StompingFreak
27-08-2008, 07:03 AM
Relic is famed for RTS games such as Homeworld, Company of Heroes and Warhammer. But the studio has so far shied away from porting any of its titles to console. A bold move considering a number of PC developers now see this a financial necessity.
"Relic sees RTS on console as a very interesting proposition but so far, it hasn't been a good fit for the games we have made," producer Mark Noseworthy told CVG in an interview to be published later this week.
The control scheme is again to blame. "We don't see porting a traditional PC RTS to console as a very good strategy because the controls, by definition, are incompatible with the game design. To do RTS on console right, you have to develop from the ground up and rethink what it means to have real-time-strategy gameplay."
There is some good news for Relic's console fans (the studio also did The Outfit on 360) though in the form of this little bone: "Dawn of War II isn't a traditional RTS and I think it would make a much better candidate for porting to console than any of our previous games but there are no such plans right now."
Source (http://www.goldenjoystick.com/)
"Relic sees RTS on console as a very interesting proposition but so far, it hasn't been a good fit for the games we have made," producer Mark Noseworthy told CVG in an interview to be published later this week.
The control scheme is again to blame. "We don't see porting a traditional PC RTS to console as a very good strategy because the controls, by definition, are incompatible with the game design. To do RTS on console right, you have to develop from the ground up and rethink what it means to have real-time-strategy gameplay."
There is some good news for Relic's console fans (the studio also did The Outfit on 360) though in the form of this little bone: "Dawn of War II isn't a traditional RTS and I think it would make a much better candidate for porting to console than any of our previous games but there are no such plans right now."
Source (http://www.goldenjoystick.com/)