Alex Ward loves Playstation.. BO5 to lead on PS3

[Inspector]

You've been working on Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 for a while. What's your read on the two platforms?

That's just the old classic question, isn't it?

It wasn't a leading question. I just asked you what's your read on the two systems?

What's my read? We're working on them both. We're getting good results on both. But at heart, my guys, the Burnout guys, we're kind of specialists on the Sony system. Because it was always that way on Burnout. But we are doing some cool stuff on 360.

I'm really glad Sony didn't change the controller. I'm excited to come here today and look at some of the other PS3 games, because we've just been playing our stuff. We're having fun, we're getting good results.

You guys were great coders on PS2. You got amazing results. When you were making Black, you told journalists, "We're making the best Xbox game you've ever seen a PS2." What's been the hardest thing about the jump to PS3 and Xbox 360?

You're only as good as your last game. So the hardest thing for us right now is getting everyone to believe us, because we haven't shown it yet. This one for us is Burnout 1 all over again. This is back to basics. We've just got traffic in the game. This is why we're not showing the software yet. It's still quite early.

Things are going according to track, but we have to nail the crashes completely. The first time we show the game, the expectations are so high. Some of the people I've spoken to about PlayStation 3, they're thinking PlayStation 6 is in this box. They're thinking PlayStation 25. They're thinking that in a month's time, they're going to take this box home and it's going to stop the whole planet. And I think it will [laughs], but it's not PlayStation 25.

Our goal on Burnout right now is to make it look like a year two PS3 game in year one. And that's pretty tough, because I went to Tokyo Game Show, and there's a lot of good games coming. I'm really excited. I'm a big Resistance fan. I'm a big MotorStorm fan. I'm a huge Ridge Racer fan. So I think there's a lot of good games coming at the start, and obviously over on our side of the pond, it's not coming until March. So...we'll be asking you to send us one, won't we?

And as a Brit, how do you feel about that?

You know--I'm all right. Again, one of the reasons I'm here is because I'm a big fanatical PlayStation fan. There's a lot of negativity everywhere now on PlayStation. And it's just 'cause people haven't got it, haven't seen it. People forget the astonishing stuff Sony have done, not just in the business, but the great software they've brought to us, the great hardware they've brought to us.

We're fanatical about PlayStation. In England, we're not as polite as the Americans sometimes. We'll all be out rioting in the streets when that thing comes out. You'll be lining up outside the Metreon, playing on your DS, all in an orderly line, doing interviews. England, we'll be fighting, knocking each other down. People will go crazy for it. I think they'll sell everything they manufacture for a long, long time. So I don't mind at all. But I'm going to try buy one out of the U.S. We'll have to pay a lot of money for it. We've already got our spies around America trying to secure hardware for us. I'm excited. I've just gone and bought my first Blu-Ray movies. As long as I get one that week with all the games--I mean, I can't wait until March. There's no way.

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[Nesh]

What a f*****

j/k


I find it funny though that he adnits he is a PS fanatic haha

I am expecting great things from these devs btw. What they have achieved on the PS2 is a marvel.

The Burnout series surpasssed expectations and has done things that people would have been expecting only from XBOX or even from newer PC graphics cards. Burnout3 and 4 are probably the best looking racing games out there on the previous gen consoles.

And Black? They got the visual quality people were expecting from Killzone. Only with no bugs. That game didnt look like a PS2 game at all. The only problem with Black is that it offered nothing special in terms of gameplay.

 

[TheChefO]

The Burnout series surpasssed expectations and has done things that people would have been expecting only from XBOX or even from newer PC graphics cards. Burnout3 and 4 are probably the best looking racing games out there on the previous gen consoles.

Agreed - superb quality coders - Although I was disappointed with the direction they took with burnout revenge. They're heading more towards hotwheels than need for speed however that may be under the direction of ea wanting to seperate and establish their brands identity. Personally if that's going to be the case with bo5 though I'd like to see ea put this team on nfs then and do the franchise justice and stick the hotwheels license to a "lesser" developer.

