On April 27, 2012, a spokesperson from Crytek confirmed that "TimeSplitters 4" was "not in development," and in June 2012, Yerli stated that:"Look, I wish we were working on it. The thing with "TimeSplitters" is, if we made a sequel to "TimeSplitters", nobody would accept this apart from some fans, and we don't know how big the fan community is unfortunately."In July 2013, TechRadar spoke to Ellis who, when asked if "TimeSplitters" "4" would ever be released on 8th generation consoles (such as PlayStation 4 and Xbox One), replied with a statement suggesting it was highly unlikely:"I don't think there's any chance that's going to happen, you always got to the point where the marketing person in the room would say 'I don't know how to sell this' because they want a character that they can put on the front of the box. Every marketing person and every publisher we spoke to 'You can't have that as your selling point' and maybe the sales figures of previous games backed that up."This prediction was made more concrete by the shutdown of Crytek in 2014, with the majority of the company's staff moving to Deep Silver's Dambuster Studios.