Developers Says That Current Gen Consoles “can’t cope” With Total War

<p>Mike Simpson from Creative Assembly says that the current generation of consoles will not be able to work with their popular RTS Total War&period; &&num;8220&semi;They don&&num;8217&semi;t have enough memory&comma; by a large factor&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Simpson tells <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;eurogamer&period;net&sol;articles&sol;2012-03-30-current-generation-cant-cope-with-total-war-says-ca">Eurogamer<&sol;a>&period; The audience for console games tends to be a little more action-oriented and a little less strategy focused&comma; and the experiences are very different as well&comma; he asserts&period; But there&&num;8217&semi;s hope yet&comma; &&num;8220&semi;for all sorts of reasons&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He also goes on to say that the interface is another obstacle that they would have to hurdle over&comma; but with solid game design they could pull it off&period; Creative Assembly says that they have some &&num;8220&semi;very clever ideas&&num;8221&semi; to port their game into the next generation of consoles and still maintain that pick-up and play style&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a style&equals;"font-style&colon; normal&semi; line-height&colon; 21px&semi; text-decoration&colon; underline&semi; text-align&colon; center&semi;" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;bagogames&period;com&sol;developers-says-that-current-gen-consoles-cant-cope-total-war&sol;shogun2-tw-03-lg&sol;" rel&equals;"attachment wp-att-9549"><img class&equals;"size-medium wp-image-9549 aligncenter" style&equals;"border-style&colon; initial&semi; border-color&colon; initial&semi; margin-top&colon; 0&period;4em&semi; background-image&colon; initial&semi; background-attachment&colon; initial&semi; background-origin&colon; initial&semi; background-clip&colon; initial&semi; background-color&colon; &num;eeeeee&semi;" title&equals;"Shogun-2-massive-onslaught-of-people" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2012&sol;03&sol;06224637&sol;shogun2&period;tw&lowbar;&period;03&period;lg&lowbar;-300x168&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Total War" width&equals;"300" height&equals;"168" &sol;><&sol;a><span style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">&lbrack;via <&sol;span><a style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;joystiq&period;com&sol;2012&sol;03&sol;31&sol;current-gen-consoles-cant-cope-with-traditional-total-war&sol;">joystiq<&sol;a><span style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">&rsqb;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;