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Just how are they going to port this without removing half of it? The game was complex already and now they want to get it onto a Console? I think porting Excel or Access would be simpler.

Sorry, I don't see how you came to this conclusion. Surely you don't mean content, as the PC version requires 8.5 GB of HD space, which is exactly the capacity of a Dual Layer DVD. Content isn't the problem, anyway, it's getting the engine to work. They used BioWare's Aurora Engine for the PC version, which ran on Linux and has previously been modified to work on the Xbox. So it's reasonable to assume their code must be relatively platform-independent already. They're developing a new engine for use with the consoles, yes, but I fail to see how complexity has anything to do with "getting it onto a console."

In fact, if you check out this interview, it sounds like they are (or were, anyway) actually making it more complex.

I wonder if there's any relation between this and the rumor about the PlayStation 4, which says it's coming out in 2011, and it'll be only twice as powerful as the PS3.