EA’s upcoming first-person shooter, Battlefield 4 won’t support motion control because it adds nothing to the game, according to DICE executive producer Patrick Bach.
“We are not interested in things that don’t make the game better,” Bach told Edge.
“There are a lot of gimmicks – people throwing money at us – ‘can you implement support for this quirky control thing’. No, it doesn’t make the game better.
We are extremely open to innovation, but if it’s a gimmick, there’s no point unless it adds value to the player. Touch screens used to be a gimmick, because no-one could get it to work until iPhone came out and used it right.
It adds to the experience, and now everyone is doing it. To us it’s the same with motion control and perceptual gaming in general; if it adds, great. If it’s a gimmick, ignore it,” he concluded.
Battlefield 4, a genre-defining action blockbuster launching in Fall 2013 for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PC, will be powered by the advanced technology of DICE’s proprietary Frostbite 3 engine.
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