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Beachhead Studio, the team behind Call of Duty Elite is well aware of what the platform holders are planning for the next generation, but revealing the juicy details would get them into real trouble.
Quizzed about how services such as Call of Duty Elite will integrate into the next generation, Beachhead product director Noah Heller told VideoGamer.com: “I’d get in a tonne of trouble if I actually talked about the next generation of consoles, due to NDA issues. But I will tell you that we’re entering a world where connectivity is the primary focus.
“When the 360 launched, probably a lot more people played single-player Call of Duty than multiplayer, and now it’s completely the reverse. And so our focus for Elite is deeper integration, a tight experience between the game and Elite itself. And that will echo into future generations of Call of Duty.”
Heller added: “If you think back to playing Call of Duty, your first multiplayer you go in there, you have fun, it’s different and it’s always changing – and that’s probably what hooks you on multiplayer the first time. But after some amount of time you get in there and there’s team talking. Someone says, ‘Go take B, I’ll take B!’ and you go there at the same time as him. Your eyes are kind of opened that there’s a larger world out there, there’s a world of social play. And then the natural extension is to make those relationships persistent with Elite. I have to think that everyone’s thinking about that these days.”
At E3 in June all eyes will be on platform holders to reveal what’s next, but so far only Wii U is confirmed to make an appearance.
