One of the well known names in the PlayStation community is David Jaffe, who was the creative director for the God of War franchise before leaving SCEA to create his own studio. Jaffe is currently the head of Incognito Entertainment.
What makes him commendable of mention at the moment is because he to, is throwing his support in the bag for a highly debated universal gaming console. In his blog, Jaffe explains,
“Can anyone explain to me how having one console would be bad for gamers? Or game developers for that matter?,”
“I don’t understand this in regards to console hardware. One game publisher would be bad. One giant game developer would be bad. I get how those things would hurt gamers. But why would one unified hardware platform?
“We have it with DVD, we had it with VHS. We have it with televisions (in the sense that- for the most part- every TV is capable of broadcasting the same signal). So what do we lose by having it for game consoles?”
“Sure you miss out on some features that may otherwise be available if another console was there to compete. But this is always the way when one format wins over another and becomes the standard. And for those few features you lose, don’t you make up for it in so many other ways?”
Furthermore, Jaffe states that by having this universal console, it would benefit the gamer because software makers will all be vying for sales on this one platform, thus creating competition which will in the end benefit the gamer.
“… You get more competition on the software side – which is, to me, where it counts – because there is more competition to be the best on a single system instead of content creators splintering and never ever worrying about competing with two out of the three groups.
“For me, those are much bigger reasons to want a single console. Sure, you miss out on a cool feature here, a neat feature there. But we’ve gotten used to this in so many other hardware products and – in doing so- reaped the many more benefits of a single system.”