Holy Moly, Photek am cry.
IGN UK wrote:When asked whether or not the team wishes they could change anything about the original product, Respawn COO Dusty Welch said, "Platform for me comes to mind right away." Though Zampella then explained, "Well, we needed that, though. We couldn't do the game," Dusty clarified the exclusivity was always 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.
It was logical really. Activision were clever in that they made an exclusive promotional partnership with Sony but still released their game on Xbox 360 and XBO! Their reward was a multi-platform mega-hit. EA have yet to release Xbox One-only sales figures - it's safe to say the game under performed and they dropped the ball by missing out on the spending power of the unexpected and larger PS4 userbase. Reviews were positive but it wasn't the draw to make people buy the Xbox One with Kinect. I haven't played it but when other equivalent games have multiplayer and single player campaign for the same price they are perceived to have more value.
But why release this news now? I'm wondering if it is to soften the PR for Microsoft when the game is unveiled at E3- a reveal there that it's multiformat would seem like a win for PS4. Or is simply Zampella being a boss and saying what he wants to say without waiting for permission!