Will the NEW consoles support WoW?

[Karat-anubarak (Karat)]

@Baridorielor-malfurion

Controller support is nice and all, but I still don’t understand what disabilities has to do with the reason why they are putting it in.

They explicitly said that the reason they’re adding in the APIs for controllers in Shadowlands is to make things easier on the communities that develop tools so people with disabilities can play. I’ll see if I can find the exact quote.

Edit: Found it.

@Kaivax

That’s not exactly the intention here.

For a long time, we’ve seen a small number of players turn to 3rd party addons, such as Console Port , in order to work through certain accessibility issues.

We always want to make WoW more widely accessible, if possible, so in Shadowlands, we’re attempting to add some support for keybinds, camera, and turning a character on controllers such as the Xbox Adaptive Controller.

We’re glad that the community has felt empowered to make addons tailored to specific needs like this, and we’re going to continue to encourage that as best we can.

@Fluffybuns-zangarmarsh

im sure they’d just create setting that make it run smooth, and besides, next gen consoles seem to be pretty powerful, it could definitely run wow with little to no issue

As far as hardware goes, sure, but don’t forget that consoles run different OSes than PCs. It’d still take some work to make WoW function well.