„More of the same,” Atsushi Inaba (Astral Chain, Nier Automata, Okami) said about the PlayStation 5 and the Xbox Series X. He explained it in detail.

Last year, the head of PlatinumGames said that the two next-gen consoles did not impress him that much and that the new consoles will be more of the same as the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One. He also touched this subject in his interview with VGC. Inaba said that his comment painted him as some kind of a snob, but he clarified himself: he’s excited that the PlayStation 5 and the Xbox Series X will allow him to do more in terms of technology and graphics, he believes the upcoming console generation change isn’t going to be as dramatic. (A huge leap could be considered between the PlayStation 2/Xbox to PlayStation 3/Xbox 360. The latter pair brought HD to the table, although there were a few PS2/X titles that offered such resolution.)

„If you think back to the generation between Super Nintendo and PlayStation, and how we went from pixel art to 3D polygons… nobody could have ever imagined that a few years prior. When that stuff started coming out people were just blown away: they weren’t ready for it, they weren’t anticipating it… it was just so new. I feel that the announcements that we’ve had for recent consoles generations, while all good and interesting, and of course I’m happy for us as developers to have better technology to work on… it’s a ‘perceivable’ future. There’s not the extreme surprise or the unexpected quality that I felt from the leap to previous consoles. Now I see the announcements and I think, ‘Oh, that’s cool’ and then the next minute I think, ‘Hmmm… what should I watch on Netflix tonight?’”, Inaba said.

He did clarify that it is his personal opinion, although from the gaming industry’s perspective, the PlayStation 5 and the Xbox Series X look promising, and he added that neither console has been properly revealed yet, so he could be surprised yet: „We haven’t seen everything from next-gen at this point, I think, and it’s still very likely that there could be a quality like that in these consoles that are going to kind of be a game-changer, that’s going to change how games could be played, and if that is the case, then maybe they’ll blow me away. So I don’t want to sound like, ‘Hey, I know everything about the new consoles and they’re boring.’ But with the information that I have now, I haven’t seen any extremely big surprises,” he added.

He called the Nintendo Switch a prime example of a console manufacturer trying something bold and new: „The Nintendo Switch was very groundbreaking in how it was able to just to take a home console and make it portable. It’s something that you hadn’t seen a lot of people doing before: it took this wall, that perhaps a lot of people didn’t know even existed, and broke it down,” he said.

Fair enough.

Source: GameSpot

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