So says David Grijns, the man heading Avalanche’s new New York City-based studios. He tells Edge that the developers “have some intelligence to go on that, by early 2014, we’re pretty sure there’ll be at least one next-generation console on the market.” Based on Grijns’ wording, that next generation excludes the Wii U, which is expected to be slightly more powerful than the Xbox 360 and PS3.
That release window jibes with information Kotaku has heard, which targeted Sony and Microsoft’s next-gen efforts for 2014.
Avalanche’s new US studio is working on “large-scale, online-enabled original IP” – so, not that rumoured Mad Max game? – for PC and other still unannounced platforms.
nightFlarer
Tuesday, June 21, 2011 at 11:40 AM2014 is good for me, we don’t need a new console anytime soon.
lol
Tuesday, June 21, 2011 at 2:20 PMyeah we do?
capabilites of consoles are sub par compared to pc now.
wepoo
Tuesday, June 21, 2011 at 3:34 PMAh… I remember the good old days of mocking my PC friends with their sub par machines. Back when the console was king.
Kyle_Katarn
Tuesday, June 21, 2011 at 4:25 PMYou were mocking your friends based on THEIR PC’s, PC’s have always had and always will have a massive edge over consoles.
thxultra
Tuesday, June 21, 2011 at 9:00 PMExcept most people cant afford $25000+ for “The Beast”…
RaygunBrown
Tuesday, June 21, 2011 at 11:42 AMWhen PS3 games still aren’t taking advantage of full 1080p and 360 games come on 3 discs, 2014 can’t come soon enough.
dmag87
Tuesday, June 21, 2011 at 11:57 AMQuestion: Why do they believe this rumour?
Answer: Just ’cause.
(See what I did there)
Raistlan
Tuesday, June 21, 2011 at 1:54 PMGood work ruining your somewhat witty joke by explicitly pointing it out.
MarkD
Tuesday, June 21, 2011 at 2:32 PMum, the deliberate pointing out of the joke WAS the joke
Pakka
Tuesday, June 21, 2011 at 12:24 PMThere’s not doubt that MS and SONY are working on new consoles with technology, ideas etc… but I don’t think they’re doing to announce it in 12 months. That’s my thought anyway.
I reckon they’re coming up with ideas and waiting on the Wii U – if its going to be a major success like the Wii, then they will announce it and release it ASAP so as not to lose any market share for a new console and so the 360 and PS3 don’t just fall off the face of the earth, but like that would happen anyway!?
Peter Richards
Tuesday, June 21, 2011 at 12:43 PMIf developers don’t have dev kits in their hands now, which this article certainly implies, then 2014 makes perfect sense.
You would have to have kits with devs today if you wanted a 2013 release before Christmas with any titles to back it up.
James Mac
Tuesday, June 21, 2011 at 1:09 PMIt’s probably reasonable.
If they get announced at e3 next year, thay would be out by Christmas 2013.
doubleDizz
Tuesday, June 21, 2011 at 2:14 PMbetter than 2013!
Kyle_Katarn
Tuesday, June 21, 2011 at 4:27 PMLets just hope they hire some TALENTED voice actors for their next JC Game.
If I have to hear about my escapades as a comraid of the repaah’s one more time from Bolo San-toe-seeeeeeeeeeeeee, I’m going to blow my brains out.
djmcbell
Tuesday, June 21, 2011 at 4:44 PM2014 sounds about right.
PCs may be managing better stuff than consoles now, but that always becomes the case. Even if consoles are running out of horsepower, there are still enough ways to make them look prettier for a while and keep them going (such as with the PS2). Hell, I play some older 360 games and still think they look great (PGR4, Banjo Kazooie N&B etc).
I’m actually still hoping for a single-console future. Well, not quite, but sorta. Games can be played by any console, but allow companies to make their own version of the console. Like DVD players. Games themselves would benefit enormously – there would be better competition (Mario would be up against LBP directly, for instance). Gamers would benefit – no need to own all the consoles for the few exclusives. Developers would benefit – only need to create one version of the game.
But that’s a different topic.