Remaining Fantasy 16 Producer Naoki Yoshida Would Quite There Was Solely One Recreation Platform, Making Everybody’s Lives Simpler

So long as there have been console platforms, there have been console wars, individuals who really feel the necessity to ‘defend’ a company due to their alternative of gaming platform, and their perception that they need to justify this option to others.

Sadly console wars have lengthy been a cultural results of simply having a number of platforms, although Remaining Fantasy 16 producer Naoki Yoshida needs issues have been completely different.

Yoshida, in response to an interview with a Taiwanese outlet translated by IGN, would as an alternative fairly that there was only one gaming platform, for everybody, and it might make everybody’s lives simpler.

Now Yoshida wasn’t instantly speaking about how this could take away the necessity for any warring between followers of computer systems in several colored containers, however it might positively be a part of the end result on this planet Yoshida pitches.

That is additionally coming from somebody who beforehand hasn’t been shy about how he feels about dangerous actors in on-line areas.

“Recreation platforms…I most likely shouldn’t say this, however I want there was just one. It could be higher for each the builders and the gamers.”

If everybody performed on one platform, nobody could be barred from enjoying one of the best video games just because two corporations made a deal for exclusivity. First-party exclusives could be pointless.

Infinite comparisons between recreation efficiency on one platform to a different would stop, and everybody, in every single place would simply need issues to be higher for the neighborhood as a complete, as an alternative of people that will be simply discovered on-line that spew speech implying or instantly stating they need issues to be worse for the opposite facet.

Builders would even be freed from the burden of attempting to make their video games work on seven completely different platforms at a time, and as an alternative be capable to give attention to making the expertise you get one of the best it might probably completely be.

After all it’s value stating that Yoshida says this whereas lots of the video games he’s labored on have been PlayStation console exclusives, most of which nonetheless stay as such.

Nevertheless it’s uncertain that any deal relating to exclusivity is as much as Yoshida. He can also’t undue the historical past or the circumstances that make console platforms exist.

Yoshida’s speaking a couple of fictional world, although it’s one which doesn’t sound too dangerous for a gamer.

Supply – [IGN]