Spector: Industry mustn't throw away its history
Warms against alienating gamers who have grown up with the video game industry.
Warren Spector, creator of System Shock and Deus Ex, has warned that the video game industry must be careful not to throw away its entire history because of possible pressures to create the next big thing - motion controls.
"I think it's kind of weird...that we've sort of said, 'We've got 20, 30 years of people learning how to do this - sitting on their couch and having a good time, and knowing where the buttons are - and we're saying 'You've got to stand up and wave around and gesture,'" said Spector during the 'Lunch With Luminaries' event at GDC 2010.
"We're in the process of throwing away people - kids, adults - who know this stuff," he warned, pointing to possible outside pressures to create the next big thing.
"There's a tendency to want to see seismic shifts, to want to see radical change, and we have to be careful not to throw the baby out with the bathwater," he said.
"I don't know if we want to throw away our entire history because we want to use gestural controls. I hope we keep our perspective a little more rational."
Despite his motion control concerns, Spector is embracing the technology with Epic Mickey on Wii, a title he admitted to "loving" being a part of.
Via Gamasutra
User Comments
elvis
So far the list is about 30 developers long for those currently developing for the move (or whatever its name will be next week) but if they do clock in at about £70 will everyone really be rushing out to get one? Many console people like to play games communaly so that takes it up to £130-£150 for a pair.
Plus picture it, you get in from a night at the pub and fancy a game of something, do you play the active game or fire up the one that needs the pad?
Clockpunk
Viva la controller!