Rainbow Six Siege should continue in the next generation

By John Wilds

In a recent interview, Ubisoft Montreal hinted that it was considering bringing Rainbow Six Siege to the next generation, and how it would do without asking fans to separate or spend a lot of money.

Rainbow Six Siege could be the biggest long-term success of all games as a kind of service. Although not the biggest or the most profitable, Siege boasts a huge fan base, thanks to an almost constant stream of updates and the public wish of Ubisoft Montreal to add content up to the game has 100 playable characters. It has been around for so long and has improved so much that we have even seen it again.

So with this long-term success in mind, what to do with the next generation of consoles becomes a very interesting challenge for Ubisoft Montreal. And thanks to a Daily Star interview, we now know a little more about their projects.

"We absolutely do not want to go on," said Alexandre Remy, director of the Rainbow Six brand, at a recent professional tournament. Adding: "… we do not want to separate our community between the different platforms, I would love to have players from all platforms playing together, we are approaching Next-Gen with the same spirit."

With this desire to keep Siege as a base for only one player, he then added that the team asked, "How can we make sure the Siege player base is able to migrate today?" players ready to improve, we already talked about it.

"The strength of any multiplayer game lies in the size of its community," he continued, "… so I believe that we must do everything in our power to ensure that, upon the arrival of the next generation, they are treated like high-end computers, PCs. "

Considering that everything suggests that the new generation is dominated by AMD hardware, just like this one, the analogy "high-end PC or other PC" could be very relevant. It seems that players of the next generation will play a lot on similar but better versions of their previous consoles. This leads the interviewer to wonder how to ensure real equity between players playing different versions of the same game. Remy did not have the answer yet, he replied, "I do not know exactly how you could deploy that and we just have a conversation with the first parties. "

Of course, with the arrival of E3, there is no doubt that a ton of other Ubisoft ads that we will have for you here, as they occur. But if you can not wait, check out the latest announcement about the Rainbow Six Siege DLC featuring two new operators or the trailer of the new Lesion Elite set.

John is a freelance writer for IGN UK and likes everything that is stealthy, ginny and noisy. To set up a Spies vs. Mercs game or hear its less consistent ramblings, Get it on Twitter.