UT3 Won't Feature Cross Play Capability

Next Generation is reporting on comments from Epic's Mark Rein, who participated in an IRC chat with some members of the Unreal community recently. In the chat, Rein revealed that Unreal Tournament 3 will not feature the ability for PS3 and PC players to compete on the same servers. Said Rein, "We looked at how this would impact our ability to respond quickly to things happening at internet speed on the PC side of the equation and realized that this would not be in the best interests of our very loyal PC userbase because we would constantly be holding on to updates to wait until they passed cert on the console platform. Our PC fanbase is of ultimate importance to us. They are our bread and butter. We can't let them down or compromise their experience in any way to accommodate cross platform play."

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The PS3 version is second grade anyway...

[rbarreira]

The PS3 version will be worse than the PC version anyway, and won't include all the maps:

http://www.jolt.co.uk/index.php?articleid=9625

Epic's Mark Rein has now said maps have had to be cut from the PlayStation 3 version because the next-gen system can't handle them.

Speaking to IGN, Rein commented that the maps not in the PS3 release didn't sit well on the console "because the system didn't have the resources to produce a smooth gameplay experience."

The PS3 omgpowerhouse looks less and less powerful...

Thank god!

[phorge]

At first I read this as 'UT3 Won't Feature Cosplay'.

If only we could have been so lucky.