REDWOOD CITY, Calif. June 18 - The engine used to power all of Electronic Arts' next-gen sports titles, EA Sports Ignite, currently does not support Windows PC or Wii U, but that may change in the future, EA Sports executive VP Andrew Wilson told Polygon in an interview published on Monday.
"Even though there were some PCs on the marketplace that could run that engine, the lion's share of PCs on the marketplace could not," said Wilson, referring to the technology that made it into FIFA 11. "And the majority of the gamer base that was playing the game on PC did not have a PC spec that would work with that."
"So could I see the potential for EA Sports Ignite to make it to PC in the future? Yes, I think it's possible, but a couple of things need to happen," Wilson added.
First, the average hardware specs of the PCs ran by PC playing FIFA players needs to go up, otherwise it lacks business sense for EA to move in that direction. Secondly, "there needs to be some adjustment in terms of how EA Sports Ignite works to facilitate the open nature of PC architecture, rather than the closed nature of console architecture", Wilson explained.
SOURCE: Polygon
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