In speaking with AusGamers, Creative Director at Gearbox Paul Hellquist said that they would rather keep a possible next-gen version of the game to four-players because of the already fast-paced nature of the game and not for other, technical reasons.
Well, he makes a great point. More does not always equal better.
"There's obviously more power, so some of those performance things will diminish, but... (laughs) we are always filling up all of the performance we are given by the hardware manufacturers, so I'm sure we'll have different challenges. But there is also a thing we've talked a lot about internally with going more than four, where we think that if we go too much more than four, the experience will actually start to break down; that four is kind of a nice sweet spot, in terms of enough craziness, and of all of these different personalities and character classes and everything, but you can still kind of keep track of what's happening.
"We do have a little bit of a worry that if we go to eight or sixteen or something crazy, that everyone will spread out, and you'll kind of actually lose that more intimate 'We’re working together' kind of experience. So there's an interesting balance there that we'll need to investigate."
"We do have a little bit of a worry that if we go to eight or sixteen or something crazy, that everyone will spread out, and you'll kind of actually lose that more intimate 'We’re working together' kind of experience. So there's an interesting balance there that we'll need to investigate."
Well, he makes a great point. More does not always equal better.