Tripwire Interactive revealed that Killing Floor 2 is coming to the PlayStation 4 because games are much more expensive to make these days and Sony has opened up the platform to independent developers.
President of Tripwire Interactive John Gibson said in a post to the company's forums, "We've been very successful on PC selling million of games, and we've no intention of leaving the PC or relegating the PC to a 'second class citizen.'"
"We love the PC as a platform and have been championing it for years, even in the dark days of 2005 when all the press could talk about was how the 'PC was dead.'"
And when asked why Killing Floor 2 will be the company's first game to release on a console, he gives three main reasons:
First, Gibson said, is that the current generation consoles are more powerful, and have an architecture much more similar to a PC, a sentiment we've heard from other developers as well.
Secondly, he said that Tripwire decided to work with Sony because it allows it to remain "fiercely independent," unlike previous other console manufacturers who would not work with Tripwire unless it went through bigger publisher.
Lastly, Gibson said that games are just much more expensive to make now.
"When we made [Red Orchestra] we had 4 employees, [Killing Floor] we had 11 employees, [Red Orchestra 2] started with 7 employees and got up to 25 by the time it shipped," he said.
"[Killing Floor 2] is being developed by 50 people. With game development costs rising it is very important as a business to make your games available in as many places as possible, to as many potential customers as possible."
Killing Floor 2 uses a system called M.E.A.T. which stands for Massive Evisceration and Trauma. The system offers 22 dismemberment points, 95 death animations and persistent blood on all enemies. The panel goes over that and takes a look at some of the destructible environments, enemy design but the game is already scheduled for release on PC and PlayStation 4 in 2015.
