The EDI (E-Distribution Initiative is Sony's response to the Xbox 360 Marketplace and the Wii's Virtual Console. At this point, Jaffe explains he will engage audiences through this medium "until the cows come home". Criminal Crackdown is his first game for the EDI; a mental mix of "cops and robbers meets basketball" or possibly "a cross between Twisted Metal and Bomberman".
Quoting the source, Criminal Crackdown will be "for 4 players, online, offline, 4 different maps, 10-12 different cars. It's a really good value and a lot of fun for players. If it's successful, we hope to support it with downloadable content." We hope so too. Support is always good.
"I know there are a lot of guys much smarter than me that are very much into the microtransaction model - dollar signs don't really keep me awake at night,". Perhaps you should give some heartfelt advice to Sony?
"Concepts keep me awake at night."
Despite his EDI enthusiasm, Jaffe is all about traditional gaming with the mainstream. "This team and I are rolling onto a new one starting in about a month," he explains. "And there's another one in Santa Monica that we're about to start development on. This is really all I want to be doing now."
"For me, it's been a lot more fun to write pop songs than operas. And in the future, because I think these services are going to be really successful, I think it's actually going to end up being more lucrative to write pop songs, just like in the real world, than operas." Is God of War an opera or a pop song? You decide.
Regardless of discourse, God of War will probably keep coming until the end of an era. "I guarantee you'll get more God of War," he confided to Newsweek, "'cause I don't think I have much of a choice. If it was up to me, he would have fallen off the mountain in the first game and actually died. It would have been like, 'All right, we're done. He's dead.' [Laughs.]"
Kratos lives on.
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