It's not an official confirmation of Mercenaries 3, although it shouldn't be of any surprise if Pandemic's new owner, Electronic Arts, would be pleased to see a third installment of a franchise whose entry title proved to be the best-selling original property of 2005.
Pandemic and EA are making a big media push as the development of Mercenaries 2 heads towards the home stretch. The game is garnering heavy interest from gamers on the Internet with its promise of drop-in/drop-out co-op, fully destructible environments and go-anywhere Grand Theft Auto-inspired gameplay.
The title is slated for an August release on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PC and PS2.
A separate team is working on the PS2 version--a version that would seem like a likely candidate for a port to the Nintendo Wii.
Brown was standoffish about talking about any potential Wii version of Mercenaries 2. "I’m going to refer you to [EA's public relations] on that one," he said. "I honestly don’t know what I can talk about and what I can’t."
Nevertheless, speaking theoretically, Brown said he'd be happy to bring the franchise to the Wii in some shape or form.
"I personally would love to make a Wii version of Mercs," he said. "I think we’ve had a lot of discussions internally about how we would do that and how we would use the controls. I would love to make something that was really unique to the platform that uses the universe of Mercs in a way that was unique to the Wii.
"I think you could take that kind of really over-the-top explosive attitude and do some pretty interesting things with the controls. Yeah, I will neither confirm nor deny anything about developing Mercs for the Wii but I think it would be cool."
You can read more from Brown on Mercs 2's design in Next-Gen's interview.