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E3 07: Unreal Tournament 3 and Haze Exclusively on PS3 Console for 2007
by Nick Breckon, Jul 11, 2007 12:37pm PDTConsole fans looking to play the next entry in Epic Games' multiplayer shooter series will need to wait until 2008, unless they own a PlayStation 3. During Sony's E3 press event this morning, the company announced that both Epic's Unreal Tournament 3 (PC, PS3, X360) and Free Radical Design's shooter Haze will be console exclusives on the PlayStation 3 this year. The two titles will be debuting on the system this November. The exclusivity does not apply to the PC, as Unreal Tournament 3 will be released concurrently on the PS3 and PC. In regards to the deal, Epic's Mark Rein was adamant that no back-alley deals were stuck with Sony to secure the release of Unreal Tournament 3 the PS3 ahead of the Xbox 360 version. "There's nothing sinister about it. It's just the PS3 and PC version of the games are compatible, because Sony has an open-source platform," Rein said, according to Gamespot. SCEA also announced a deal with both Midway and Epic to optimize the Unreal Engine 3 for use on the PlayStation 3. The agreement will affect all games in development that use the engine.
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lol at mark rein's "reasoning". that guy has spouted so much bullshit over the years that no one should take him seriously anymore.
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That sounds like a crappy, made-up 'developer marketing' excuse to me. I though the Unreal tech was one of the best for PS3/360/PC cross-compatibility and maturity. If anything, doing PC/360 ports is really easy because they both use D3D.... they have much more in common with each other than either of them does with the PS3.
I don't see what open-source has to do with it in this case.
Blah.
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I've got an Xbox 360, but playing a UT game on it would be very frustrating with the Xbox controller. Maybe this will push Microsoft into making some official keyboard/mouse support in the mean time.
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"Unreal Tournament III will be exclusive to the PS3 AND PC when it is released later this year", so it's not only PS3-exclusive.
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