DayZ on console is a “definite possibility”, says dev

15 August 2012

Now that DayZ is growing up to be a real game all on its own, what are the chances of seeing to launched for Xbox and PS3? It’s a “definite possibility”, apparently.

The hugely popular ARMA 2 zombie survival mod is now in development for as a standalone PC game at ARMA studio Bohemia Interactive, headed up by original mod creator Dean “Rocket” Hall.

“I think that, say, we did 2 million sales I think that definitely we’d start to look at things like [a console launch] being quite achievable,” Hall told NOW Gamer at Gamescom. “ArmA already has a background in going on to the 360 so it’s definite possibility.”

For the moment, though, the PC version remains the number one priority.

“I think it’s a staged-approach thing,” explained Hall. “So we’re really in the experimentation phase of it and that’s what the PC is really awesome for to experiment with it and we get the experience good and then if the sales are good then that means the demand is there and we look at what’s out there.”

What’s out there? I’ll tell you what’s out there, man. Bandits. They want to steal my hatchet, man, and that hatchet’s all I’ve got. I don’t know what I’m going to do now, because I don’t even have matches anymore, and even if I can kill a cow, I’ve got no way to cook that stuff. I’m going to die, man. I’m going to die, oh lawd. The horror, the horror.

Source: NOW Gamer

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  1. Alex [SS] PsyChoPanthis
    16.08.2012 at 05:47

    One of the guys from Rock, Paper, Shotgun spoke to Rocket at gamescom and found out some interesting little “tidbits” like Chernarus is going to be redesigned and made bigger with more enterable buildings, more maps will be developed for DayZ, they thinking of player made base type things that will be instanced and accesible via man hole covers etc underground. These base things will have to be excavated and built by the player and they can even have cave ins XD

    Source:
    http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012/08/15/day-z-standalone-instanced-building-more-chernarus/

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