Silicon Knights On Gaming Consolidation, Standardization

Thanks to 1UP for their interview with Denis Dyack of GameCube developers Silicon Knights, as he discusses former product Eternal Darkness and forthcoming conversion Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes. Dyack advances the theory that "...you'll see more collaborations, you're going to see a lot of mergers with developers... When they standardized the movie camera in, say, 1950, all the movie companies that told good stories became dominant, the major players that we know now... The same thing is going to happen in our industry." He further suggests that standardization of gaming hardware platform is "inevitable", saying "commoditization of technology" is coming to games, and comments: "Nintendo as a group has always emphasized the content of games, because that's where we think the value is, and we think that's what will become dominant."

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Re:Bottom Line

[DenisDyack]

Bottom line is basically, "Sega had the right idea and expect Nintendo to do the same."

Actually, I am not saying anything like this at all and I do not know what Sega was thinking nor I am recommending we do anything like they did.

In you comments you focus on MS's hardware which ironically is exactly the opposite of what I am trying to say. I am saying that as gaming technology evolves it will become less important.

In a nutshell I am saying in the future the hardware will not matter.

Denis.