{"id":20513,"date":"2013-04-10T11:36:06","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T18:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=20513"},"modified":"2013-04-10T11:36:06","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T18:36:06","slug":"greg-zeschuk-thinks-next-gen-consoles-may-not-be-the-droids-youre-looking-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2013\/04\/10\/greg-zeschuk-thinks-next-gen-consoles-may-not-be-the-droids-youre-looking-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Greg Zeschuk thinks next-gen consoles may not be the droids you&#8217;re looking for"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"20513\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/greg.png\"<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/greg.png\" alt=\"greg\" width=\"600\" height=\"341\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20519\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After Greg Zeschuk left BioWare, he created quite the stir by saying he&#8217;d probably never create another game again and instead devoted his retirement to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebeerdiaries.tv\/\">beer<\/a>. Not just drinking them, but the process of brewing and selling them. Recently, both he and Ray Muzyka were honored at GDC with a Lifetime Achievement Award and Greg sat down with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamesindustry.biz\/articles\/2013-04-09-the-doctor-is-out-greg-zeschuk-on-bioware-ea-and-the-uncertain-console-future\">GamesIndustry International<\/a> to discuss his game-making days, what it was like working for EA, and why he thinks the next-gen may be at a crossroads.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Also, right now, there is this sort of classic innovator&#8217;s dilemma where we see a new market emerging, but it&#8217;s not really that great &#8211; with the mobile business, certain people make a lot of money but on the whole it&#8217;s not generating as much revenue as the console business. Everyone&#8217;s kind of holding out hope for the new consoles, but I honestly don&#8217;t think they&#8217;re going to be that big a deal. I worry a lot that unless Microsoft or Sony pull something magically out of a hat, it&#8217;s pretty much the same old, same old repackaged and I don&#8217;t think they&#8217;re going to change the dynamic of the retail market. I don&#8217;t see how they can &#8211; the market is what it is.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1684,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Greg Zeschuk thinks next-gen consoles may not be the droids you&#039;re looking for - Quarter to Three<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2013\/04\/10\/greg-zeschuk-thinks-next-gen-consoles-may-not-be-the-droids-youre-looking-for\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Greg Zeschuk thinks next-gen consoles may not be the droids you&#039;re looking for - 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