GDCE Keynote on The Future of Games

Gamasutra is reporting on Sony Executive VP Phil Harrison's keynote at the Game Developer's Conference Europe. He discusses where he thinks games are, and should be, going. From the article: "We have to continue to put creativity first, otherwise we will turn into a formulaic industry. It's up to us all to... try to put innovation foremost, otherwise the consumers will go elsewhere. If we're not exciting these eyeballs better than anyone else, people will go watch Lost."

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Now, I'm a bit behind, so maybe someone can help:

[iainl]

We need to innovate or people will just watch Lost?

Now, I've only seen the first episode before giving up, but does Lost turn into something other than a formulaic twist-turny too-clever-by-half 24-alike with far, far too many scenes stolen wholesale from Jurassic Park sequels?

Because scoring a big hit by cobbling together bits and pieces of other successful things seems to be _exactly_ what Lost is doing.