Sid Meier Q&A

Just Your Average Gaming God on The Escapist is a Q&A with Sid Meier,
following up on that deified headline by asking what it's like to be an icon and about his responsibilities as a "pillar of the videogame industry." They also get into
the nitty-gritty of the game industry, touching upon ongoing questions about the
state of gaming on the PC versus consoles: I think PC gaming and console
gaming have different strengths. I think we're seeing a lot of people taking
advantage of those strengths. That's why we're seeing more independent games
being made for the PC because of the internet being a more open environment. You
also see MMO games flourishing on the PC because they kinda lend themselves to
that platform. And a lot of the high-tech action games are flourishing on the
consoles, 'cause the consoles do a good job with that. With [Xbox] Live and the
PSN, we're seeing a lot of multiplayer in consoles where that used to be an
exclusively PC thing. We're lucky to have a game concept in Civilization that
works well on both platforms.


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