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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Re:The PS3 version is second grade anyway...

[SpeedyRich]

Can't dodge your faultless logic there. Unreal Engine, designed to work fluidly on single-core, OpenGL architectures, doesn't work so hot on multi-core proprietary architectures. Wow. Who'd've thought.