Ancel: Beyond Good & Evil 2 would be “possible” but “painful” on current-gen platforms
If Ubisoft ever develops Beyond Good & Evil 2, it will be made for next-gen consoles based on the fact that a new lifecycle is upon us. Current-gen consoles haven’t but ruled out, but it would apparently be “painful” to make happen.
When asked if he would be able to accomplish what he has in mind for Beyond Good & Evil 2 on current-gen systems, creator Michel Ancel said:
“I think [on current platforms] Beyond Good & Evil 2 was possible, but it’d be painful. It’s always possible to do anything on any kind of console, but sometimes you need to spend your energy not on the optimizations or things like that. Now that we have the [new] consoles around the corner we’re working on them. We’re trying to see how we can get the power out of those consoles because there are still things we need to understand on those consoles, but yes, Beyond Good & Evil is a project I always have in mind and I hope good things will come for this project very soon.”
Regardless of where you stand on the current-gen/next-gen debate for Wii U, there’s no denying that its power is closer to the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 as opposed to the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. That could make a Wii U version of Beyond Good & Evil 2 unlikely in that case.
