Assassin's Creed 3 dev talks next gen struggles

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Assassin's Creed 3's project lead thinks the move to next generation consoles will be an "interesting hardware transition", as production costs counter the increase in graphical capabilities.

Creative director of the blockbuster, Alex Hutchinson, believes that the "jump" to new hardware will offer "a little bit more detail", but that with such a transition "comes higher cost".

"So in a weird way we're at that point where everything that is a plus is also a minus because we have to pay for it," explained Mr Hitchinson. "I think it's going to be a very interesting hardware transition for the business."

He also believes that the distance between blockbusters and "lower budget games" will grow even wider, citing a number of studios that collapsed under the strain of moving from PS1 to PS2.

Assassin's Creed 3 is out on October 31.

Source: Digital Spy

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I'm very interested to see what's in store for next-gen with Sony and Microsoft.
I think he makes fair point, as gamers we expect ever more beautiful graphics. It we don't really want to pay for the extras, obviously they cost more for the studios to produce so we will see a balance between costs and hardware utilization
It's interesting that Ubisoft jumps on new Nintendo hardware like it does. I guess it finds the hardware accessible, easy to develop for, and an easy way to make profitable games. It's almost like having a monopoly if you can be the No.1 third-party publisher for a console at launch.

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