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Activision boss-man Bobby Kotick has expressed his excitement for the Wii U, and although wouldn’t reveal plans for specific titles, explained that the console was capable of “deep rich multiplayer”.
“Well, without telling you our title plans, it’s now more possible to do deep rich multiplayer games – we need more clarity from Nintendo on the online capabilities, but we’ve had development systems for a while now and we’re very enthusiastic about it,” Kotick told the Guardian.
“I think that the user-interface itself is very clever – there will be a lot of innovation to come from having the second screen. It’s also critically important that you can use the existing physical interfaces with the new device because those are really compelling. Nintendo has always done a very good job of thinking about the user experience and this is no exception.”
“For the kinds of games we create, it was becoming very difficult for us to support the Wii with the expectations that our gamers have.”
Activision is one of many publishers on board for the Wii U, which Nintendo has claimed will ‘melt away’ third-party hurdles.
It’s not just the Wii U on the horizon, of course. Kotick is equally enthusiastic for the PlayStation Vita, but questions where the market is.
“It is a fantastic piece of hardware,” he said. “Technically, we’re super excited about what we can do on it, it’s really something incredible.”
“The question is, where is the market? I think the pricing was surprisingly affordable, the product itself is really great – so the questions is, is there a need in the marketplace for a very specialised portable device of that capability? Hopefully there will be because it’s a really nice product and its very well differentiated from what you can get in even the most capable smartphone or tablet today.”
Call of Duty obviously has a huge multiplayer focus – could Kotick be referring to this when he speaks about the online capabilities of Wii U? Quite possibly. Besides Call of Duty and World of Warcraft we can’t think of any other Activision titles which offer “deep rich multiplayer”.
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