Mon, Nov 16, 2009 | 15:16 GMT
Pitchford: Crytek, id not prepared for “the longest console generation”
Speaking with OXM, Gearbox head Randy Pitchford has had a pop at Crytek and id software, stating they aren’t prepared for what Pitchford has called “the longest console generation we’ve seen.”
“Anyone that built their strategies around the last generation timing, and is trying to employ those strategies today, is either being forced to adapt very quickly or is risking failure,” said Pitchford.
“Some people have invested a lot going to a place that’s too far, and the customers aren’t ready for that yet because they don’t have the hardware for it. And so they can’t find the market. I was thinking of Crytek, they couldn’t find a market because they made a game [Crysis] that very few people could play. I’m not putting words in their mouth, I remember reading something publically where they said they couldn’t put this on consoles because of the hardware…
“It’s not just Crytek who misjudged it. We see the id guys talking continuously about this, [with Rage] – ‘well, Sony will have a Blu-Ray and I don’t know what we’ll do on the 360, maybe we’ll have three DVD’s… if the publisher will let us do that, maybe we’ll errrrahh I dunno.’ Because they’re in this kind of “generation plus” mode, and like nobody knows what the generation beyond this one is going to look like.”
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Tags: crytek, id software, randy pitchford
11 comments
#1
blackdreamhunk
16/11/09, 3:22 pm
crysis still sold over 2 mill and it’s still selling. When crysis came out alot of pc gamers had to up grade give them time.
You I would agree with this game dev for the must part.
#2
reask
16/11/09, 3:22 pm
Freedom stain put this in news thread a week ago.
Anyway congrats on the award.
#3
blackdreamhunk
16/11/09, 3:24 pm
I would also like to say this console generation is done.
#4
Anders
16/11/09, 3:28 pm
You would like to say that, wouldn’t you?
#5
endgame
16/11/09, 4:36 pm
and i would also like to say that YOU CAN PLAY THE F**KING GAME ON A 4 YEAR OLD PC, ON MEDIUM DETAILS. christ, is it that hard!?
#6
Quiiick
16/11/09, 5:30 pm
Hey Pitchford, every dumb 12-yearold knows what the generation beyond this one is going to look like: Bigger, better, more bad ass! Like always …
It’s every kids wet dream.
#7
DarkElfa
16/11/09, 5:54 pm
Is Pitchford ever going to shut the fuck up or is he going to continue to have diarrhea of the mouth until someone blows his shit up? Seriously, I’d like to take Randy Pitchford, shove him up Michael Pachter’s ass and launch both of those “shit don’t stink” know-it-alls into the sun.
#8
Ianman
16/11/09, 7:40 pm
Yeah he seems to have a remark for everybody else. He should just concentrate on his own stuff. What is the point of commenting on the apparent failure of other studios? It isn’t going to change anything and it only makes him like a know it all. I used to think that Gearbox was cool but after the first Brothers in Arms it has just gone downhill so instead of dissing others he should concentrate on improving his own stuff.
#9
freedoms_stain
16/11/09, 8:09 pm
DarkElfa, now there’s a gaming related trip I’d donate money to.
Maybe big Gabe N can use that Aussie money to get it started, sounds perfectly chartiable to me
#10
Goliath
16/11/09, 8:48 pm
Did Dennis Dyak somehow tranform into Randy Pitchford over the past few weeks? My God this guy like the sound of his own voice.
#11
DarkElfa
17/11/09, 12:17 am
Thanks Freedom, perhaps after we do the Pitchford -> Pachter maneuver we can find the VG censors in Australia, shove the Pitchford/Pachter combo up their asses and launch the whole thing into the sun.