Bossa Studios: Vita Will “Die a Horrible Premature Death”, Proprietary Hardware is “Madness”
Bossa Studios head Henrique Olifiers has said that he believes the Vita will suffer from “a horrible premature death” due to its walled garden where you can’t play against people on non-PlayStation hardware.
He told VideoGamer.com:
I hate the fact you cannot play a game on the PS3 against the same game on the 360 or PC. Walled gardens in a world where people are freely connected all the time is just a dumb idea that limits what is achievable.
Valve is bang on: proprietary stuff is madness, we should be moving to more open platforms, to interoperability, bringing everyone together. If this is not the motto for the big console manufacturers, not only will we not be there – they’re likely to die a horrible premature death, the kind of which I think the Vita will suffer from.
Olifiers had equally kind words for the next gen:
We’ll keep on the lookout to see what the next gen will bring, but if they want more focus on tech specs rather than usability and accessibility, I don’t think it will be for us.
Of course, as far as games consoles go, the Vita is remarkably open, and can play with the PS3.
Interestingly, Bossa Studios’ best known game Monstermind is available on Facebook – with players only able to play other Facebook gamers. In September, Google exec Vint Cerf called Facebook “a closed walled garden”, criticizing its lack of openness.
The Last Guardian executive producer Yoshifusa Hayama joined Bossa Studios earlier this month.
28 Responses to “Bossa Studios: Vita Will “Die a Horrible Premature Death”, Proprietary Hardware is “Madness””
I think I will care more for his opinions once his studio makes a game I’m interested in.
” I hate the fact that you cannot play a game on PS3 with the same game on the 360 or PC…” Last time I checked, “gardens” aren’t a one way street. Microsoft and Nintendo both do the same.They’re probably just looking for an excuse to troll on Sony.
So by his definition, Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, PSP, DS, and 3DS have also died premature and horrible deaths?
This fuckin guy, like every other fucking facebook shit game dev, believes cheap crap is the future and big budget games are going down hence why they always say there is no more need for dedicated gaming systems. Henrique needs to take a step back and fuck his own face, im so sick of the ego these devs have for nothing. They dont have the respect of the gaming industry and dont deserve it.
If proprietary hardware is madness, then the gaming devision at MS are the craziest fucks alive. They have all proprietary hardware, they updated their tos so if a game is released early for ps3 they can deny it on their system, its only ok until it happens to them i guess.
At least Sony is showing they do want to connect different platforms by having steam on PS3 and being able to play with pc players in portal 2. MS is the one who needs to change mext gen, but with the diehard following they have i doubt they will.
If it all goes cross-platform, what would be the point in designing different consoles? Why wouldn’t they just design one single console? The PS360-U? How would you handle the fact that Microsoft charges for online play and Sony doesn’t? How would you handle the differences in specs and capabilities of the different consoles all operating the same game? How would you handle game patches? What if the PS3 got a patch to fix a bug before 360 users did? This stuff isn’t feasible. Consoles are different from PCs. It’s time for guys like him to realize this. If you don’t like it, develop PC only games. I’m sure there are still people out there who don’t mind having to upgrade hardware every year to play new games. The rest of us enjoy consoles.
first of all, these small casual games on like facebook and stuff like that remind me of those old lcd tiger electronic games i played when i was 10. those were crap then, and these are crap now. also, getting games to play cross-platform is VERY difficult, from a hardware standpoint and getting the opposing companies to work with each other. ms and sony… not going to happen. so, this guy is an idiot… his opinion is invalid!
this guy makes games for facebook , for facebook! really? i’ve never heard of this guy , of course if vita sells well and is big , they’ll change their minds and make a game for it. but really i can’t wait for the vita , restanice and uncharted alone are system sellers for there side story full games on a portable.
I sure hope he comes around and makes us a Vita game. Can you imagine Farmville or Mafia Wars running on the Vita?! Amazing!
…this article and guy are just like a facebook game, a waste of time.
Maybe if more people actually knew WHO Bossa were in the first place he’d have something to say that’s relevant. But then again FB gamers are casual gamers, wait, not even. Most Wii owners are casual gamers, FB gamers are people who like sitting in front of a screen staring at nothing but clicking buttons. (So much for social gaming huh?) Maybe if FB had an ACTUAL GAME on the site, he MIGHT have some logic in his opinion. But until I see something like Uncharted or Assassin’s Creed or hell even Halo on FB or any social networking site, console gamers, gaming consoles, companies and developers will exist.
well he can continue to make games for facebook and I will just continue to not play them…I truly hope all these developers are not right about the future of gaming, because even though it would be awesome to play games cross platform, I would absolutely lose myself a hobby if the games become more like facebook games or even smartphone games for that matter.
