It sounds like there’s a very good chance that Codemasters’ new PC-only Dirt Rally late last month , may be headed to console once the PC version is eventually complete.

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Speaking with Red Bull Games lead designer Paul Coleman explained that he definitely wants console players to be able to experience Dirt Rally.“I want really to be in the hands of as many players as possible and I’m well aware that the PC market is only a section of the wider gaming market, so ultimately I want players who invested in consoles rather than PCs to be able to experience this game first hand,” said Coleman. “Early access is the pathway or road that we’re using but I think that once we get to the end of that road we can confidently be packaging and curating a console experience from the content and also from the learnings that we had on PC for our console audience… I think it’s something that we should be actively looking to do.”Coleman also elaborated on the philosophy behind Dirt Rally which, unlike the previous Dirt games, is a very serious off road simulator.“I think a lot of people wanted a more authentic and in-depth, professional approach to the sport that they loved,” he explained. “There was a feeling that we were almost devaluing rally sport through the way that we represented it in the previous games of the franchise.”“Don’t get me wrong, those games were absolutely the right games to make at the time and I think that the sales and the Metacritic results they received absolutely reflect that, but over the last four years we’ve seen the market shifting towards these more in-depth and detailed experiences.”“People want to buy into an experience and grow with it. They don’t want these throwaway experiences quite as much as they did in the past, so this is kind of our reaction to that.”Dirt Rally is available on Steam Early Access now and features three countries with 36 unique and lengthy stages between them, full time-of-day and weather effects, and 17 iconic rally vehicles from past and present. It's also very, very good.Some of the content Codemasters will be adding over the year as development continues will include the famous Pikes Peak hill climb, rallycross events, more rally stages from Germany, Finland, and Sweden, plus additional cars.

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