Pitchford suggests next-gen projects are underway at Gearbox

Gearbox is a busy bee, working on Borderlands 2, Aliens: Colonial Marines and Brothers in Arms: Furious 4, but Randy Pitchford and his team are also looking ahead to the next-generation.

Commenting on the next-generation, Pitchford told Gamasutra: “We’ve got a few things going on right now that we haven’t talked about but that’ll appear later.”

However, the studio head was unwilling to offer any specifics.

“I’m always excited by movement forward,” Pitchford said. “Some of that comes from iteration with our software, and some of it comes from iteration with hardware, and some of it comes from invention… each new step kind of gives us new tools and new capabilities that always makes the entertainment better, if we use it right.”

“More power is always better,” he added. “There’s always things we can do that we cannot do today that we can do with more power. So, that’s always true.”

Whilst stating that he doesn’t “like getting behind gimmicks,” Pitchford does believe motion-control is the direction games are heading in.

“There are so many steps between now and the holodeck, or between now and The Matrix, and any number of those steps could be tested or introduced either as gimmicks or as potentials to new standards in any given hardware attempts. Those are always exciting,” he concluded.