Dyack muses about clouds, won't abandon current consoles

I'm not sure if cloud gaming will be economically viable for a while yet, but I do know that digital distribution will cause brick and mortar shops more pain as they go. So maybe he's right that investing in game stores is not such a hot idea at the moment.

"We have no intentions to stop making video games for the current consoles ... that would be nuts."

Damn that's too bad.

I think cloud computing may work in the end. Although if all think think about is money (ala. RIAA), then they are going to ruin it before it gets off the ground. They need people like the ones who make Ubuntu (Or other free Linux Distros). Or maybe the people who created the internet (Al Gore).

After Too Human, is there a market for SK games?

Still, we need more devs pushing for the next gen. This generation has been a dissapointment compared to the last.

All their post Too Human woes would go away if thwey made a damn Eternal Darkness sequel.

Cloud computing doesn't make much sense with the ISP industry wanting to move to a model where you pay for the amount of bandwidth you use. If gaming went cloud, our monthly internet bills would skyrocket.

Oh, Denis Dyack...how I loved and then loathed thee....

As long as the market is there.

Well with your 10 year dev cycle, theres time for, what, 1 more sub par video game from you guys?

I guess Dyack didn't notice that the "dumb client" system of gaming died at E3 this year when Sony and MS announced their motion input systems. See the "dumb client" idea is that you don't really need any compute power in your house, all you need is a USB jack so you can plug-in a d-pad and the USB signals are transmitted over the internet and interpreted by the game running "in the cloud".

But now all the consoles have fancy input systems which use image recognition and that means you need hardware in your house again, because sending 60fps of video upwards over the internet for recognition is not possibly with many people having such slow upload rates.

Look at Natal, if what we are told is correct, it has two video cameras plus an infrared camera's worth of data to upload and recognize.

Ah, there I go, I've honestly given this guy more attention than he deserves. He just likes the idea of OnLive because it'll make his "one console future" diatribe correct.

Hey Denis, with art such a big part of the cost of a game now and games being so expensive they become a make-or-break for companies, do you still believe a company shouldn't contract out for art?

instead of saying they should "keep doing console-based games", what they should do is "keep doing GOOD console-based games". thanks.

Take note of whatever he says, then do the opposite.

Well that settles it everyone. No Half Life Episode 3. It looks like Dycak ate Newell. :(
As a side note to prevent myself being devoured too, I did like Too Human but it needs a lot of work if there will ever be a sequel.

Man, Dennis gained a ton of weight.

I'm in the middle of playing Too Human right now wondering if there will be a Too Human 2. The story is out there...but if it truely is a trilogy they're not going to give you all the information the first time around. It's taken some time to get used to but, but the combat is passable. There is no doubt that the valkyrie death scene is annoying as all heck. Skip button next time please.

But they do have an interesting world, and like any sequal they have a chance to right their wrongs. So I am looking forward to what they can come up with for Too Human 2. Before Too Human I pretty much trusted any game they made, so I am willing to give them a second chance.