BioWare Picks Xbox 360 - interview
(hx) 11:51 AM CEST - May,27 2005
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has conducted
an interview with BioWare Joint CEOs Dr. Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk talking
about the company's plans, such as its current two Xbox 360 games in
development. Here's an excerpt:
GS: Are we talking about platform-agnostic games that will come out on
multiple or all major platforms, or would we be looking at BioWare's next PC
game, followed by Xbox 360 game, and so on?
RM: There might be some of each. For instance, with Dragon Age--the first
iteration of it, anyway--we're focusing on making it the most ambitious PC RPG
we've ever done at BioWare. It's a franchise we own, so there will be other
versions that will be on other platforms. And there are other titles that are
designed for a console. We certainly want to support our PC audience in the
future too. We've got both a console community and a PC community, and we
recognize there's overlap between them, but we also recognize that there are
design preferences that are different between the two. The interesting thing is
that with next generation, [hardware platforms] are evolving together, but
they're also staying separate, so we want to make sure we accommodate both
audiences and make games that are going to be seen as platform-defining games,
no matter what platform they're on.
GZ: We actually haven't really talked about this before, but as long as
we're discussing BioWare's future...Ray and I are huge handheld [gaming] fans.
We spent the entire time on the plane on the way down [to Los Angeles] playing
Lumines.
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