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18% Of Developers Are Reportedly Working On NEXT-GEN Games
- Thread starter RevengeTaken
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You must have missed the first couple of years of this gen.
Ah i see. I still can't get over the fact that we're getting such a monstrous CPU setup in the next gen consoles.
This is going to be so wild. Xbox 3 or PS5. What a time to be alive
They polled developers. Being GDC they have a list of historical attendees, and they asked 4000 of them. (more, but 4000 replied)
[edit] I clicked on the link in the link, and got a PDF full of fun numbers back. Probably a virus too, because their site is mis-configured.
I would have expected a larger percentage. But then again it makes sense, a lot of companies are also going to support their games for years to come, so they are not technically next-gen games (even though I expect them to run on the new consoles as well).
We're about to go from low budget Jaguar CPUs to Zen2. It's going to be big.
I would argue that we're going to see a bigger jump from the PS4/Xbox One --> next-gen than we did going from the 360/PS3 to the PS4/Xbox One. It's really such a monumental leap in CPU power that we're going to see massive changes to the very core nature of games - larger, but more complex and engaging worlds. Superior AI, increased numbers of enemies/objects on screen at a given time, etc.
Next gen is here, we're gonna leave this old ass laptop cpu then
They probably have ballpark specs to target with. That Harry Potter leak might be a next gen game due to the animation and physics being outside of normal.
Don't get the whining about cross-gen, makes the transition more affordable to smaller Devs and doesn't leave a potential 200+ million console gamers money on the table.
I think that's' the Switch effect, no one wants to miss that train, also PS4 selling so well it would be a shame to just throw that install base out particularly if the bump in graphics is not that noticeable
People should expect at least 2 years of cross gen titles. All generations had a 2 years minimum, and probably because the architecture we will see multiple cross gen titles on next years.
Exclusive games when you have backward compatibly, is pretty stupid economically for third parties.
Nope, games and platforms should be completely irrelevant, a game should target the most popular current systems not just "next gen".
That's exactly what I do. I don't buy dream or hope, when the library is mature enough I will jump in. I did it for this generation and the previous one. You, day one folks, will beta test it for me :)
As mentioned in the article, 37% of them couldn't (or wouldn't) respond, so there is indeed a good chance the actual number is higher. The question is by how much.
I'm not so sure, how many true Next Gen titles did we get with the Xbox One and PS4 launch? Barely any, most of them were ports from the last generation, I don't consider crossgen titles nextgen cause they still run off of oldgen engines so they work fine on the lastgen consoles too.
Besides: if you wanted to as a developer, you could be developing nextgen titles for two or three years by now, thanks to the PC. Just look at CD Projekt Red for example ;)
Or fighting with 100s enemies on screen with actual, non-scripted NPC battles including real-time aerial dogfights taking place and the game keeping track of all the casualties while you're focused on something else in a single-player campaign with lots more going on.
Probably any AMD X86/X64 CPU with 8 Cores/16 Threads, so Ryzen or Ryzen 2 comes to mind. Sure you won't code to the metal as a developer this early in the game but that isn't needed for the first batch of Next Gen Titles to blow us away anyway. The X86 64Bit CPU is something developers have worked with since 2003, when intel and AMD came up with their Desktop 64Bit CPUs.
I'd say it's reasonable to assume at least 50% are working on next-gen games.
It's totally going to be a repeat of PS4 Pro and the beginning of this gen. Lots of cross-gen titles and the "real" next-gen games only start coming in a year or two after launch.