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Can SWTOR come on console
Hello, Firstly I would like to address that I am in love with EA! I've been a big fan of EA games as long as I can remember. And would like to say thank you for the enjoyment you have given gamers ...
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Sorry to disappoint you, but the chance of SWTOR coming to consoles is extremely low.
BioWare would have to port the game over to the OS architecture of each console separately, which is an enormous effort, especially since SWTOR runs on a modified pre-release version of the heroengine.
In addition to that, they would have to restructure the way the game utilizes hardware resources, more specifically, split the current single thread into four to more efficiently use the quad-core AMD APUs the current-gen consoles use, as these APUs have a pretty weak single-core performance and would make playing PVP and Operations virtually impossible.
Also, while it may not be impossible, it will be really hard to make the interface work with console controllers, as their pointing accuracy and number of buttons are undeniably inferior to a mouse and keyboard. (You have 84 quickbar slots in total and most of the keyboard keys are assigned to individual windows. The only ecxeptions here are Space PVE and PVP, which may even work better with a controller than a mouse+keyboard.
In the end it would probably be easier to rebuild the game from scratch with a new engine and with both PC and consoles in mind. The original game (Patch version 1.0) cost over 200M$ to develop (Which makes it the most expensive game ever made excluding marketing cost), so that's just as unlikely to happen in the near future.
I agree that it would be a lot of work, however, i was a massive fan of swtor back in the days of TAB targeting, but i thinl times have moved on and people are more action orientated. With the release of Battlefront 2 I would love to see a complete redesign of swtor for combat in the style of battlefront 2, that would be mint. I know it'd be expensive and time consuming but i think its an investment worth doing as a lot of people love the old lore of the republic and the old sith etc.
Thoughts and ideas on the concept??
Thoughts and ideas on the concept??
Look guys, while it would be amazing to play this game on console, it's literrally impossible. I use non less than 46 buttons to play, It's a brains suicide to try to do that.
It's EA's job to get XBOX games on PC actually, it would be easier... But for as long as people will buy consoles, they won't.
