Koller Alludes To Possible BioShock Vita 2012 Release
Sony’s Director of Hardware Marketing, John Koller, recently answered a number of fan questions about Sony’s PlayStation Vita, which had its First Edition Bundle released today. In a response to one of the questions, Koller mentioned BioShock Vita in a vague, but interesting way.
In response to one of the questions in the PS Blog Q&A, Koller gave the following response:
We’ve got over a 100 games in development, we’ve got 25 games for launch – it’s the most we’ve ever had. I think the thing that’s been interesting over the last 3-4 years is that we’ve got the publishers involved, the publishers actually helped us design this as well. The publishers were saying that we want to be making a console experience and we want to be having something similar on handheld – not a port – but we actually want to be making something on the system that, y’know, makes us feel that it’s got the depth and the richness that we create on the console side of things. So you see a game like Call of Duty, the Activision developers are saying: ‘Y’know, look, the only place that we can actually get a console like experience is actually on PS Vita.’ So that’s a game coming in the back half of the year. We’ve got games like Assassin’s Creed and BioShock and even from us Resistance and LittleBigPlanet – really the biggest and best games are coming.
What’s interesting about Koller’s comment is that he has listed BioShock Vita in the same company as other titles that have been said to be coming out this year, including Resistance, LittleBigPlanet, and Call of Duty. Ubisoft has already revealed that Assassin’s Creed Vita could be coming out in this calendar year in a release schedule.
Koller had previously listed Mortal Kombat, as well as some of the above-mentioned titles, in a comment about upcoming PlayStation Vita titles that he had made at this year’s CES.
Now, Koller could’ve just as easily been listing Vita titles off of the top of his head and mentioned BioShock Vita in passing. No announcements have been made about BioShock Vita’s release date whatsoever. Series creator Ken Levine had said last October that BioShock Vita was “still sort of in the paper design stage.” However, Levine also had said that he had spoken with some “extraordinary people” about a possible outsourcing of BioShock Vita. Levine further commented that he wasn’t ready to commit to a studio just yet, if outsourcing was even going to happen.
What do you think? Share your thoughts in the comments below.
8 Responses to “Koller Alludes To Possible BioShock Vita 2012 Release”
All complaints aside, the Vita’s got games.
I know this is off subject, but we NEEEEEED an update posted about the podcast! you guys were the only good playstation podcast in the first half of the week. It’s been toooooo long!
We’re recording the new episode right now!
OMG YEEEEEESSSSS!!!! thanks for the super fast response too! Am I allowed to know when this episode will be up???? anyways, good luck on the new show! hope it’s great!
Should be up tomorrow, latest Friday. And yes, it will be awesome!
I’ll have to see some details maybe even when the game takes place it would be interesting if it was a prequel to Bioshock 1
I’m thinking he listed those together because they are all console games, not because they have a similar release schedule…
Love. Going to be an awesome year for my sexy new handheld. I hope all that happens this year. I am very satisfied with my new Vita. Still holding my breath for Gravity Rush. I am having some issues with my Vita not being able to connect to PS3 for remote play though… Anyone with any ideas? i have both systems linked, everything seems to be set right, but just doesn’t connect!