BlackBox are to develop the next entry within the Need for Speed series, according to comments from EA’s Senior Vice President Patrick Soderlund during an interview with Eurogamer.
Whilst Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, developed by Criterion Games, is just weeks away from release, EA had announced in August that they were to release a sequel to Need for Speed: Shift towards the end of 2011.
The reasoning for such a decision is down to an alternating developer strategy Soderlund states, similar to that employed by Activision with the Call of Duty series in which Treyarch and Infinity Ward share duties.
"We want to reach a mass-market audience, and Hot Pursuit is a more mass-market appealing product than Shift," said Soderlund. "We want to come back with an action adventure type of product on an annual basis, but from a developer that’s been working on it for a couple of years. Maybe there are two or three developers going at it every second year. Then, when the market permits and when we feel ready, we’ll come up with Shift versions as well."
Tags: Need for Speed
Crysis 3, Medal of Honor: Warfighter, Borderlands 2 and Far Cry 3 previews plus reviews for Prototype 2, Sniper Elite V2 and The Witcher 2.
Download Now!
