No cross-platform UT3 at launch News

Oh my god. A developer putting PC gamers first in a multiplatform release.

I am truly gobsmacked.

Long live the PC!

Pics of the can of soda please...

I'd be interested to hear more of what that soda had to say.

The can had a point!

I can't wait for this but it's called Unreal 3 because only 3 people on earth have a pc massive enough to run it at full speed!

i was expecting this tbh. no news.

I still play Tournament because it will run on anything around these parts.

Aww... I was really looking forward to dominating PS3 players...
Imaging how badly they'd do in an instagib match against someone using mouse & keyboard

Sounds like it might never happen. If they are regularly updating the PC version once it's out, the PS3 could end up always being a step behind.

Ahhh!

A day without bad news for Playstation 3 is like a day without sunshine.

@dfunked: The PS3 version will support mouse and keyboard, so that particular dream of domination may never come to fruition!

@Garulon: ...and a day without an XBox gloater, is like a day without cancer.

WANT.

Yeah right. Their "Bread and butter" is consoles. Much lower piracy. Higher prices. Dedicated platform partners and brand owners. And as console engine Dev environments evolve, easier development towards a homogeneous environment.

The last 5 years of game revenue statistics shows a clear trend. Consoles revenues are going up. PC revenues are going down - with the occasional trend-defying sales spike due to warcraft or some similar online (non-pirateable) game.

PC games as we know it is doomed. Do0omed I say :) Regardless that every 20 year old male geek ( with the newest graphic card ), insist that this is not so :o)

'styrvolt' said
"Yeah right. Their "Bread and butter" is consoles. Much lower piracy. Higher prices. Dedicated platform partners and brand owners. And as console engine Dev environments evolve, easier development towards a homogeneous environment."


I call BULLSHIT. I believe the developer more then a forum geek.


PC's are only getting more and more popular.

"Their "Bread and butter" is consoles.

It's really not.

Apart from the fact the company founder is quoted above you as saying exactly the opposite, a single console game (plus a couple of ports) in their entire history doesn't constitute bread and butter.

Nonsense, the PC market is growing as well, just not as fast. And that with all statistics not even taking digital distribution into account.

Wasn't true in the early 90ies when I first heard it, isn't true now. Puberescent console nerds with inferiority complexes think the PC is dead everytime they buy a shiny new console. :p Wishful thinking.

The can of soda went: 'pssssst....[inaudible]'

I reckon it was quietly prompting Rein.


/doesn't quit day job

Don't know why there is such a facination with cross-platform. To me it really isn't a huge deal - at least until the console version plays and has access to the exact same mods and such as the PC version.

P.S. To the "PC is doomed" comment... Go tell that to the just-under 10 million people playing WoW.

No MMO has succeeded on console yet... and WoW has more subscribers by far than xbox live (xbox live is like, what, 7m or so? Less?) And thats just one.

WoW + GW + EQ + Lineage2 + LoTRO = So many more PC gamers than people with a 360, its just crazy - and thats just MMOs.

It's amusing how hyped people are about the possibility about playing an FPS between PS3 and PC given how much ridicule MS got for pushing this for the 360

Um, who exactly is hyped? Ah, two people said they're interested. Man, what hype. :p

>'styrvolt said: "Their "Bread and butter" is consoles. "
>Skillian said: "It's really not." [..]

It really is. And they know it.

On

http://www.theinquirer.net/en/inquirer/n...

Mark Rein is quoted to say: "Consoles will pretty much define what the next five years of games look like on the PC... We're just now at the point where it's viable to ship games on these next-gen consoles and it's GOING TO BE A GOLD MINE FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS..."

On

http://forum.pcvsconsole.com/viewthread....

you get:

US Console & Handheld Game Software Sales
1998 - $3.7 billion
1999 - $4.2 billion
2000 - $4.1 billion (130.6 million units)
2001 - $4.6 billion (141.5 million units)
2002 - $5.5 billion (162.8 million units)
2003 - $5.8 billion (186.4 million units)
2004 - $6.2 billion (203 million units)
2005 - $6.1 billion (190.5 million units)
2006 - $6.5 billion

US PC Game Software Sales
1998 - $1.8 billion
1999 - $1.9 billion
2000 - $1.78 billion (84.9 million units)
2001 - $1.75 billion (83.6 million units)
2002 - $1.4 billion (61.5 million units)
2003 - $1.2 billion (52.8 million units)
2004 - $1.1 billion (47 million units)
2005 - $953 million (38 million units)
2006 - $970 million

On

http://www.jupiterresearch.com/bin/item....

you get

"The PC has long been an important game platform, and the primary locus of innovation and testing for new product strategies. The PC has, however, become the platform of last resort as dedicated system suppliers have successfully attracted customers with a high willingness to pay for games. "

and so the story goes.

Live with it :o)

Vandrius said:
"P.S. To the "PC is doomed" comment... Go tell that to the just-under 10 million people playing WoW. "

As I said : "with the occasional trend-defying sales spike due to warcraft or some similar online (non-pirateable) game. ".

Oh, and Sims2 also attract PC gamers. Especially female gamers. For some reason you cannot get the ordinary Sims2 game on a non-pc platform. Yet.

Vandrius said:" No MMO has succeeded on console yet... and WoW has more subscribers by far than xbox live (xbox live is like, what, 7m or so? Less?) And thats just one. "

:) It's really just another bastion waiting to be conquered by consoles. Just like FPS and RPG's used to be PC domain. Since there are no technical problems in doing MMO on consoles this is another success story waiting to happen. It only represents an opportunity for consoles to bolster their success.

In your very, very humble opinion, of course, backed by selective quoting and useless statistics. nyway, believe what you want, and be happy with second best. :)

UncleLou:" In your very, very humble opinion, of course, backed by selective quoting and useless statistics. nyway, believe what you want, and be happy with second best. :) "

I think that if you mine the data, check the references of those dabbling in this segment, look at what publishers predict, notice towards what future segment most developers are focused on and optimizing their engines for, pay attention to what segment has the biggets marketing budget, observe who get's the largest sales revenues where, etc. - and you still choose to make this a simple matter of my subjective oppinion, then perhaps you should be happy with being second best :o)

You're confusing two things. I'll let you work it out yourself . :)

UncleLou: "I'll let you work it out yourself . :) "

Ditto!

Thanks for the "mini-debate" ;-)