EAR Roundtable: Next-Gen Consoles
It’s that time of month again. No, not that time, but the time for our monthly roundtable podcast. This week Kefkataran, bapenguin, and agentgray were joined by Luke from Game Addict Hotline, mightbe, and The Iron Weasel. We give our take on the state of affiars in the next-gen market, what we expect in the future, and some past job experiences (listen to the whole thing, baby!).
Kefkataran’sMom bakes the best brownies.
June 15th, 2006 at 9:18 am
[…] Looks like I’m getting to be a popular guest on the podcasting scene. I just did another roundtable with KefkaTaran, bapenguin, agentgray, mightbe, and The Iron Weasel from the Evil Avatar Fourums. This show talked about Next Generation gaming and had a some talk about brownies. Here is the show. […]
June 15th, 2006 at 4:50 pm
Hey there, folks at Evil Avatar-
First up, thanks for the kind words about our ‘cast over at Gamasutra in your Simon Carless interview show. Next up, just wanted to give a shout out to my erstwhile acquaintences, Schuster and Stapley. I attended DigiPen with Mike back in ‘99-’00. And Luke and I correspond regularly about all things podcasting. So hey guys! Good to hear ya!
Next, I found the analogy between the next-gen consoles and the high school scene to be pretty priceless. Good on that! In a Boomtown.net interview, Hideo Kojima equated each of the next-gen consoles to an experience dining out:
“PS3 would be like a dinner that you only have once a year or twice a year on your anniversary etc. Xbox 360 will still be a special dinner so you might go there two or three times a month on the weekend or something. Revolution is the kind of great dinner that you have everyday at your home. What I want to emphasize is that all three are dinners meaning that they have a salad, they have a soup and maybe have a dessert but they are a little differently, maybe other dinners have two salads or two appetizers or maybe extra coffee on top of that. The point is that they are all individualistic dinners. So if they are all dinners, like a steak dinner, the choice is up to the users and the game designers at the same time.
If the game creators and the users want to have a great steak for their anniversary, they go maybe to PS3. But if they want great dinner, great steak with their family, a little bit more casual during the weekends, they might select Xbox 360. Or why not have a great steak at your house everyday, they might choose Revolution. So my impression of the battle between the consoles is, it’s not about what kind of dinner it is. It’s more about how much the dinner will be. Will it be worth the cost of being served? Or where can I have this dinner - number of restaurants, is it near my house or do I have to take a cab or train or bus?”
You can check out the rest of that interview here:
http://ps2.boomtown.net/en_uk/articles/art.view.php?id=8293
Keep up the good work.
-Tom Kim
June 21st, 2006 at 12:29 pm
Hey, I’m the podcast producer, not Nat. *lol*
Like it matters, I guess.
June 22nd, 2006 at 2:15 pm
Hey there-
I got Rob Schuster’s name wrong! I had it down on my earlier post as “Mike.” Brain fart. Anyway, when you go through this submission to approve this reply, maybe you can fix my typo. No need to post this entry.
-Tom Kim