Saints Row 2 Interview - Demo "Possible"

There's a pretty extensive
Saints
Row 2 Interview on VideoGamer.com talking with Dan Sutton, associate
producer on Volition's upcoming open-world sequel. Some of the ground they cover
includes the difficulties of open-world development, testing, developing for
different platforms, the possibility of an MMO Saints Row game, DLC, a
lot of PS3-specific questions, and more. One answer reveals they may endeavor to
overcome the inherent difficulties of making a demo for this sort of
game:It's possible to make, yes. We haven't said if we're going to or
not, but it's definitely possible. We did it for the first one and it was really
really good for us. We're definitely looking into doing that. Our main focus
right now is making sure we get the game looking hot. After that we look into
getting a demo out during out Microsoft submission time or PlayStation
submission time. Usually with game companies you submit to them a couple of
months before the final product and you have time between there to decide if you
want to or not. I think it depends. PlayStation owners would definitely like to
see it and have hands on, because it really sold the Xbox for us, having a demo
I think. Especially as PlayStation hasn't had a hands-on, it would be
beneficial. We're definitely looking at doing that. It's on our radar right now.
It just depends what the big bosses at Volition and THQ decide. I think there
are studies that came out like two or three weeks ago where they said that
actually demos don't help sales. Which is tough for developers, as we want to
give it to people too. With our game we have a fun enough game and a sandbox
experience that people are only going to buy it because of that. As long as that
stays the same we definitely want to do it.


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