The recently-announced Just Cause 3 will not feature multiplayer capability when it launches in 2015, but developer Avalanche Studios and publisher Square Enix are being coy about the mode being patched in down the road.
In an interview with Game Informer, Avalanche CCO and co-founder Christofer Sundberg said that although the team was focusing on the single-player content for now, they would consider it “maybe sometime down the line.”
Taken on its own, that statement doesn’t seem too encouraging. However, Shinra Technologies – a subsidiary of Square Enix that aims to pioneer cloud-based gaming technology – has several key personnel sharing Avalanche Studios’ office space. Jacob Navok, senior vice president of business for Shinra, told Game Informer he and his staff were working on a “possible future collaboration” with Avalanche.
“What we see in the near future are cloud games that are developed from the ground up as well as games that are in an existing pipeline that we will enhance,” Navok said before presenting an oddly-specific hypothetical situation. “For example, taking a game that doesn’t have multiplayer right now and easily giving it multiplayer is what we imagine for enhancements.”
When Game Informer asked Navok if Just Cause 3 could or would be that game, Navok responded, “I think it does make a lot of sense.”
Avalanche Studios also announced, through a cover reveal, that Just Cause 3 is indeed in development. It’s coming to Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PC in 2015.
