Electronic Arts Chief Financial Officer Blake Jorgensen spoke at the Technology, Internet & Media Conference this week (via IGN) and discussed the future of the Titanfall franchise. He went as far as suggesting that the sequel to the hit first-person shooter could be a multi-platform release. That means that the game could be released on Sony PlayStation consoles. Titanfall was only available for Xbox One, Xbox 360 and Windows PC. If Electronic Arts takes the franchise in that direction, it would certainly benefit the players as well as the publisher.
Jorgensen stated: “Last year it was on the Xbox only; in the future, we haven’t yet announced, but we’ll probably have another Titanfall game. It will probably be a bigger footprint than just a single platform. I think that’s a huge positive for us.” It is difficult to get too excited and really start holding one’s breath over Jorgensen’s statement. This was hardly an official announcement of “Titanfall 2 Coming to a PS4 Near You Soon.” However, the release of the sequel for Titanfall certainly stands to widen the game’s fanbase.
Platform exclusives are becoming more and more passe and frustrating to fans. Fans become outraged when a game is announced and it is not multi-platform. Cases in point: Bayonetta 2 only available for the Wii U; and Tomb Raider simply being a timed exclusive for the Xbox One and Xbox 360. In conclusion, it is becoming much more rare to see a triple-A game release that does not receive a multi-platform release.
Electronic Arts and Respawn Entertainment have shut Titanfall off from millions of dollars by not releasing the game on the PlayStation 4. The PlayStation 4 console has sold over 18 million units. That means there is a huge boatload of players who unable to play the Titanfall game on that console. Release Titanfall on PlayStation 4, and EA and Respawn stand to double their earnings and perhaps even triple sales of Titanfall. Sales for the Xbox One may have increased over the holidays, but that does not eliminate the fact that Sony has sold more PlayStation 4 consoles than Microsoft has sold Xbox Ones. Now that the market has had time to adjust, and Electronic Arts has had time to evaluate sales data for consoles, I imagine that the CFO can clearly see the benefits of making Titanfall 2 a multi-platform release beyond Microsoft formats.
So far, no other details or news about Titanfall 2 have been revealed. This news is far from official, but it would not surprise me at all if, in a year or so, Titanfall 2 is confirmed for PlayStation 4.
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