UPDATED 16/02/17 - Cities comes to Xbox One!

[Daronaollard]

But...but I thought paradox was loyal to the PC master race.

Think about it, we will benefit most from the console purchases. It will support future development for the company won't it?

Seriously though, even though I don't own any console this is nice to see.

 

[TheDungen]

Wait. I thought Paradox Interactive had some sort of strategic partnership thingy with Sony.

So did I, I am elated to find out that I was wrong. Now Bring me magica for xbox!

 

[Mr Maison]

My only concern is if the development or porting will not in any way reduce the maturity of the PC experience we have. IMO it's not a PC vs Console thing. It's the whole "reaching a broader audience" vs "the City Building Challenge for the Seasoned City Builders" thing that makes me a bit nervous. It's the main thing that caused massive failure with the last few companies who released city building games. They underestimated the genius and creativity of many in this genre. As long as there is assurance that the xbox1 version is on totally different rails than our PC version, I'm good. But if the game is changed and gimped, reducing depth in any way for the sake of the broader audience, this will end badly for your core city builder crowd. If we have to update to the same version of xbox1, I request that we have an option to play older versions and skip any updates if we want but have more open modding to compensate.

Other than that, I hope this all works out. Then the question of paid mods can be moved over to the console since they won't have as much creative access that PCs have. Then everyone will be happy.

 

[Zed68]

Completely agreeing with Maison on this.

I truly hope nothing will be dumbed down for the pc version for the sake of porting the game to xbox.


Please don't do this mistake.

 

[loup99]

Good for them. As long as you do not change the PC version for X-box players I'm fine with it. But is the same team working on both? That might reduce the features we get for PC, which is less than optimal.

 

[Inge Jones]

Well it's a Unity engine game, and Unity recently updated their suite to make it easier to port games to other platforms. So we can expect to see more of this type of sideways expansion happening.

 

[sermaciej]

I don't think that this kind of game will be fun to play with gamepad, but you probably know better.

 

[crowdemon]

Best city building game for a long time.

Fantastic news for you.

 

[lew1984]

Its good news for owners of consoles who don't have a PC who want to enjoy this game. I only hope you guys don't start going down the console route and abandoning PC and dumbing everything down to suit consoles... For example I'm not sure how well/enjoyable this game will play out using a joypad. I worry things will be simplified for console and ruin the depth the PC version has. I'm not anti console I have a PS3 but these sort of games are better suited to mouse/keyboard.

 

[safe-keeper]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but can't you connect a USB mouse and keyboard to modern consoles? That'd make it a breeze to play the game.

Otherwise... I think I'll get Skylines for PC, not a console . Can't imagine playing strategy games with a gamepad.

 

[Zoob]

Considering the Cities Skylines interface feels like it could easily be adapted for touch functionality and a lot of the zoning and road placement is using brushes, I imagine this is perfectly suited for consoles and gamepads. I'm very excited at the prospect.

 

[Funkhornet]

hmmm. IMO there are type of games which are better to Play on a console. Sport, Racing etc. AND there are games which are absolutly bad for a console. For example a City builder.

The other point is. Cities is a wonderful game BUT it still has a lot of Problems an bugs. Solve the big Problems first before you go to the next big step.

Greets.

 

[Zoob]

This argument is as old as the internet, why should console players be denied city builders and strategy games, why should pc gamers be denied good sports and racing games. Not being able to properly design and optimise your game for the platform you're selling it on is poor design, not that the platform is inherently bad at the game type.

 

[Anttonilla]

Is Colossal Order developing the Xbox version? If so, then I would assume that the xbox version will indeed hurt the development of the PC version. (Or have you hired someone to port the game?)

 

[GeneralPetrov]

So supposedly this wont effect development much, because apparently Unity can be easily converted to Xbox.

But I still don't understand the reasoning behind this. I could be wrong, but I doubt it's a financial issue considering how much revenue has been generated so far for such a small studio. So whats the point in porting it over to console already? Would it not be better to properly polish, fix and refine the current state of the game? Just me?

I don't know, maybe it will work out well, but I kind of have a bad feeling about this.

 

[hillcf]

But remember that Microsoft has announced that Win 10 will be ported onto the Xbox console. The Xbox One console is advertised as running Win 10 http://www.xbox.com/en-GB/windows-10 , which will then be capable of running Unity and Cities Skylines, as well as any other PC games. The implication is that Xbox 360 and early versions will not have that support.

 

[Anttonilla]

But remember that Microsoft has announced that Win 10 will be ported onto the Xbox console. The Xbox One console is advertised as running Win 10 http://www.xbox.com/en-GB/windows-10 , which will then be capable of running Unity and Cities Skylines, as well as any other PC games. The implication is that Xbox 360 and early versions will not have that support.

I thought Xbox was only Windows 10 by supporting Universal Apps. I might be wrong though. And even if it's as easy as you say, it still requires some UI and controller work. I just hope Xbox players like it and buy it. Money for CO is the only way how PC side can benefit from this.

I still don't like this, The Sims on consoles suck, why this would be good?

 

[akeela84]

I just hope that the Windows 10 news will be something good. Like performance increase and so on.

 

[carcinomatum]

hahahaha.
What a stupid idea..

 

[Brazilian Joe]

Modding is the heart and soul of the game. I wonder how it could possibly work? Probably wouldn't be based off Steam Workshop.

Maybe Microsoft is spearheading a workshop-style service for Xbox game modding in the november update?

If they do it, it would be a slam dunk in terms of functionality.