DICE executive producer Patrick Bach has said his company is pretty much “desperate” for the next console generation to turn up, because Battlefield 3 is pushing both the PS3 and Xbox 360 to the “absolute limit.”<\/p>\n
Talking to CVG<\/a>, Bach is confident that the game will be “if not the best-looking console game this year, [then] up there with the competition.” Right now, experts would probably agree that’s Crysis 2.<\/p>\n “I don’t know what the big corporations are thinking but definitely we are desperate to move on into the next generation. I think Battlefield 3 will look like a next-generation game and all the technology we’re building, the whole Frostbite 2 system – the animations, audio, everything – is trying to aim for a couple of years in the future, rather than looking at what we have today,” he said.<\/p>\n “We are already there. If [Microsoft or Sony] were to release a new console tomorrow, the engine would scale onto that platform, because we have been looking at not only the PC technology today but also speculating what will happen tomorrow when it comes to these things. So everything from our streaming technologies [to] rendering technologies is scalable onto future platforms.”<\/p>\n Ubisoft’s Yves Guillemot said earlier this week that his own company is waiting on the next console generation<\/a> before pushing any new IP, going as far as blaming the current extended generation for an industry “depression.”<\/p>\n