Vince Zampella has confirmed Titanfall 2 is in development and it will be released on multiple platforms.
Zampella acknowledged the existence of Titanfall 2 to IGN ahead of the BAFTA Game Awards where Titanfall is nominated for 3 categories. This acknowledgment comes just a day after the 1 year anniversary of the launch of Titanfall that has given gamers the gift of free DLC to celebrate.
“I guess EA announced a sequel, so I could play coy and pretend I don’t know anything about it, or… yeah. So we’re working on a sequel. No official name yet, but we’re working on that. That’s the main focus but we’re starting up a second team and doing some smaller stuff too. Small, exploratory, taking it slow! It’ll be multiplatform.”
When asked about changes the team wishes they could have made on the first Titanfall, Respawn COO Dusty Welch said, “Platform for me comes to mind right away.” He then elaborated on that idea by saying, “Well, we needed that, though. We couldn’t do the game,” Dusty clarified that the Xbox exclusivity deal was considered a business decision rather than anything else.
“If we could do it though?” he said. “It would have been prohibitive to do that – we definitely made the right choices for the right reasons – but if you’re saying what would we have liked to have done? The opportunity to be multiplatform could have made it even more significant for us.”
Zampella however, said, “I wouldn’t have done it differently. We set out to do it and it was one of our goals. I mean it obviously prohibits a certain group of people playing the game, and as content creators you want to get into as many peoples’s hands as possible. We put some single-player elements in there though, and tried to mix it up. Maybe we could have mixed things up a bit better because some people blew right by it and didn’t even see it because there was so much action happening around it. It’s tough, because if you hit people over the head with it it becomes intrusive, and there are people who don’t want or care about it. Where does the needle fall? I think it takes a while to figure that out and we haven’t figured it out yet.”
Zampella also praised Evolve’s DLC model by stating, “I think that’s a fantastic way to do it. I think having the maps like that in packs, it does split the community and it makes it harder for matchmaking, it’s messy. Yeah. I don’t know we won’t do it again, I can’t say that for sure, but the idea would be to do something different.”
So Titanfall 2 is in development and it isn’t an exclusive title anymore. The rumors have swirled for months and now we know that the sequel to Titanfall will be releasing on multiple platforms. I say the more the merrier! I want to see Titanfall succeed so this is good news for the series. Does this news excite anyone? I know I’m excited to get my hands on it.
Source: IGN
Aaron Perreault contributed 12 articles to ICXM in 2015, covering Xbox news with a focus on hands-on impressions and verified-source reporting. Their bylines on the site span the Xbox One’s first full year of post-launch coverage, including the early days of Backwards Compatibility and Windows 10 gaming. They post on X as @PxDIZZLE.