'Consoles won't go away' says Warren Spector

GDCA lifetime achievement award recipient predicts 'increasing stratification'

Warren Spector, creator of Deus Ex and the recipient of a lifetime achievement award at this years Game Developer Choice Awards, says that consoles are here to stay, despite increasing competition from the mobile gaming sector.
"I don't know that console gaming will ever go away," Spector told GamesIndustry Intenational(formerly gamesindustry.biz).

"I think it's going to become more - god I said I would never get into the business of prediction, but here I go - I think what you're going to see is an increasing sort of stratification, where you see fewer, much higher end games that continue to do exceptionally well on the console."
Spector says that as the cost of making competitive console games gets higher, there will be fewer publishers and developers who can afford to take the risks.
"That's going to leave a lot of people behind. It's a lot like when, frankly, the first CDs came around and everybody at Origin [Systems] was looking at this silver disk going 'oh my god, what happens when people with more money than we have start filling that thing with assets?' Well now, I mean, once you start actually doing Pixar quality interactive entertainment, there aren't going to be a lot of companies who can afford to do that."

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