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First PS4 and Xbox One Games Won't Impress That Much, Battlefield 4 Dev Says

DICE also believes that cross-generation games will appear for two more years

Jun 25, 2013 11:05 GMT  ·  By
Battlefield 4 looks good on next-gen consoles
   Battlefield 4 looks good on next-gen consoles

The first round of games for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One won't look that impressive, as developers are still learning about the next-generation consoles, at least according to Battlefield 4 studio DICE.

The PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles saw the announcement of many impressive games for them earlier this month, at E3 2013.

While a few are exclusive to one of the consoles, others are cross-generation experiences that will still appear for PC, PS3, or Xbox 360.

According to DICE's Patrick Soderlund, the first batch of games for the new consoles will pale in comparison to experiences that will appear after a few more years, as studios need time to get to know the devices.

"The first games out on a console generation are frankly never the best ones. If you just look at what came out at the beginning of the last cycle compared to where we ended up seven years later... it is a significant difference, right? That's the journey that players will take from now," he told CVG.

"Even though we feel like there is a lot of innovation - and trust me, there is a lot of innovation in gen 4 - I think that as we learn to use these machines better and as our technology gets better and our ideas get better, I think we can come up with even more interesting games three or four years from now. I think there's a lot of room for these consoles to grow."

What's more, Soderlund also mentioned that cross-generation games will continue to appear until the next-gen devices sell enough copies.

"Right now, it's always this way in the first wave where the majority of sales will still be on the old consoles - that's just how it is, because there's not enough installed base on the new machines yet. Historically the first year out most titles have been cross-gen, then the second year there's less and less, but in year three you'll probably see everything apart from maybe one or two games in the industry on that end. So I think it will take about 18 to 24 months to get to full gen 4."

DICE parent company EA mentioned already that it will continue supporting current-generation consoles for some time.