Duke Nukem Forever 'Confirmed' For Late 2008

An anonymous reader writes "A Dallas newspaper is claiming that the long-in-development title Duke Nukem Forever is headed for retail release in late 2008. Unfortunately, game creator 3D Realms says that's not exactly what they meant. 'What the modest Texas newspaper actually seems to suggest is that 3D Realms is "on target" to release the mythical sequel sometime this year, though company president Scott Miller adds, "we may miss the mark by a month or two" (wink, wink). Miller also hinted that "hitting the big three" (in this case, PC, Xbox 360 and PS3) is the obvious development strategy, but he continued to stress that 3D Realms has not "formally announced any platforms for DNF."'"

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Re:12 Years

[Anonymous Coward]

Good question. I doubt it, other than the misanthropes on Slashdot who will certainly reply that they still play video games and leave out minor facts like the reason they still play video games is that they've never been laid in the past twelve years.

Assuming that the original players were all about 18 for the original, that'd make them 30 now. Most 30 year olds have moved on and are starting families. (Or at least should have.) If they do still play video games, it certainly isn't violent "rated M" video games - it's with the kids.

Even going with 24 as the high range of the current video game generation, they'd have been twelve when Duke Nukem 3D was out.

Somehow I doubt any of the original Duke Nukem fans are still playing video games.

Re:Worlds longest running practical joke

[Altus]

My assumption was that they were targeting all three platforms but that, if they weren't going to get one of them done "in time" they might drop it and release for that platform later.

How is it that the "big three" platforms doesn't include the biggest selling console?

Re:scott miller and the wii

[Anonymous Coward]

god damn get a fucking life

the wii is for hookers and fat people, and the big three are the mature consoles with working controllers that can put out modern graphics, sales have nothing to do with it

I hope you realize you've made a mistake in your fanboyism the day you've bought "mario party wario rayman ware at the olympics" 8893 and realized its the same as every other game on the console

Re:Worlds longest running practical joke

[Altus]

Ive got no problem with them not releasing on the Wii. I'm not claiming that they should support it (especially given that they will likely never support any hardware ever).

But calling the X-box, the PC and the PS3 "the big three" is completely inaccurate and shows a real disconnect with the realities of the console market.

But hey, they have a total disconnect with the calendar and apparently with reasonable software development techniques that I shouldn't really be surprised.