DICE Is Ready For Next-Gen Consoles

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The console versions of Battlefield 3 will push Xbox 360 and PS3 to their technical limits, according to DICE - and the studio isn't scared by the prospect of Microsoft or Sony unveiling a new home system tomorrow.

The stunning trio of trailers for BF3 released by EA to date have wowed viewers, but many have questioned whether the gorgeous visuals can be replicated on non-PC hardware.



DICE executive producer Patrick Bach told CVG that he was confident BF would be "if not the best-looking console game this year, up there with the competition", adding that his goal was to "prove it rather than talk about it".

Bach then told us that the game was pushing both 360 and PS3 to the "absolute limit", so we asked if DICE had a watchful eye on the next generation from Sony and Microsoft - and if the lauded Frostbite 2.0 engine could cope with a new generation.

A confident Bach replied: "I don't know what the big corporations are thinking but definitely we are desperate to move on into the next generation. I think Battlefield 3 will look like a next-generation game and all the technology we're building, the whole Frostbite 2 system - the animations, audio, everything - is trying to aim for a couple of years in the future, rather than looking at what we have today.

"We are already there. If [Microsoft or Sony] were to release a new console tomorrow, the engine would scale onto that platform, because we have been looking at not only the PC technology today but also speculating what will happen tomorrow when it comes to these things. So everything from our streaming technologies [to] rendering technologies is scalable onto future platforms."

Source: CVG

I hope new systems come out soon too actually.

It's also rumoured that Nintendo will announce a new console at E3. It's funny because on one hand you have devs complaining about the costs of making a game on current gen hardware, yet they are crying out for newer, obviously more expensive hardware. lol

Stoney wrote:

It's also rumoured that Nintendo will announce a new console at E3. It's funny because on one hand you have devs complaining about the costs of making a game on current gen hardware, yet they are crying out for newer, obviously more expensive hardware. lol

oh the irony of developers.

Stoney wrote:

It's also rumoured that Nintendo will announce a new console at E3. It's funny because on one hand you have devs complaining about the costs of making a game on current gen hardware, yet they are crying out for newer, obviously more expensive hardware. lol

The only devs that crying out for new hardware are the ones that know their games are going to sell.

Not the ones that are making games like Deadly Premonition or something else obscure.