The Twisted Metal franchise is being revived later this year with the first original title in the series since Twisted Metal: Head-On in 2005. Despite being a PlayStation 3 exclusive, it hasn’t been pushed on the same level as a game like Uncharted 3, and director David Jaffe isn’t certain the game will sell as well as franchise fans’ enthusiasm would indicate. He also says the reason a Vita version isn’t in the works is because Sony simply hasn’t asked for it.
“They haven’t asked us,” he said last week when asked about the prospect of Twisted Metal on Vita by 1UP. “I think right now, people have been asking that all week and I think it would be a fun fit but to be honest with you… every game we’ve worked on we’ve been able to read the tea leaves better on ‘Do we have a hit or not?’ And with Twisted Metal it’s been really, really hard because we know we have a huge fanbase that loved the earlier Twisted Metals, they seem to be loving what they’re playing on this one. It’s a game that we’re super-proud of and it’s the best Twisted Metal we’ve ever made. But what we don’t know is, when we go out, does it have a home like it used to have a home?
“And so I don’t think any of us are being presumptuous and saying, ‘Oh yeah, this is the starter. We’re gonna make one and two and a Vita version and a Facebook version.’ We have no clue. This could go out and be the last Twisted Metal we ever make or it could go out and be the start of a franchise. But unlike a lot of other games we make in this industry where you kind of know by now, we really don’t know. We don’t have any clue yet.”
