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Rainbird on 11 April 2011
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CGI-Quality said:
Rainbird said:

And that I don't disagree with. I do however disagree that it's a good idea for them to lock themselves to one platform(holder) for all eternity. Maybe Microsoft's next console will be far better suited for what QD wants to do, or Nintendo's will.

The last thing I want to see is QD being locked down to a platform, if there are platforms much more suited for their goals out there. And right now, the PS3 is a great match for them, which is why it's great that they're making PS3 exclusive games with Sony. But that's only the way things are now.

That could be said for any dev they pick up (Media Mloecule/Gierrilla Games/Naughty Dog). Obviously, all these devs were doing things that helped the Sony brand (at the time). It doesn't appear that any of those were a blunder, and because of such, people know if Sony picks them up, their games will likely not suffer for it.

The future holds an uncertainty, in business you act now or don't act at all. Who knows what the next guy's console will be like, or when it will launch? That's all uncertain. I just don't see an acquisition as "backing Cage/Quantic into a corner" and judging from recent chatter (in my link), he seems quite happy and grateful to and with Sony.

And I totally agree with you, there's no reason why he shouldn't be happy with Sony, and many of the developers Sony have picked up have been succesful, but I don't think buying QD will be good for the studio in the long term.

I see the next generation as being fought over interface rather than how powerful your hardware is, and if that holds true, QD should be free to choose where to put its games. I'd love to see where they could take Kinect for example, but that's unlikely to happen. If Microsoft delivers a big improvement on Kinect and brings things like bio feedback to the NextBox, the NextBox could seem like a perfect fit for QD.

Saying they're being backed into a corner is probably a bit too drastic, but a buyout would certainly lose them options, and I don't think that's a good thing in the long term.