This being Strauss Zelnick, Take-Two’s CEO, speaking to IGN on the matter. “Generally speaking, the mid-generation upgrades haven’t really changed much,” He…
The way I read it, they are saying the gameplay can’t be any different, it’ll just look better on a mid-gen refresh. Which yeah, isn’t wrong, but so what? Gameplay hasn’t evolved a ton since the PS3/360 era, we’ve got massive CPU and storage improvements this gen and it’s not like that’s brought a huge host of gameplay improvements outside of load times. For the most part all we are doing is improving graphics at this point. I don’t know that there are a ton of impossible gameplay ideas that publishers have but are just waiting for powerful enough hardware to be able to build it.
The way I read it, they are saying the gameplay can’t be any different, it’ll just look better on a mid-gen refresh. Which yeah, isn’t wrong, but so what? Gameplay hasn’t evolved a ton since the PS3/360 era, we’ve got massive CPU and storage improvements this gen and it’s not like that’s brought a huge host of gameplay improvements outside of load times. For the most part all we are doing is improving graphics at this point. I don’t know that there are a ton of impossible gameplay ideas that publishers have but are just waiting for powerful enough hardware to be able to build it.