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by Aaron Linde, Jan 11, 2008 9:16am PSTOutspoken God of War and Twisted Metal creator David Jaffe (pictured left) is the latest industry figure to show support of a single console model for the gaming industry.
"We have [an industry standard] with DVD, we had it with VHS," argues Jaffe. "Sure, you miss out on a cool feature here, a neat feature there. But weÂ’ve gotten used to this in so many other hardware products and—in doing so—reaped the many more benefits of a single system."
In a direct response to a counterpoint issued by Game|Life, Jaffe concedes his belief that "80% of the game innovation I care about comes via design, not tech."
Jaffe's suggestion that the industry move towards a single console hardware scheme settles him among other proponents of the model, including Denis Dyack and John Romero. Advocates of the model argue that a movement towards a single console would ease development and resolve fragmentation of the current console market.
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We could also find ourselves in a model where we have local computer grids in our homes, where we choose to network all of our local resources in different ways. Hardware companies distinguish themselvs not on processor speed but on the ease of use of their network computing.
Nobody would dispute that big advances need to happen on the content generation side, but it's foolish to think that it will stop on the hardware side. You are basically saying that hardware people will give up on trying to sell hardware and allow it to become generic and indistinguishable. I doubt that will happen until computer start designing computers and it all gets taken out of our hands.
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