It is undeniable that the consoles of this generation do not hold up as well to the tech of their day as consoles have in the past- usually, new console launches far exceeded anything that the arcade or PC market could produce in the past, at least for a few years. But the PS4 and Xbox One both launched as, at best, mid range PC equivalents even when they released in 2013- and they have only grown more and more outdated since.
But EA’s CFO Blake Jorgensen thinks otherwise- he thinks the power the consoles afford developers is fantastic, and more than enough.
“The power of the new consoles is fantastic. I think software makers are just now starting to truly harness the power. The first year, you had people testing and pushing, but now I think you’re starting to see, particularly this fall and winter, a lot really exciting pieces of software in the industry that are taking the processing power of the console,” Jorgensen said at the UBS Global Tech Conference.
I hope that, if this is the case, we see more kinds of gameplay experiences that we could not have seen on the previous generation of hardware- barring maybe a handful of games, everything else so far feels like it could just as easily been accomplished on previous generation hardware, with less shiny graphics.
