Gothic 4 Negotiations Underway

In light of Piranha Bytes’ announcement, JoWooD has issued their own statement announcing that they are currently in “positive discussions” with various studios to develop a Gothic 4. Here’s a rough translation:

JoWooD Productions works on Gothic 4

Austria, 22 May 2007; JoWooD Productions is already for several weeks in positive discussions with potential video game studios for Gothic 4 on PC and console. With the selection of the developer on very high quality standard as well as a finally error free programming of the play one focuses in particular. With the publication of the fourth part of the successful game of roles on current generation consoles JoWooD pursues the new enterprise strategy purposefully toward console market. The discussions with the past developer Pluto 13 led to no acceptable result, which is why cooperation with them was terminated.

So… will you buy Gothic 4 if Piranha Bytes has no involvement?