"Dispelling the Myth"

An excerpt from a rather interesting article in the most recent game informer (June 2013) about PC vs next generation.[ul]

[li]"DISPELLING THE MYTH (title): When Sony revealed the PS4, I read some of the comments regarding the console online and noticed that one persistent myth kept appearing - current PC games are already next generation. That's simply not true.
The reality is that high-end PC is a small market for developers and publishers, although it has seen some significant growth over the last few years. I played Crysis 3, and it's a beautiful game. However, at its core Crysis 3 was also designed to run on current consoles and less powerful PCs. Every graphical enhancement you see on a high-end PC, no matter how pretty it is, is just eye candy. Crytek could not design levels and enemies that would impact gameplay unless those elements would also work on Xbox 360 and PS3. Core design has to work on all systems, which limits developers working on today's consoles compared to those who are working on next-generation consoles.

Games like Diablo III, Watch Dogs, and Destiny are going to look better on next generation of consoles. However, they are not, at their core, going to be very different today's games unless exclusive content is released for the new consoles. For example, Destiny's PS4-exclusive content might be something that pushes gameplay that wouldn't be possible on current-gen consoles."[/li][/ul]

(written by Torbjorn Olsson)

If you have a subscription you can read the rest. Thoughts?

 

Well for example on the last generation, he uses physics based gameplay as an example of one of the things that separates this gen from the last gen. I'd argue that motion input games would be another. Until we see what the developers come up with, we probably wont know for sure.