GameDaily Biz has a lengthy interview up with Silicon Knights' Denis Dyack and, not surprisingly, he has much to say. The Too Human lead has been making headlines lately for his rant about the way games are marketed.

Comparing poor reception of Too Human at E3 2006, Dyack points to negative early looks at films like Titanic and games like Halo as examples why games shouldn't be judged until they're complete. I can get on board with that.

What I can't agree with is Dyack's interest in seeing a single console format (despite the money it would save me and my fellow gamers). His argument is:

I think we're moving towards a homogeneous platform whether people like it or not. At the end of the day, I think it's in everyone's best interest that there be one hardware console, whether it be Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo or whether all three of them got together and said, "Ok we're going to agree upon a standard for everyone to make." [...] We'd rather spend time making the games than worrying about the hardware. And if everyone had the same hardware and when you made a game you knew you got 100% penetration because anyone who plays this game had to buy this hardware platform just like a DVD or whatever standard media format's going to be. I think that would ultimately be much better for gamers.

There's more to it than that, but you get the idea. I prefer the competition, personally, and don't look forward to another 3DO-type platform. Ever. Michael McWhertor

Denis Dyack's Utopian Video Game Future [GameDaily]

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