It seems like every major release this fall has some sort of mobile version or application to support it. They’re often very different from the full console or PC experiences, but hey, it doesn’t hurt the publisher to cash in on a brand with a much smaller, simplified experience.
From Software, on the other hand, wants to keep its flagship Dark Souls franchise on consoles. Namco Bandai director of global strategy for mobile, Alex Adjaj, told Digital Spy that even if the publisher has some desire to spread the Souls love, the development team is reluctant.
"We'd like to bring Dark Souls to mobile, but it's very difficult because the guys at From Software are very much console-oriented," Adjaj said. "To change their mind about it, it takes quite a while."
"The leads on Dark Souls are saying we don't want to do mobile because the controls would have to be changed, and therefore it won't be Dark Souls anymore," he added.
That doesn’t mean it’ll never happen, though. Mobile devices continue to advance, and that should give developers greater options when porting games to phones.
“At the same time, you have a growth in controllers for mobile,” he continued. “I think it's not an impossible case scenario to see a Dark Souls game coming to mobile at some point.”
Dark Souls 2 will arrive March 2014.
