[/SIZE][/FONT]Mark Rein said:[FONT=Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica][SIZE=-1]We have not finalized a SKU plan, or a release plan, for Unreal Tournament 3. The release date speculation in their story is pure nonsense of course as are all 'published' release dates for UT3 at this point. The statement that "their past comments regarding Sony's next-gen system haven't been exactly glowing" is complete rubbish. We were on stage showing UT3 at the original launch of the PS3 - in fact it was the first EVER public demo of anything running live on PS3. We've supported the platform from day one the same way we've supported Xbox 360 from day one. People were impressed by what we have done so far on Xbox 360 and I think they'll be equally impressed with what we will do on PS3 and PC. We're the cross-platform-happy company and it's all going to rock
The reason I choose Live at the moment is simply because there are so many people playing a crap load of games. It hasn't really kicked in yet for the PS3 online.
I know, but in the thread about 360 exclusive content for GTA IV, he said that MS were Bribing Rockstar and blabla, and I replied stating the fact that Sony paid Rockstars a great deal of money to keep the previous GTAs as timed exclusives for the PS2, and asked how that was any different, apparently he decided to ignore my reply because he couldnt come up with a good response to save himself some face.Oh, and its not bribery, its business.
Hahaha! Yeah, that was what I was going for with my comment--just a general observation about business practices among the rich and powerful. Sony, MS, Nintendo--they all use strongarm tactics to impose their will on the videogame scene. No biggie. Some people turn a blind eye to it when it comes to their console maker of choice is all.I know, but in the thread about 360 exclusive content for GTA IV, he said that MS were Bribing Rockstar and blabla, and I replied stating the fact that Sony paid Rockstars a great deal of money to keep the previous GTAs as timed exclusives for the PS2, and asked how that was any different, apparently he decided to ignore my reply because he couldnt come up with a good response to save himself some face.
Midway [publisher of all 3 UT3 games] just invested three hundred million dollars in 'next-gen' games. They need to re-coup as much money as possible; selling games will do that. They don't want to be doing anything exclusive. This isn't Mario brothers, this isn't a house-hold word known game, so they need as much exposure as possible.
Source? And there's no guarantee they will have a bigger community, you have to keep in mind UT has been out for PCs for many generations and already has a huge community, you cant honestly expect just one console release of UT3 on the PS3 to surpass that community in size..
