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UT3 Won't Feature Cross Play Capability

Posted by Zonk on from the stick-to-your-roots dept.

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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  1. Re:What?!? by Necreia · · Score: 5, Informative

    PC patches don't require Sony's blessing-- that's the deal with it.

  2. Console vs PC = bad idea for developers by Delusion_ · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The first time a group of fairly talented console players meet up with a group of fairly talented PC players in a first-person shooter, the limitations of a console controller versus the flexibility of a mouse are going to become painfully obvious.

    When I played Halo on an Xbox (not a lengthy play session, admittedly), it felt like I was playing wearing mittens.

    There's something to be said about having your mouse set almost fast enough for the cursor to register your pulse - because in an FPS, being able to do a quick 360 in midair in a fraction of a second is the difference between getting a kill and being a kill.

    This could lead players to assume that the PC is the platform to be on, much to the detriment of console game sales and rentals.

    I don't have a use for consoles - I dislike the limitations and the controllers have been horrendous since the days of the Atari 2600 and don't care much for the kind of games that consoles do better than PCs, so while I admit I might be short-changing the console side a little, that's my take.

  3. Thank god! by phorge · · Score: 5, Funny

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

    If only we could have been so lucky.