14 DAY TRIAL // Infinity Ward has talked about the challenge posed by Call of Duty: Ghosts, its upcoming new first-person shooter, which appears on the PC, PS3, Xbox 360, Wii U, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.
Next-gen consoles – the PS4 and Xbox One – are set to debut this month in a few regions around the world and with them there will be quite a few cross-generation games, titles that appear both on current-gen platforms, like the PS3 or Xbox 360, but also on the new ones, not to mention the PC.
Among them is Call of Duty: Ghosts made by franchise creator Infinity Ward. The new title is going to debut for PC, PS3, Xbox 360, Wii U, PS4, and Xbox One, and to get the title ready on all platforms, the studio had to hire a lot of new people.
"We hired a lot more people for one, but we grew significantly," studio boss Mark Rubin told Videogamer. "We're actually about 150 people at the studio now and it used to be about 70-80. But as far as how [Ghosts] is going specifically, I think we're in a really good spot. We've basically gone gold on everything. We're working on a few additional patches for launch, but we're in a good place."
"It was just a brutal task to get there. To have to not only do two new next-gen consoles, two old-gen consoles, PC and do a new engine and do new content based on a new story and a new world, and doing so much more new stuff, was maybe not the wisest choice, but it was definitely artistically what we wanted the choice to be."
What's more, Infinity Ward wanted to personally take care of the game across as many platforms as possible, although the Wii U edition is coming from Treyarch.
"We weren't going to accept someone else doing current-gen or next-gen for us," he added. "We wanted to do both. We wanted to make sure that we were the ones who did it. We knew it was a lot of work - and it turned out to be a lot of work - but it was definitely what we wanted."
Ghosts is already available on current-gen platforms should debut for next-gen ones soon.