There are ”still things that we can do” with them, and they have a ”healthy installed base” with wanted services ”like Live and so forth.”
”I think all the developers out there - or most of us at least - we’re absolutely in no hurry to move onto a new console cycle. There are still things that we can do with the current generation of hardware for the 360 and PlayStation 3,” Remedy managing director Matias Myllyrine told GamesIndustry.biz in an interview.
”We have a healthy installed base, and gamers have gotten a lot of the services that they wanted from stuff like Live and so forth. I don’t think a leap is called for - especially with Natal and the other devices coming out, hopefully that will extend the life cycle.”
Xbox 360 exclusive Alan Wake has been in development at Remedy for the past six years, and in fact was completed last June but the bosses wanted the utmost quality.
”We had the whole game fully playable around E3 last year, and we’ve just been balancing, tuning, polishing and iterating in post-production since. Games are fairly expensive, and if you put down 60 Euros, the Remedy brand has to stand for something - otherwise people aren’t going to come back,” explained Myllyrine.
”I could get on my post-production soap box… how many games have you played that you see there’s the potential of something really wonderful there, but it’s not fully envisioned?”
It’s thanks to time working with Rockstar on Max Payne that helped them strive for the best quality they can produce, and settle for nothing less.
”Working with Rockstar - those guys are terribly passionate, uncompromising, and there’s a huge attention to detail in the things they do. I have a huge amount of respect for Sam Houser and his teams, and that applies to Blizzard as well.”
”Not to sell us short, but those guys are much larger organisations - we’re still a small developer trying to do something unique and focused, and hopefully we’re doing one or two things that nobody else is doing, and being positioned differently so we don’t go head-to-head.” Alan Wake releases exclusively on Xbox 360 May 21st in Europe.
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