If you were hoping to see Braid dev Jonathan Blow’s next project, The Witness, launch on console, stop that at once because it’s probably not going to happen.
In an interview with Edge, the somewhat controversially outspoken indie dev blamed the technical limitations of the current generation of consoles, saying he’d much rather be working with whatever’s coming next.
“We like [Xbox] 360 and PS3, but their specifications are over five years old now, and that’s a lot in computer years,” he explains.”The kind of tricks we’d have to perform to get this game working on those platforms are such a lot of work that to port it over at this point is just not worth it for us.”
“For this type of game, I do wish the new generation of consoles had come out by now. Even if it only meant a slightly faster graphics processor and a lot more RAM.”
“Having more memory would make a huge difference to being able to bring a game like [The Witness] to a console. It makes it much easier.”
[Insert obligatory crap joke about manipulating time and simply magicking that next generation of consoles into existence here.]
Quite what The Witness actually is remains something of a mystery for the moment. It’s an open world 3D puzzler featuring mazes, AND IT’S NOT COMING TO CONSOLE, and that’s about all we know about it.
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