Guild Wars 2, Blade & Soul console development confirmed

Truth be told, I hadn’t heard of console development plans for Blade & Soul and Guild Wars 2 until now, but apparently everything’s now going smoothly according to NCsoft CEO Kim Taek Jin.

 

[UPDATE] Scratch that. Apparently only a “very small team” is looking into it and there are no definite plans yet.

Thanks to Random for the tip!

 

 

 

Truth be told, I hadn’t heard of console development plans for Blade & Soul and Guild Wars 2 until now, but apparently everything’s now going smoothly. This according to a report from MMOSite.

 

NCsoft CEO Kim Taek Jin confirmed console development during a conference call yesterday. NCsoft had apparently been looking into possible console development for their MMORPGs last year, although at the time they declined to confirm it outright. Kim clarified however that they still haven’t finalized any marketing plans for the games’ console versions.

 

Guild Wars 2 and Blade & Soul are both slated for release next year. Kim also confirmed during the conference call that Blade & Soul‘s open beta would start in the first half of 2010.

 

[UPDATE] ArenaNet community manager Regina Buenaobra has clarified that only a very small team is currently looking into developing Guild Wars 2 for consoles and that there are no definite plans for a console port at this time. The bulk of thew development team is still focued on the PC version.

 

 

Thanks to Random for the tip!

 

 

 

Via [MMOSite]