QUINCY, Mass. August 7 - How new software will deliver games will dictate the future of gaming, Irrational Games creative director Ken Levine told EuroGamer in an interview published yesterday.
"From a hardware perspective, the PC and the Xbox and the PS4 are very much similar beasts in a lot of ways now," he said. "It's more about the software on top of it and the services they provide.
"What I'm excited about - you saw that Google dongle that came out the other day? - is something like that for games."
The "dongle", that Levine is referring to is Chromecast, a $35 HDMI wireless device that transfers stream content from the user's tablet or laptop to the TV.
"People want to talk about owning the living room. I don't think the living room matters that much any more," he continued. "It's about wherever you want to game and having your experience. I'm not just saying playing an iPhone game, I'm saying having your game - your big, hardcore game - playing on whatever screen you wanted.
"I think that kind of technology is going to be something that's really important for gamers, because you want to be able to pick up your experience and move it somewhere else."
Sony's promise of how the PS4 will connect with Vita resembles Levine's vision of how players will game in the future.
"The technology's there - it's actually very, very cheap," Levine said "I'm just waiting for someone to do it, because letting gamers define their experience - how they play it, where they play it - that's where it's going. Gamer-driven experiences. That's what excites me."
SOURCE: EuroGamer
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