Champions Online "coming out first on PC"

By Oli Welsh Published 11 March, 2009

Console version(s) later - Roper.

Speaking to Eurogamer, Cryptic's Bill Roper has confirmed that Champions Online will only be available for the PC when it launches this spring.

Cryptic has always said that its superhero MMO was intended for consoles too - an Xbox 360 version is known to be in development, and PS3 is strongly rumoured. But new owners Atari did not specify whether the spring release would be across multiple formats.

"All I know is it's coming out first on the PC," Roper said when asked in today's interview, but he couldn't be specific about console release plans.

"We really, really want to bring it out on console, the consoles are just hungry and perfect for an MMO, and we've done a lot of work to ensure that there's nothing to prevent us from doing that. It's an area beyond my control at this point, I just work on the game."

The superhero MMO is in the early stages of beta testing. For more, check out the interview, and our Champions Online gamepage.

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Comments (5) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • mcmonkeyplc #1 3 years ago

    Consoles 2046

  • DFawkes #2 3 years ago

    I'm hoping it'll be like FFXI, in that it'll be the same server so I can sub, and play on whichever I choose. My PC is fine, but my 360 is clearly more powerful.

  • ZuluHero #3 3 years ago

    well they are striving to get everyone on the same servers, and with FFXI out there we know its possible. This news, however, has decided the version for me...

  • Kujata #4 3 years ago

    FFS i want to play this on 360... but i don't want to wait a completely unspecified amount of time after the PC release to do so.

  • Silvervein #5 3 years ago

    Since I'm weary of mmos meant for console and pc at once, I'll wait and see how this one fares. Besides, I enjoy cryptics previous game, city of heroes, too much to switch to something that's not a guaranteed hit. Or at least, a lot of fun.