It's never been a query of the way you would control a Total War game on console that is held the core series back - the stumbling block has always been power.
"Total War on console, the reason it is not there has never been about control. There has never been a control reason not to have the game on console - that is not the issue. It is a difficult design issue, trying to figure out how to control a game like that with a pad, but even that is a solvable issue - it requires some smart design," Simpson told Eurogamer (later acknowledging that SmartGlass and touch-screen controls would "make it much easier").