Speaking at Rezzed down in Brighton, Gearbox boss Randy Pitchford has discussed a potential – but unlikely – Vita version of Borderlands 2.
“I’d love to see a Vita version of the game,” said Pitchford during a developer session for the upcoming shooter sequel. “I want to be able to have the character I’m working on with my PS3, and then when I’m on the road with my Vita I can just keep developing that same character because it exists on the cloud somewhere.
However, with a new Brothers in Arms, Aliens: Colonial Marines, and a rumoured new Duke project in development along with Borderlands 2, Gearbox doesn’t have the manpower to work on a portable instalment in-house. “We’re too busy to develop it ourselves. But I know there are a lot of talented developers who could take our code, our source and our content and perhaps create something like that.”
It doesn’t sound like Pitchford has much faith in 2K green-lighting the portable version themselves though: “Perhaps some of you folks can convince Sony to start that,” he said to the session’s audience.
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Source: Eurogamer
DixNeuf
I’d settle just for Borderlands, even without cloud saving, the perfect sort of game for the Vita IMO.
colmshan1990
Love Borderlands, it’d be one of my dream Vita games.
Please, let some studio port it. PLEASE!!!
KeRaSh
Watch them disable remote play anyways… That would be the easiest way toget BL2 on a Vita.
Gamoc
It’s not just an option to disable if the developer is feeling a bit mean one day, you know, they have to work on it to get it to work.
Joshua Hood
It actually is. It might not work well if it’s not optimised, but the actual allowing or not of Remote Play is a yes/no switch.
colmshan1990
But it would have to be optimised, and you wouldn’t be able to play online, a big part of why so many (although not me, I’m a single-player guy) enjoy Borderlands so much.
hazelam
why wouldn’t you be able to play online?
the game is still running on the ps3, just using the vita as a controller and display.
assuming we’re still talking about remote play of course.
Gamoc
I more meant that pretty much anything is going to need optimisation and work to get it working to any kind of playable standard ;-)
I regret saying it the way I did, I look stupid. I’ll put this cone on my head and sit in a corner.
Gamoc
Yes please. Would give me yet another reason to continue wishing I could get a Vita.
Jim Hargreaves
Would be pretty sweet.
To me the Vita is great for two sorts of game:
– On the fly games such as MS:RC, Little Deviant etc.
– Dungeon crawlers of similar RPGs
Warrior’s Lair and some iteration of Monster Hunter are still my “top” games.
Taylor Made
Wait they working on a duke project, I wonder how many years they been working on that ha what a joke!!
TSBonyman
New Duke game? Great! I enjoyed the last game despite it’s flaws. Hopefully they can do the Duke justice now they’ve gotten that 90’s monkey off their back.
ico
“rumoured new Duke project”? Seriously? Has that horse not been well and truly flogged to death?!
Sympozium
Oi, respect the Duke.
Sympozium
Rather that they’d be arsed to do it, PSP was perfect for 4-player Co-op.
hazelam
if sony make the game, do they then get to publish it as well?
Tienpawa
Gearbox can send the source code to a Sony studio (Santa Monica or San Diego for example) and they only get credited as a developer. Sony can’t be publisher though.
Joshua Hood
Sony would never develop a game to be published by anyone but them. I’m guessing if this ever came to pass, it’d be Gearbox credited as main developer, with whoever ports it as assistant developer, and then 2K and Sony working out something so they both co-publish it.