Speaking to Eurogamer at the recent Battlefield 3 launch, DICE exec, Patrick Bach, weighed in with his views on the next generation of consoles – and DICE’s readiness to tackle whatever they might bring.
This in on the backdrop of EA’s announcement that Battlefield 4 is a definite – and consideringthat they did a good job with Battlefield 3, it’s not too much of a stretch to having series pregenitor DICE involved with the sequel.
When speaking about what a next-gen Battlefield would look like on consoles, Bach pointed to the current PC version of Battlefield 3.
“If anyone would build a new console today, that would be the result – at least. Probably more, because it’s classic PC technology,” he said.
“We know everything about multi-threading now. We know everything about multi-graphics card solutions now. If someone built a console where the specs are that or more, we have the technology to do something. We could port the game to that console tomorrow.”
Battlefield 3 is running on DICE’s new Frostbite 2 engine – which was developed to be future-proof for the company – so as long as the next generation of consoles doesn’t do something to flip everything upside down, DICE reckon they will be safe.
“There’s nothing we know about now that the new consoles would do differently, rather do more.”
“Since we can handle both [Xbox 360 and PS3] now…we have whatever we might need for the future.”
Battlefield 4 has been confirmed by EA, but there’s no word on who’s making it (likely DICE), or what platform – present or future – it will be coming on.
Source: Eurogamer
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