Crytek: Blocking Used Games Market ‘Would Be Absolutely Awesome’
In a recent interview on CVG, Crytek’s director of creative development Rasmus Hojengaard detailed his hopes for the next generations of consoles. First he covered how he would prefer to work with hardware that made the developmental process itself less difficult. As many of us have been made aware over the years by various development studios, some of the current consoles (most notably the PS3), are extremely cumbersome to develop for and can cause needless strain on the creative process. He said: [quote]The worst thing that can happen is they make something that’s very complex for developers, regardless of how awesome it might theoretically be. So getting hardware that allows you to quickly get prototypes up and running, and any kind of scalability they can offer will be great as well, as long as everyone has that scalability and not just a select few.[/quote] Rasmus then went on to talk about the recent widespread rumors that have been popping up lately about Microsoft and Sony implementing a new system to block