Bossa head predicts early death for PlayStation Vita
Monstermind dev believes "walled garden" hardware is destined to fail
Henrique Olifiers, founder of the social developer Bossa Studios, believes that the Vita will suffer a "horrible premature death."
In an interview with Videogamer, Olifiers stated Bossa had little interest in forthcoming hardware unless it allows users on different platforms to play together.
"I hate the fact you cannot play a game on the PS3 against the same game on the 360 or PC," he said. "Walled gardens in a world where people are freely connected all the time is just a dumb idea that limits what is achievable."
Olifiers referenced Valve's Gabe Newell, who spoke out against the "ominous" rise of closed platforms at this year's WTIA TechNW conference in Seattle.
"Valve is bang on: proprietary stuff is madness, we should be moving to more open platforms, to interoperability, bringing everyone together."
"If this is not the motto for the big console manufacturers, not only will we not be there, they're likely to die a horrible premature death, the kind of which I think the Vita will suffer from."
Bossa Studios was acquired by Shine, a TV production company, in September this year. Last week, Sony Computer Entertainment veteran Yoshifusa Hayama joined the company as creative director.
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Also, if platforms are becoming more "open" and "connected" that doesn't necessarily mean the gameplay has to be watered down.
As for the early death of PS Vita... I personally am looking forward to the Vita. Sony and third parties seem to put a lot of effort into the system and its games. If they can keep it up, I'd love to see the Vita staying for quite a while. :)
Maybe i missed the sentence in the linked article but when does Mr Olifiers say anything about depth of experience or exhilirating gameplay experiences? As far as i saw, he didn't. Besides the point that such things are totally subjective (as anyone who has a relative who has been absorbed by Solitaire or Sudoku for hours can attest) and so you can't really say that gaming on the Vita will be better/more absorbing for someone else than something on a mobile phone/tablet, his point that "if they want more focus on tech specs rather than usability and accessibility" is a valid potential criticism. I mean, i'm sure everyone here loves Nintendo friend codes.
If he's arguing the former, didn't we already discuss that in the tech review on PC graphics? While Xbox gamers may not have any advantage over PS3 gamers, would Microsoft and Sony ever allow that? I can see cross console between PC and any other console for any cooperative part of a game (i.e. Portal 2), but competitive mode would be far too heavily weighted towards PC gamers.
Vita will likely enjoy similar success as the PSP in my opinion. At best, its innovations are cousins of already existing innovations of yesteryear (yes - I meant to say year) and it is set up begging for endless, unimaginitive PS3 ports. When you can already get excellent experiences, designed specifically for mobile gaming at a few euro/pounds just by using your smart phone, the 300 initial fork out for the Vita, then the memory cards, then the software is ..hmm...optimistic.
Predicting the death of a console before its release is always pure speculation and a mere coincidence if the predictions happen to be true.
If this person was a member of SONY then maybe I could trust it a bit more. But so far, whatever happens we'll see.
i do recall that Dungeon Defenders has cross gaming with the pc ps3 and maybe phone copys.