Ubisoft Already Preparing for New Hardware
by eXophase Mirror on Apr.30, 2009 at 12:48 pm, under Gaming | Thread ID: 2750
Speaking in a recent interview with Gamasutra, Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot went on record to state that the company has already taken the liberty of planning ahead for future console and handheld iterations. Guillemot acknowledges that maintaining a proactive outlook is essential to coping with this ever-changing landscape.
[We need to get ready for the future generation of consoles. In the next few years, there will be new home and handheld consoles, and if you don't invest... you will not be able to cope with both [the existing and new generation consoles].
This is just smart business: staying on your toes is smart, especially with the increased popularity of digital distribution for content delivery. However, at the moment Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo have yet to lay out definitive plans regarding future hardware. It seems a given that we’ll see something within the next five years, though.
Ubisoft’s Guillemot: Prepare For New Hardware ‘In The Next Few Years’ [Gamasutra]
Ubisoft Already Preparing for New Hardware [eXophase.com]
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April 30th, 2009 at 8:07 pm
I think at the moment, the only thing you can do is start developing next-generation game engines which take advantage of up to 16 cores, as well as many-core parallel processors like the GPU. Right now, there probably isn't much else you can do, as no-one knows what the next generation holds more specifically.
I think the biggest wildcard is the Wii. The Wii, quite obviously, can't afford to go another generation with a small power increase, technology really will have moved on by that time, a 1.5Ghz processor won't cut it. But, how far will it go? Will it have a console that's similar to the XBOX 360 in processing power, or will it try to match the power of the Playstation 4 and the third XBOX?
April 30th, 2009 at 9:54 pm
I argee with Teej
nintendo needs to get graphical
April 30th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
Ubisoft Is, and will remain on my shitlist until splinter cell: Conviction is released.