[THIS POST ORIGINALLY APPEARED ON ADRIAN CROOK’S FREETOPLAY.BIZ SITE.]
From a Gamasutra interview with Nicholas Beliaeff, Sony Online San Diego studio head… here are a few quotes:
On reducing barriers to entry:
We’ve got a lot of streaming going on, and we’ve reduced the barrier to entry for players. There’s no big download, and no credit card required. We’re really excited about that.
On multi-platform development:
For us as a company moving forward, all of our MMOs in development have a console component.
On min specs:
Whenever you’re making a game and are proud of it, you want as many people as possible to play that game. In the PC world, the lower the machine spec you can get, the bigger potential audience you have, and the more chance you have for people to look at your work.
On Free to Play:
If you look at some of the free to play games like Club Penguin and RuneScape, it’s a huge market. If you look at the actual numbers of people playing RuneScape, there may actually be more people playing RuneScape than there are playing World of Warcraft.
Interestingly, Nicholas and I met in 2001 when I was pitching a product of mine to him and Trip Hawkins at 3DO.