WHAT OPPORTUNITIES DO YOU SEE AVAILABLE TO DEVELOPERS WITH THE PS4'S NEW FEATURES?
Rebellion CTO Chris Kingsley
"The new controller has some great new features that we’re playing around with - it’s early days but we’ve got lots of ideas. Being able to play remotely on Vita could be brilliant too."
"And of course there’s cloud gaming which is still a bit of a nebulous concept at the moment as it means many different things to different people. There are so many opportunities out there! We’re like kids in a toy shop and it’s playtime."
Codemasters senior executive producer Clive Moody
"The new pad’s great and we’re currently figuring out what it may offer racing games. That it has motion tracking built in may be one opportunity, we’ve looked at concepts to implement motion-only control into racing titles in the past but it comes back to having something physical, that gives players feedback such as vibration, in your hand that relates most naturally to the racing experience of having something physical such as a steering wheel in your hand.
"For us, connectivity plays a hugely important part of the next-gen racing experience. We want to make it easier for people to share the experiences of their games and we’ve featured a YouTube share in our titles since DiRT 3 and that will continue and evolve, especially through a new level of integration with our RaceNet platform."
Climax Studios CEO Simon Gardner
"There are lots of features that it is too early for us to comment on, but I would say that in our opinion it lifts the bar and is significantly better than the current PS3 offering. It has a better approach to downloads and updates. The potential of streaming is exciting. Connectivity via Mobile devices should lead to even more ways to creatively interact with the PS4."
Mojang business developer Daniel Kaplan
"I'm a bit disappointed that the gamepad is not so elegantly designed, since it looks like they have crammed in everything in a small space.
"I'm really looking forward to the recording features. Video recording is something that has been huge for Minecraft on YouTube and I hope that it will be a great success for other developers too. I'm still quite uncertain about the cloud gaming features but if they can pull it off, it will be great."
Gearbox Software FX artist Nick Peterson
"As for the social aspect, I don't really care about it personally. I'm sure some will, but I also wonder if it is really as big as people claim it is or will be on consoles.
"It seems to me most peoples' social sphere sticks to Facebook and not much else at all. PlayStation Home was a flop, the social tools for the Vita don't seem to be used often, and honestly, I get tired of seeing and hearing 14 year old kids mouthing off at everyone when I play online."
Four Door Lemon owner Simon Barratt
"The Share and other Gaikai based aspects of the PS4 are really interesting and if implemented well will be a massive boost to developers in terms of the social media promotion of their games, you only need to look at the success of many gaming YouTube channels to see that."
Lucid Games founder Nick Davies
"There's a lot going on with the new controller but I think if you look at the design, from my personal opinion, I think there's a lot going on but I don't think it's strayed too far from that classic DualShock look.
"I don't think any of the features get in the way of the others, I think the touchpad is interseting, and games can use it. It's not going to alienate the more traditional fans who just want their dualsticks, four face buttons and the D-pad. It looks quite tightly and smartly designed. You can cram alot of features in without each one compromising the other, which I think is pretty clever."
Air-Edel's Chris Green
"On an audio and music side of things the inclusion of a speaker in the new DualShock 4 controller, I mean I'm sure the touchscreen will be fun too, but the speaker means that we should be able to do some innovative and exciting things with audio coming from the controller, similar to what we saw on the Wii in games like Zelda or No More Heroes, but hopefully take it a bit further."
