David Jaffe Claims Next Console Cycle May be The Last

David Jaffe, in an interview with IGN, talked about what may be the last generation of traditional home consoles as well as the $60 standard.

Talking about the future of consoles, Jaffe thinks that “there will be really big f***ing games for them”, but the times “where you go to a store and buy your $60 games”, may come to an end after the next generation. He feels that with a game “You either get amazing gameplay, amazing experience and immersion, or you get both. The gameplay, which is the most important thing, the consumers have shown they don’t care where they get it”. He did say that consoles are still needed for “the spectacle”, I don’t know if that is true, Dead Rising on the iPhone was pretty mind blowing.

Jaffe also feels that the current model of the $60 boxed game is broken. He says that it “isn’t insightful” and that the only games that it works for are the “4 or 5 big AAA titles in the holiday”. He brings up Dead Space 2, saying that “It’s fantastic. But 3-4 hours in, I’m done”. He feels that if EA had created a smaller experience without sacrificing quality, it would have made for a better game.

Talking more about the business model of games Jaffe explained that “we’ve just gotten conditioned to think that games have to be a certain length and that’s coming from the business model. But I think that business model, with the exception of a certain few games, needs to go away”.

Although he didn’t know for sure where the future may lie, Jaffe did hint at where it may go. He said that “maybe Sony launches their kind of cloud-based OnLive system, and maybe in that system you’ve got some exclusive big games”.

Viva la cloud gaming!

via: CVG