Dark Souls Mobile Unlikely but Publisher Interested

Digital Spy recently chatted with Namco Bandai’s director of global strategy for mobile Alex Adjadj about the chances of seeing a Dark Souls installment on mobile. Despite the publisher’s interest, it looks like From Software isn’t exactly too keen on the idea:

“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,” he told Digital Spy. “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.

“At the same time, you have a growth in controllers for mobile. I think it’s not an impossible case scenario to see a Dark Souls game coming to mobile at some point.

“But the truth is that the conversations we have with device manufacturers are saying the first control they want is glass, obviously, it’s not controller or joystick. They want people to use glass to control the game, so it’s a bit difficult, but we’re getting there.”

Considering Adjadj’s ideas for the gameplay transition, I’m not exactly too bothered by the fact that a mobile Dark Souls title seems unlikely so far:

“I think there is a need to redesign the way you reroll in the game to make it a bit more casual, so with shorter sessions,” he explained.

“But definitely it’s something we could bring to mobile in a very successful way.