Hitman: Absolution dev says game limited by current gen - Report

Well, make it for the next gen then and stop complaining about his current gen.

Got tired of developers complaining about the "limitations" of this current gen trying to push the next gen to come earlier.

Let Sony and Microsoft take their time.

I bet some developers when the next gen gen comes, they will complain that its bit complicated to make games on PS4 or Xbox, like they did with PS3 for some years now.

Let the next gen come when it's ready.

Stupid excuse, if they say consoles are limiting them, keep the game a PC exclusive, or develop one for the platform from the ground up. This installment'd better be damn good, for their sake.

I get their point, older technology can't keep up with ideas... But why bring this up now? Say it AFTER release, now it just sounds like you got lazy and want expectations to be low. Or is this a slow transition into Molyneuxitis where you'll promise the world with amazing ideas and then give up and just make a tapping game?

I kinda wish that developers would make different versions for pc than consoles since pc's have (not all I guess) way better hardware. Then developers could possibly allow for way better graphics.

Having 2nd thoughts of getting this now........just because they are making excuses when there are plenty of great games on both platforms .......ugh

(face palm) Well... that's why you develop for pc and do lossy ports to consoles! DERP DE DO!!!

Really, is it that hard of a concept?

It's hardware all the way from 2005, so of course they're limited by it.

Right. You see GTA 5 and you think Hitman can even measure up to that? Right. Making advanced apologies for making crap. Love this new tactic.

Sniper challenge had a few issues but it was just a demo... I hope the final build is smoother, I've never seen a game having such performance drops when you dare set some AA and AF.

I have some friends on that team, and I heard the same thing.

Well, the 720/PS4 should release next year, if not both, one of them.

Art direction and graphical prowess are mutually exclusive. You can always make something look better given what direction it took, but it's magnum opus will still be the same....only prettier. How you use the tools you are given is what truly matters.

@HipHopBeats What hype? Never has any Hitman game been hyped up. The game is coming out soon and all I see are Blops 2 commercials. Also so many developers are complaining about the lack of hardware. That isn't making excuses.

I'm curious just what "things" he wanted to implement that he couldn't. Interestingly enough he doesn't offer any examples.....

of course they are goin to focus on consoles because of the sales, pc version probably is goin to suck wich is sad.

So put more work on the PC version then. PS3 and 360 are max out. Most people already know that. Also why do some people in the comments say he is talking bad about his game. He's clearly saying that is a challenge to make new games with old technology.

The obvious solutions is to develop for PC and then underdevelop the game for crappy consoles such as PS3 and XBOX 360 :).

Hope they didn't have to **** up the PC version because of some other garbage.

So he's already defending the game? I find it hard to respect someone who already expects bad reviews or is afraid of criticism. Oh well, the game looks pretty good, but the whining is going to get old if we keep getting these types of articles.

Well I think a lot of comments here are right, I will just add that I would rather have a dev team feel like they couldn't reach their goals, but try their best to give me a great experience, rather than a dev team that stays in the past and does not want to evolve. I'm sure this game will still be great, it just won't be as BIG or as SHINY as they wanted it to be. Maybe they had a level in mind where 1000 people were walking around but only could do 100. It is not wrong to dream big. Though the article did come off as a bit snotty. I say, give them this so called power they want. See what they can do.

He's not saying it looks bad because it doesn't, it actually looks amazing. Just saying it could look better, but really, what honest, humble dev doesn't say that about their game?

The developers really hate this game, don't they? That's the 3rd time I see someone of the development team saying things that might impact negatively on the game's impression. Well, at least they're being honest.

this really isnt the thing to be telling the news when your game is about to come out. lol, that's a pretty stupid thing to say a week before release.

@Devils-DIVISION actually hitman looks really great and plays great.

Not very bright to talk negatively about your game when it's not even out yet... Might scare off some potential customers.

Obviously consoles don't have DX11 and can't handle very many high-res textures, so maybe that's what he's talking about

Key words here guys, "Marchesi admitted that there were things he would have liked to see implemented in the XBOX 360 AND PS3 VERSIONS of Hitman: Absolution that weren't possible due to current hardware." Obviously hinting that PC users will be seeing whatever those features are, but consoles won't.

This guy is criticizing his own game, blaming it on the "limitations of current generation hardware" and it hasn't even been released yet. Not too smart.