Sega’s Toshihiro Nagoshi has helped create Yakuza and Binary Domain, so he knows all about AAA development on consoles. However, his expectations of where he’s expecting the industry to go is in the direction of mobile phones, if only because of simplicity in the controls.
“Well, the first thing is that consoles – PS3, PS4, Xbox 360-2 – the market for those will get smaller, and the main market will become portable games,” said Nagoshi. “I don’t think consoles will disappear, but more and more people will use home PCs for gaming, and a long time in the future it will just be PCs and mobile phones, and eventually mobiles will become just as powerful as games consoles.”
“The most important and unavoidable thing is the interface. Right now, that means either buttons or touchscreens,” he added. “Those are the only two interfaces we have. I think it’s strange the number of buttons has increased and never decreased. So that means we need to reset things, somehow. Like I was saying earlier, I think the answer lies in some as-yet unknown third type of interface.”
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