Kojima says episodic content could solve next-gen challenges

Or make a game that doesn't suck and its audience will find it.

this would work for fps multiplayer games but other games don't see the benifit

All this talk of episodic content, as a kind of Demo for users to try games before actually buying the whole product, and providing feedback to the companies, is just smoke and mirrors to mask the true intentions.  Which are to start formating gamers into slowly  accepting their games in episodes, where you would end up paying a lot more than 60 bucks for the whole pack.

I like both TV and movies. But I don't know... commercial supported episodic gaming?

Don't you just hate it when in a demo it says: "This demo is not representative of the final game. "? I mean what is it representative about then? A turd? 

I just don't see myself buying a short demo.

We already have episodic content for most games:

Episode 1: The Game

Episode 2: The rest of the game via paid DLC.

:P

Sorry, but I'm not going to pay any money for a test game. I do kinda like the idea of throwing ideas out and seeing how the public react, but test groups have existed for that purpose for decades. Granted, games lend themselves to a more open forum due to the internet, but I'm certainly not going to pay for the "privilage" of playing an early build of a game which might not even get completed.

It's bad enough that Capcom asks its customers to pay for a game again if they want to see new content, rather than release it as DLC.

Yeah i knew this was coming, this is just another way to encourage and estabilish DLC practices even more, as if we don't alreary have enough crippled games! i don't like this idea at all.  Already been done and (thankfully) failed with Siren New Translation.

If the price is right sure, try some new avenue i say...

Isn't that a demo....

umm, Kojima... this already exists: it's called a 'Demo'

damnit gamespot stop postin pics of ground zeroes everytime hideo says somethin, its sucha tease as i await news to see if the newest mgs games will remain current or go next gen

Costs of pilots are usually incredibly expensive and time consuming, and the rest are cheap relatively (in TV anyways). The same would be for games I'd think.

i'm ok with that, as long as you don't have to pay for it...

Careful.....that's an awful big can of worms you're about to open up there.

See stuff like this makes me want to give up gaming altogether! The developers seem to always think more about what's best for them these days than the consumers...

It just gives them more of an excuse to not give us complete games and to drag their feet in development.

The industry has been desperate to sell gamers on episodic content 15-years.

It should be free, since it's purpose is to see how the public reacts to the game.

did he just describe a pre-demo type deal?

How much this "episodic content" venture is gonna cost to the gamer? Because if it's to test, it should be all free, right? We're not going to finance anything, right!?

Just to be clear... I'd only be willing to pay at max 3 dollars per hour of gameplay's worth...

In other words (CoD single-player only game is screwed), if a game takes 20 hours to complete (and doesn't kill your interest in it before you do), it's worth 60 bucks (just barely)... Those games with addictive multiplayer should have a different price formula... One I'll leave open for debate to my fellow gamers... (Obs: I said gamers, not greedy business-men.)

I think this is good idea and yeah, it'd be just a demo, to show what the game is like, but it'd be longer and would be coming months before the game releases, unlike usually when demo comes maybe 2-4 weeks before game is coming out, not leaving devs basically any room to back down at that point if people suddenly aren't interested in it at all after playing the demo.

"f2p episodic dlc" or pay for a demo?

I hope what had happend to Half Life 2 doesnt happen for next games and developers suddently dont abandon their games ...

Surely the problem with this is that it would take forever to develop the follow up to a hit pilot?

Eddie I think we need more info to go off here what is he talking about demos, videos or shorter games that you buy in smaller chunks? for less money? 

Not even sure what hes talking about, maybe they aren't even demos but more like a 5 min cut seen to get a feel for the story and a bit of animation made to look like game play? a lot cheaper then a demo.???

yeah demos are nothing new I gave been downloading demos for years

so its like a demo but i guess in the age of DLC the words expansion pack and demo are lost from the gaming archives.

I have a better idea. How about developers make some cool gameplay framework, like, let's say  Uncharted. Then what they do is they release a smaller, self-contained game that plays exactly like it. People can buy it, for, say, $5, and it's not that long, but it has a self-contained storyline and it's fun, and all the money goes to help fun the bigger game, that will use the same basic gameplay but on a much bigger scale.

so a demo then 

Some devs tried this on PC.. it failed pretty hard. Who wants to pay money for a game to be left with a cliff hanger, then have to wait months for the next one, then repeat over and over. No thanks, I want to buy the full game and enjoy it. That way when it fails I'm not left wondering what happens in the next episode that never comes.