Thief 4 Targeting Next Gen? News

Following on from the Thief 4 announcement we knew it would be a considerable time before we saw anything, but we didn't expect it to be the "next" generation

In additional details given to IGN, Eidos Montreal's General Manager Stephane D'Astous appears to conjure the fact that Thief 4 is little more than an idea currently swimming around somebody's head.

"As for platforms and consoles, things are moving so fast. There's some contradictory noise on when there's going to be the next generation, so we're going to be prudent on that one," said D'Astous.

"So we're going to wait a couple of months to announce more about that. It's going to be cutting edge technology, that's for sure. It would be imprudent for us to say which console because, first of all, we don't know exactly the window of release and we don't know the first-party strategy.

There's plenty of ways this statement can be interpreted.  It's widely believed that the hardware manufacturers all want this generation to last longer than any other, but could one of them be looking to cause a surprise and gain an early start on the next generation? 

Whatever happens we wouldn't expect to see Garret anytime soon, and given D'Astous other comments we won't even be seeing Deus Ex 3 at E3.