Kojima challenges the PS3 for “psychological effects”

This one is still about video game designer Hideo Kojima and the recently concluded GO3 Electronic Entertainment Expo and Conference (GO3). We’ve already reported what Kojima had to say on Metal Gear solid 4: Guns of the Patriots but he still had a lot to say about the PlayStation 3 (PS3) and its possible impact on our minds.

His speech was focused on “Evolution in Technology and Changes in Game Design”, and according to him, modern video gaming has evolved so much that designers had to consider other elements like story, design, voice acting, sound effects, music, and online code. All of these plus realistic graphics, Kojima added, could greatly affect people on a psychological level.

As game hardware evolves and more technology appears, you will gradually start to collaborate with other industry professionals. Doctors, psychologists, many artists, plus maybe some scientists – we can perhaps collaborate with these people in the future.

Quite notably, Kojima mentioned that their team had exhausted the concept of the space so they are focusing on creating situations. He then discussed how this applied this to MGS4. In this reiteration of the series, Kojima explained that Snake has a lot of important choices to make,

This time it’s a warzone, so you have country A or country B. Snake could interfere with either of the countries. It does not necessarily mean that everyone is an enemy to Snake. This creates a new tension in playing this new hide and seek.

Going back to psychological effects, he addressed Sony and said that its new entertainment system could be very instrumental in all these. He quipped, “I would like to challenge the PS3’s CPU power for not only what you can see, but also psychological effects, or psychological battles, where it can affect your gameplay.”

Via Next-Gen

This one is still about video game designer Hideo Kojima and the recently concluded GO3 Electronic Entertainment Expo and Conference (GO3). We’ve already reported what Kojima had to say on Metal Gear solid 4: Guns of the Patriots but he still had a lot to say about the PlayStation 3 (PS3) and its possible impact on our minds.

His speech was focused on “Evolution in Technology and Changes in Game Design”, and according to him, modern video gaming has evolved so much that designers had to consider other elements like story, design, voice acting, sound effects, music, and online code. All of these plus realistic graphics, Kojima added, could greatly affect people on a psychological level.

As game hardware evolves and more technology appears, you will gradually start to collaborate with other industry professionals. Doctors, psychologists, many artists, plus maybe some scientists – we can perhaps collaborate with these people in the future.

Quite notably, Kojima mentioned that their team had exhausted the concept of the space so they are focusing on creating situations. He then discussed how this applied this to MGS4. In this reiteration of the series, Kojima explained that Snake has a lot of important choices to make,

This time it’s a warzone, so you have country A or country B. Snake could interfere with either of the countries. It does not necessarily mean that everyone is an enemy to Snake. This creates a new tension in playing this new hide and seek.

Going back to psychological effects, he addressed Sony and said that its new entertainment system could be very instrumental in all these. He quipped, “I would like to challenge the PS3’s CPU power for not only what you can see, but also psychological effects, or psychological battles, where it can affect your gameplay.”

Via Next-Gen