Gothic 4 originally officially announced as a PC and consoles game by Jowood
http://www.jowood.com/?lang=en&site=1&gameid=&start=21#top
JoWooD presents Gothic 4 developer[2007-08-23]
Liezen, Austria, 23rd of August: JoWooD Productions Software AG is proud to present the Spellbound Entertainment AG as the official developing team for Gothic 4. One of the most convincing and central arguments for choosing pellbound, was the scope of RPG experience brought in by Spellbound team member Jochen Hamma, who was involved in creating the legendary "Nordland Trilogy" based upon the Pen & Paper RPG "Das Schwarze Auge". Furthermore, Spellbound has created own tools for achieving exceptional standards in Quality and Quality Assurance. Both parties are confident to produce a game of highest quality, and Spellbound intends to focus on the traditional strengths of the brand, setting new standards in the original, authentic Gothic essentials.
At the Games Convention 2007 in Leipzig, Mr. Jochen Hamma, Spellbounds Executive Producer, is showing the first facts and plans to curious fans and special interest media, outlining which strengths are essentially to be intensified, and which weaknesses are tagged for elimination.
In addition to these efforts, Spellbound will work together with the community patch taskforce in order to create a new patch for Gothic 3 during the next weeks. This is an additional proof that JoWooD Productions keeps supporting the Gothic 3 community and does not neglect that further work has to be made in order to exceed customers' and gamers' expectations.
Gothic 4 is being developed for PC and Current Gen console systems, a release date will be announced in the coming weeks.
In a latest interview though, the developers said they know nothing about a console version !!!
http://gothicz.net/index.php?sekce=gothic4&document=clanky.080531interview
straight from the devs themselves:
14. Budou nejake rozdily mezi verzi z PC a verzi z PS3 nebo XBox360? Jak to vypada s podporou DirectX10? EDL:My jako vyvojar jsme jeste
oficialne nepotvrdili, ze vyvijime pro jinou platformu nez PC. Nektere magaziny, zda se, vedi vice .
english translation:
14. Will there bne any dffreremces between PC version and PS3/360 version? What about dx10 suppoer
EDL: We, as the game creators have yet to confirm we plan to release the game on any platform besides PC.Looks like some magazines seem to know more about this than we do.
So, did Jowood lie to all console gamers ?
Also i contacted Jowood, and here is the answer, still nothing clear
> From: Verena Vlajo <vvlajo@jowood.com>
> Subject: AW: Console versions of Gothic 4
> To: my email
> Date: Monday, June 23, 2008, 5:26 PM
> Hello,
>
> We did announce last year at GC that we are planning to do
> the game for next gen consoles. So far we haven't
> confirmed or denied any next gen console. Please be patient
> and wait for an official announcement.
>
> Thx
>
> Verena Vlajo
> PR Coordinator
>
> JoWooD Productions
> Heiligenstadter Stra?e 201 / 19
> A-1190 Wien
> Austria
>
> tel: +43 (0)3612 2828 1056
> fax: +43 (0)3612 2828 1064
> mail: vvlajo@jowood.com
> http://corporate.jowood.com
Let's all hope for the best, and that Jowood will come true to their promise for Gothic 4 on consoles, so we can all enjoy one of the most amazing coming RPGs
Some pics
http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/2446/gothic410aal0.jpg
http://img378.imageshack.us/img378/5232/gothic48asu8.jpg
http://img118.imageshack.us/img118/9253/gothic49akx1.jpg
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