Watch Dogs coming to 'all home consoles' holiday 2013
Next-gen and Wii U release confirmed by leaked poster?
Watch Dogs will release on "all home consoles" this holiday, an alleged promotional poster for the game has revealed.
The wording on the poster, which popped up over at Kotaku, suggests that the game will see a release on Wii U and any next-generation consoles released this side of Christmas, as well as the previously announced Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC versions.
You can take a look at the poster yourself by clicking the image on the right.
Watch Dogs has long been rumoured to be in development for both current and next-generation systems owing to its impressive showing at last year's E3.
Ubisoft has never denied it either, of course, with CEO Yves Guillemot remaining coy when questioned about platforms soon after its reveal.
The firm later added weight to the rumours by confirming that it is developing some of its games on both current and next-generation hardware.
Both Sony's PlayStation 4 and Microsoft's next-generation Xbox are hotly tipped to go on sale this year.
Ubisoft handed VideoGamer.com a "no comment" when contacted about the poster this afternoon.
Source: Kotaku
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:p
Karlius
Anvil is used for Watch Dogs. I imagine you have to spend time with the games to see the vast array of similarities!
Just as every Rockstar game uses the same engine with a few tweaks.
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Karlius
It will sell by the million and will hopefully have the story to match without the repetitive nature of an Assassins Creed game.
Woffls
What we need to acknowledge at the end of this generation* is that game engines are much more scalable, and there's a lot of architecture convergence going on as well as Sony/MS just being like "yeah let's make the same console" (this will screw Sony btw because hardware was their trump card).
Scalability means cross-platform and even cross-generation, and most publishers will have been working on next gen engines whilst developing current gen games, so it makes sense that some of these new current gen games will be built on new engines that can be scaled back to run on older hardware.
There's an obvious business case as well: Watch_Dogs has, it seems, gotten a lot of investment from Ubisoft, so they'll want to market it a lot and sell it to the largest potential market. Current gen alone would be enough for them, but selling it as a next gen game (thus getting support from MS/Sony for helping their new platforms) will say to consumers "yo here's this bad ass SHINY NEXT GEN game that you can play on your current consoles without the bad ass rain.
And the reason it wasn't announced for other consoles is because the platform holders weren't ready. Why the hell Nintendo weren't on board at the time and stole Watch_Dogs for their press conference I will never know.
Of course, the poster could be a load of twaddle, but I still think this is a cross-platform game. How cross platform? I don't know. It's either PS360U or PS(3/4)Xbox3(60)U... and maybe Vita lol jokes.
*Okay here I got a bit sentimental and stopped typing the other bit. Video game platforms are released so infrequently, yet just over few enough years, that it's possible to get truly invested in the cycle. We genuinely get excited about the new prospects, all the changes and which platform holders are going to make the biggest difference.
I don't really know what I'm getting at (for a change har har), but it's the closest real-world application I can think of (other than like relationships or whatever) for the phrase "end of an era".
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