Guild Wars 2

Dee Jay.2460:

mercury touched on a few good points, but it still remains a possibility.

The PS4 has currently sold roughly 5 Mio. untits and is going strong. That’s a pretty healthy install-base for such a young product. So I’d wager there certainly is a market for such a game.

With GW2 making 100 Mio. a year, I think there is a financial incentive to try the PS4.

However I see issues with the game itself.

GW2 is really built on an outdated engine with outdated software. It’s written for 32-bit software and DirectX 9.

The PS4 however is 64-bit and uses an modern API, probably similar to Mantle.

Software wise you’d basically have to rewrite the entire basis for the game to make it run well on the PS4. Not impossible but a long and tedious task, especially if you don’t have experienced console developers working on it.

Then there’s the actual game-play itself. You’d have to add some sort of voice-com, since chat won’t be an option, rework the entire UI for controllers and find a way to get the control scheme to work. But compared to the engine rewrite these tasks are fairly trivial.

Long-term it might be a good way for NC soft to gather experience developing for the new generation of consoles. They could learn a lot from it, especially if/how MMOs work on consoles.

But it would be a long and costly process and I don’t know how risk-averse NC soft is.

Ok I didn’t know that. That was some great points you brought to the table. I will hold my thumbs for GW3.

One thing I a surten of is there will come a bunch of mmos to the consoles. We already have DCUO but there are more coming in the near future. FF14, Planetside and Elder Scrolls Online. The consoles will be a viable market for mmos.

Quednau.7390:

Get Xpadder. its only $10 and lets you map any keys to any controller.. really easy to use, and if you dont know a good control scheme you can download other peoples control layout profiles for tons and tons of different games.

I know about that software. Thing is I don’t want to play on my PC. I enjoy it more when I play on a big TV and sitting relaxing on my sofa.

Reading all the comment people seam to despise the console and lock at them as some kind of evil, don’t get it.

Nat.4029:

PiffdaBiff.9736:

Nat.4029:

IF this were to ever happen, I would hope it would be a LOOOONG way down the road. They need to focus all their attention on the game itself right now, and not worry about porting it to consoles.

I don’t know why you would say that?

I don’t play anymore. But what I have read on forums and Internet they have managed to give all of you who still play free content, that’s free of charge. I cant see how people are complaining. It maybe something wrong with the community?

The game needs to continue to grow and evolve. Especially with permanent content. If they were to do a console port, then I would hope they would hire a totally seperate team to work on porting it over. That way the main dev team can still focus on new content.

A port will always be a port. The game assets are finished and no new content is needed for a port. They would maybe need to hire some new people who knows how the new consoles work. Then its would just a mater of porting it over. I would actually prefer if Anet made the port them selfs, to minimize the screw ups.

kokiman.2364:

Just because it is free doesn’t mean it is always good. The high frequency of updates comes with a price, the gemstore not being the “only skins and not pay2win” shop anymore.

A.Net looked into consoles but I think they scrapped the idea and right now they are pretty busy.

That’s true. What I have read on the Internet they have like 4 teams working on different thing inside Anet. I would just like to know if it’s ever going to happen or not. As the game is great and it deserves to be played by more people. I feel as good as the game is it hasn’t got the deserved attention.

Nat.4029:

IF this were to ever happen, I would hope it would be a LOOOONG way down the road. They need to focus all their attention on the game itself right now, and not worry about porting it to consoles.

I don’t know why you would say that?

I don’t play anymore. But what I have read on forums and Internet they have managed to give all of you who still play free content, that’s free of charge. I cant see how people are complaining. It maybe something wrong with the community?

MasterKitty.8205:

It’s a huge maybe… But only in a lot while. It’s not just about the specs, but MMORPG in a console, especilly with the PC users combined might give an unwanted effect. Especilly since sometimes verbal comunication (chat) is essential.

Persionally, I can see this happen, but not in another few years, and possibly not in GW2, but in some other newer mmo of the series.

Reason why I started this thread was is I just started playing the Final Fantasy 14 Beta on PS4 and it was great with just a controller. I love the GW universe and the gameplay from GW2 and would love to see it on a console. If FF14 skills can be mapped on a controller then I an surten it would not be a problem mapping GW2 skills and other stuff like inventory on it.

I feel like the PC elitist/pride is making people think the game coming to consoles is a bad thing. When if(and that’s just if) the game manages to hit the consoles that would mean the community would get so much bigger and healthier. That would not take anything from the PC version. Anet knows how to make PC games. I have hard time thinking they would just abandon the market that made them to what they are today.

mercury ranique.2170:

The issue here is money.
MMORPG-ing on consoles is still very young. Anet or NCsoft have no commercial need. The market for PC-games is booming and going console would be a high risk investment.

I totally agree one 90% of what you are saying. But I still think it’s doable. If you lock at the lowest specs required to play GW2, the new consoles should manage that.

I love to see a healthy PC market. My pint is if NCSoft and Anet make a console port they would have spreed there risk significantly. The initial costs will maybe hurt, but in the long run I am sure it will pay of.

It’s bin a while last time I played GW2 last time, but to be honest when I played it I loved the game.

I have always bin more of a console guy. So when the FF14 Beta hit PS4 I was chocked how good it played. There were a bunch of people playing, comparable to GW2 launch days. It has some issues but nothing that cant be fixed.

I don’t know if its the romantic in me but if FF14 can make the jump to PS4 or XONE and I think it will succeed in being profitable, I cant see why GW2 could not do the same. If one MMO could make the jump, GW2 is the one.

And to all of you who think Sony would not let them for different business reasons. I say to you, If there’s a will there’s a way.

Thoughts!