Speaking with IGN, Activision Publishing’s CEO, Eric Hirshberg,
confirmed Sledgehammer’s upcoming Call of Duty game is being developed primarily for next-gen platforms. The news came after last week’s earnings call, during which Activision revealed that Sledgehammer was developing 2014’s Call of Duty game.
"Sledgehammer is approaching this as a next-gen-first development,” says Hirschberg. “Obviously in the console-transition year, anyone who developed a cross-generational game last year had to deal with the fact that the technology of the next-gen platforms was still coming into focus and changing quite a bit during the development process…. Now that we have the next-gen hardware out in the marketplace and solid,
that is our primary development."
Activision
expects Sledgehammer’s Call of Duty to be different from what’s been offered by Infinity Ward and Treyarch. “We give each of our studios a lot of independence,” he says. Seeing the work Sledgehammer did helping Infinity Ward with Modern Warfare 3, Activision’s message to the new studio is “You know what makes this thing great; now go do it your way.” Unfortunately, Activision isn’t quite ready to talk specifically about what Sledgehammer’s Call of Duty will be like, only saying, "the proof will be in the pudding,” adding, “When you see it, hopefully, you’ll see what I’m talking about."
http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/02/10/914602