Creative Assembly on next-gen Total War: "Never say never"

During a recent event in Rome for Total War: Rome II, we caught up with Creative Assembly's Al Bickham and found out a bit more about the latest entry in the series.

With the impending launch of the next-gen consoles from Sony and Microsoft just around the corner, we asked if that was something that they had their eye on with view to a possible future port.

"I say never say never," the communications manager told us. "We're certainly not planning for Rome II. We're not planning to do any Total War games on console. What I would say is that the hardware limitations of consoles are rapidly disappearing."

"These are very powerful machines," Bickham continued. "We don't have the kind of memory limitations and bandwidth limitations that we had in the past. Like I said, we're not planning on it, but I think it's safe to say that with every new console or handheld device release, we always look at it and go "how does Total War fit with that, how can we make it fit with that?" So we consider everything that comes along."

You can read our preview of Total War: Rome II here, and tomorrow we'll be publishing the full discussion with Al Bickham, together with interviews with James Russell and Jamie Ferguson. Make sure you check back on the site.