 

[Nesh]

Agreed - superb quality coders - Although I was disappointed with the direction they took with burnout revenge. They're heading more towards hotwheels than need for speed however that may be under the direction of ea wanting to seperate and establish their brands identity. Personally if that's going to be the case with bo5 though I'd like to see ea put this team on nfs then and do the franchise justice and stick the hotwheels license to a "lesser" developer.

I felt similarly with Revenge. The skill was toned down as well.

 

[ShootMyMonkey]

We're fanatical about PlayStation. In England, we're not as polite as the Americans sometimes. We'll all be out rioting in the streets when that thing comes out. You'll be lining up outside the Metreon, playing on your DS, all in an orderly line, doing interviews. England, we'll be fighting, knocking each other down. People will go crazy for it.

Is there another America we don't know about? Which one is he talking about when he mentions that the people are comparatively polite and orderly? Why is it nowhere to be seen on a map?

 

[avaya]

Is there another America we don't know about? Which one is he talking about when he mentions that the people are comparatively polite and orderly? Why is it nowhere to be seen on a map?

No, the Chav's have done this country in big time. The filth will be out on the streets come launch day. They are the key demographics. Only the gun laws will stop it from getting as violent as it could get.

 

[Rangers]

Why, exactly, isn't this thread locked?

Seems a bit of a double standard going on around here.

 

[Moonblade]

Why, exactly, isn't this thread locked?

Seems a bit of a double standard going on around here.

Why? It's just an interview, read and have fun. :smile:

 

[dodo3]

Nice to see PS3 as a lead development platform.

Hope Criterion really digs deep into PS3's hardware, I foresee amazing things with this game.

 

[Rangers]

Why? It's just an interview, read and have fun. :smile:

Because comparison threads, and every other dev saying they like one console better than another, are locked?

Hmm, now what is different about this one..

 

[Moonblade]

Because comparison threads, and every other dev saying they like one console better than another, are locked?

Hmm, now what is different about this one..

What's different about this one is that the developer doesn't make any comparisons. He barely mentions 'xbox360' so there's no reason to get upset.

 

[Farid]

Why, exactly, isn't this thread locked?

Seems a bit of a double standard going on around here.

It's not a a nonsensical X360 VS PS3 thread with a premise such as "an anonymous anonym that nobody knows said the Phantom is superior technicallly to the Wii, and that for reasons that I couldn't explain, because it's a secret, but this anonymous was eager to point out that the Phantom had a powerful fillrate, whatever that means."

Here, in this case, it's just an interview with a known developer, Alex Ward, who says that Burnout 5, his own game, is being developed with the PS3 as the lead platform and that he and his team are Playstation fans. He doesn't try to sound fair and politically correct, nor is he taking a jab at a particulary system, nor does he even do a any inane and simplistic comparisons between the systems.

 

[Shifty Geezer]

This interview is good in that it shows the human element. Devs can be fans too! And to me that's good, because it means whatever system they're a fan of, they're going to work harder at for the love of it, rather than for the economic returns. I guess this is a very unpolitic interview as some XB360 owners may well think 'treat my console as a second rate afterthought? Then I won't be buying your game!' but I'm pleased to hear of devs enthusiastic about the platform(s) they work on. Obviously biased comments like Ward's mean any 'we really like platform x' remarks are honest and not just PR statements.

 

[rounin]

This should be interesting. I wonder what kind of things his team will draw out of the machine

 

[mckmas8808]

Can't wait to see the first video clips.

 

[22psi]

Sweet, can't wait to see what they can pull off.

 

[Pozer]

Atleast he's being honest about being dishonest. Last gen Critierion said the reason the ps2 was the lead dev platform was because of the embedded ram allowed more particle effects and the xbox1 was more restrictive in bandwidth. This gen the situation is reversed so he just says Im a fanboi. That takes guts.