{"id":522,"date":"2004-12-17T08:08:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-17T08:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/?p=522"},"modified":"2004-12-17T08:08:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-17T08:08:00","slug":"consoles-bad-for-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/2004\/12\/17\/consoles-bad-for-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Consoles &#8211; Bad for Development?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting quote I found over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idlethumbs.net\/\">Idle Thumbs<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>With the introduction of next-generation consoles such as the Xbox 2 and PS3, software design houses will be required to put more manpower and capital into developing new games to cope with demand. So I think that there will be no room for small-scale design houses to survive in the software market for these consoles.<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>-Hisao Oguchi, Sega Chief<\/p>\n<p>I see this as leading to an increase (if that&#8217;s possible) of licenses and sequels for the consoles and the PC could be a hotbed of innovation.  All the small studios will be forced to develop for the PC only and will likely need to be very original in order to succeed.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting quote I found over at Idle Thumbs: With the introduction of next-generation consoles such as the Xbox 2 and PS3, software design houses will be required to put more manpower and capital into developing new games to cope with demand. So I think that there will be no room for small-scale design &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/2004\/12\/17\/consoles-bad-for-development\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Consoles &#8211; Bad for Development?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.steve-ince.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}