Consoles are very expensive to make, something David Reeves, former deputy president of SCE worldwide, knows all too well. Now COO of Capcom, he talks about a beautiful vision of the future, where companies like Sony and Microsoft work together to make consoles.
“When you’re on the first-party side, you realize how really, really expensive it is to develop a platform. Whether it’s PS3, or Xbox 360 or even Wii, they cost millions – maybe not billions, but absolutely millions, said Reeves. You don’t know when to put that stake in the ground of technology and move on. You know, say ‘that’s enough’.
“Eventually, it may just become so expensive to develop that Microsoft and Sony say, ‘Okay, let’s get together.’ I’d say it’s between 10 and 15 years away, noted Reeves. That’s how long I think it will take. I don’t think it will be the next console cycle, but probably the next cycle after that, where you might have something platform-agnostic.
Of course, the gaming industry is in flux right now and it might not be Sony and Microsoft. “But it might be different players, of course, noted Reeves. It might be Google getting together with, dare I say, Microsoft, or Google with somebody else.”
Source: CVG
