Ds une interviex récente, molyneux s´exprime, j´en ai tiré les passages interessant donc si y´a un gars bon en Anglais, ça aiderait pas mal !
´´ GSUK: And what about costs--have the fears over escalating budgets on next-generation titles proven to be true?
PM: Costs for next-generation development have increased dramatically, certainly--we´re talking about 10s of millions of dollars to make triple-A games. But it should be remembered that there is a law of diminishing return here, so if you spend $5 million and double that to $10 million, you don´t get double the quality. This trend really can´t continue, and the industry must face the fact we need to stabilize our costs. This will mean that reuse of technology and assets needs to be much better managed.
GSUK: There seems to be a backlash mounting against the PlayStation 3, while the Wii seems to be going from strength to strength. How do you think the next-gen console war is going to stack up?
PM: Well, I have been through console wars before, but this one strikes me as particularly interesting. Nintendo has done a great job of convincing us that next gen is about game play rather than high-tech specs. Microsoft has done an incredible job of expanding games online and making them more mass market. Sony, in my view, seems it has been rather more lazy with their message. How all this pans out really depends on one thing and that is the brilliance of the titles that appear on each platform over the next two to three years. Marketing the hardware is nothing compared to the games that run on it, so I expect the system with the greatest games on it to end up on top.´´