The team at Smite developer Hi-Rez Studios is hard at work getting its MOBA ready for the Xbox One. A closed beta is planned for early next year, and it should be released in the first half of 2015.
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Hi-Rez COO Todd Harris laid out this timeline this weekend at PAX Austrailia (thanks, Game Informer), where Smite opened up its new Australian servers. The developers first announced the planned Xbox One port of the PC game back at Gamescom.
In Smite, players work together in teams of five for some traditional MOBA gameplay. At the start of every game, each player picks a character from Smite's lineup of playable gods from pantheons all over the world. The game includes gods, demons and heroes from Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Chinese, Norse, Mayan and Hindu mythologies. Almost 60 playable gods are in the game, and more are constantly being added.
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We'll have to see how well a more traditional MOBA like Smite does on a console. Thanks to the growing infrastructure of eSports, the genre is quickly expanding, and opening it up to the home console audience might introduce even more gamers to MOBAs in general. With the success of various free-to-play games on the Xbox 360, Microsoft has expressed its intent to keep the Xbox One open to free-to-play business models, so Smite will be able to keep its current setup on consoles if it chooses to do so.
Smite is currently free to play for PC.