Ok, nothing to see here, moving on….
Alright I guess this guy didnt notice that The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim won the game of the year award, not fucking farmville. He needs to realize that facebook games will die a horrible premature death, not console games.
When I search for their game on Facebook, it says it has 370,000* monthly users.
The Vita will easily sell more units than that within it’s first month after release.
Is it a thing among these Facebook developers to be so overly cocky when there’s millions and millions of people playing on PSN/XBL/etc? There’s more people who sign into PSN in one hour than they have players within a month.
Funny.
“I hate the fact you cannot play a game on the PS3 against the same game on the 360 or PC. Walled gardens in a world where people are freely connected all the time is just a dumb idea that limits what is achievable.”
those limits keep the balance
fanboys of each platform would ruin this connected world for everyone
It’s not that hard to figure that out.But i guess he is another brainless guy who lives in his own fantasy world.
So all his statements are moot
It’s funny how non-console game devs like to troll on console games and things of that matter. This article reminds me of what the Angry Birds dev said, but people actually like that game lol
“Bossa Studios head Henrique Olifiers” WHO?
I agree with him that all consoles should interconnect through cross-game chat. I know it’s something I’ve wanted for years now with all the major gaming consoles as it could finally end the whole flame war situation by allowing more games that interconnect with everyone and people can finally talk to each other without having pre-set ideas about what 360 gamers are like are the vice versa for them (weird really because it’s not like there’s a iifty foot wall seperating us both) Perhaps the next generation would work.
Providing the PS4 can still play games as good as the next 360 (not a bash at MS) and the Wii-U which I think it will as Sony really don’t have the money or time to do what they did last time then yeah I think all three can communicate with each other and Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo should be encouraged to do this. It won’t destroy any of them it they don’t but it’d be a great idea.
though a big barriar still are the online services that are PSN, XBL and Nintendo’s Online. I think a new service created by Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft could work. Perhaps with it’s own medal system and friends list. It’d have to connect to all three consoles so for instance making trophies you’ve already unlocked appear as medals on your medal list. There’d be a lot of things to work out but I think it could work.
Though I still think this guy isn’t the right person to be telling us this. He hasn’t created a single console game so I doubt he has an experiance with consoles like the PS3, 360 and Wii from a hardware and software POV. I don’t think the people who are high up enough in the three companies to make a differance will listen to him, they’ll just see a facebook developer talking bullshit and like us they won’t take him seriously.
If we didn’t have multi consoles there would be no compititon for better games. Bossa doesn’t know crap.
Not only that, but what would happen to games that are exclusive to certain consoles? Those games are usually the best (Uncharted, LBP, Gears of War, and soonThe Last of Us).
I don’t think he’s talking about making just one console but creating a service that allows you to play multiformat games with other people mindless of whether your playing on a PS3 or a 360. Games like Uncharted, LBP, Gears of War, Halo, Super Mario, Zelda and so on wouldn’t be effected by something like.
Like I’ve mentioned above I don’t think not going in this direction is going to have any effect on the games industry or cause console gaming to suffer a premature death as I believe core gamers will still carry on playing games whether or not they can play against people who buy differant consoles to them. It’ll carry on living because console gaming is still what the majority of gamers associate with gaming. Though it would be good to see something where if you have a game like Assassin’s Creed or Modern Warfare 3 then you can play against anyone mindless of console.
There’s still problems that would need to be sorted out like how the PC would be involved in this seeing as PC Gamers can mod their consoles, it’d be hard to make sure all gamers whether you own a PS3, 360, Wii or PC get the same experiance but if you could find a good middle ground it could be really good.
Yeah but if there WAS cross platform gaming there wouldn’t be a need for more than one console. Cause and effect.
The Vita will be successful on day one and not die a “horrible premature death”. I really can’t take this guy seriously cause of his comments seem immature and an act on the Vita itself. Plus I never heard of this guy before or his company either.
“Interestingly, Bossa Studios’ best know game Monstermind”
You forgot the “n” in known Seb. I know you are a stickler for these things.
Oops, you know me well
Fixed
We will see about that.
How in hell will the psvita die a horrible pre mature death from Proprietary Hardware if its the only handheld console with online. I mean, the 3ds dosent even have online as far as i know, and the PsVita isnt gonna play with moible devices because of its hardware being far more powerful. This guys an idiot..