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Reliable information about the next generation of consoles has been coming at a trickle as we approach E3 2013. Recently, Epic Games vice president Mark Rein told attendees at the UK Game Horizon conference that both Microsoft and Sony are “going heavily” into free-to-play models for games being released on their respective new machines. Shuhei Yoshida, president of Sony Worldwide Studios, made a similar statement to Game Informer, saying that “We are developing a free-to-play type of game, but we haven’t announced it yet.” No word on FTP offerings for the new Xbox, which will make its first official appearance at a Microsoft press conference on May 21.
Source: Joystiq
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When someone says FTP, I think file transfer protocol.
In any case, I’m hoping on two things for next gen consoles:
1. Heavily concentrate on digital distribution of all games and (most importantly),
2. Apply heavy price discounts to those games (e.g. prices relfected in Steam, Gamersgate, Greenmangaming, etc).
If that can be done, I bet piracy will go down and game sales will go up. I can’t even remember the last time I used my optical drive to install software on my PC. The same should be done against consoles.
I am not into FTP if it means any one of these things: always online, multi player only, MMO.
Not interested in any of that.
FTP doesn’t do much for me, but it makes sense to have it available on consoles as well as PCs. Some FTP games do fremium right, but a many are just pay2win (with varying degrees of shamelessness), and that sends me packing. Though, I can see certain MOBAs/ARPGs would benefit from being on a console with console controls.
I just hope this doesn’t mean that the single player aspect of games is going to go neglected next generation. I don’t always want to spend my gaming time in an online fragbox or group grind-fest.
I laugh at these stupid, greedy companies. Please, drive more gamers back to the PC and render yourselves irrelevant. We’ll start seeing more games born on PC and taking full advantage of the superior hardware and user experience.
Well, I already have plans to get the new PS4. F2P is a nice bonus for something I had already planned on getting.
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