Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown is currently in development for PlayStation, Xbox, PC, and Nintendo Switch platforms, with the green flag set to drop on Septemon all platforms. They can do a lot with a game even if it's "cross-gen".As part of yesterday’s Nacon Connect presentation, the publisher announced that the next entry in the prestigious Test Drive Unlimited series will hit the gas this fall. Not that it'll stop them from adding next-gen graphical features on the PS5/XBS versions of the game either, though. They can, as they say, " (make) the most of the technology in the latest consoles" by concentrating on updating fewer platforms at a time, but don't get your hopes up for amazing next-gen graphics and physics just because it's not anchored by PS4 or Xbox One anymore. This will now be their first "next-gen only" racing game project, albeit plus Switch, and it's only delayed however many months so they will not be replacing their engine just because it's now dropping past-gen.Ĭutting past-gen in all likelihood will not make this "more next-gen", not anymore than dropping past-gen affected Gotham Knights. TDU Solar Crown is being made on a modified version of the KT Engine (they actually started working off of the WRC 8 framework, and WRC 10 came out most recently, although it'll certainly be its own heavily improved branch unrecognizable from either previous or current WRCs.) KT Engine has supported games on all major platforms, with enhancements available for modern-gen games that are removed/replaced/scaled down for lesser platforms. TDU2 was "next-gen-only", which is sort of a shame since the PSP version was pretty amazing in its day. Impressive ports, but games are made and maintained differently these days, and that's unlikely to be the model for TDU Solar Crown. (For reference, the PS2/PSP versions of TDU1 came out half a year later, by a different developer, and were not cross-play on any platform. Plus, TDU Solar Crown will be an online game (the Steam profile literally labels it a "MMO",) and these days maintaining two service communities is too much operating procedure for companies to make per-platform versions. They don't make custom versions of games too often anymore, with scaling usually being within range of possibilities. Not that it'll be bad (I'm hoping KT Racing actually has the goods and can push KT Engine past TT Isle of Man, even though the publisher is gunshy about showing it.) It's just that TDU Solar Crown be a 2022 game that had to move its date back. Just don't want people getting their hopes too heated expecting a "true next-gen game" when we actually see gameplay. NACON has decided to no longer develop Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One", you can do the math for yourself. Perhaps yes, canceling PS4/Xbox One may indeed alleviate some technical hurdles, but the game they were making yesterday before they settled on dropping past-gen (and had been making for several years) will be more or less the same game they ship 12-18 months from now.īTW, there's still a Switch version, so when they tell you that " with the aim of making the most of the technology in the latest consoles. Cutting out the sagging hardware now will save them some resources and make updates easier to deliver going forward. Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown is an online game, and sales trends are falling off on past-gen by the time this ships, there won't be enough worth to carry support for the aging platforms. Heh, are they still going to show a new CG video of TDU Solar Crown this year? It's been so exciting to tune in for game reveals and be treated to those exciting CGI clips of how exciting cars are to look at and how gambling is exciting.īTW, for those who haven't been through this before: dropping the past-gen game does not mean that this is suddenly more next-gen than it was before, that now they can go crazy with insane graphics and amazing physics and huge numbers of online players and whatever was being held back by those Jaguar cores.
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