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Unreal Engine 4.0 coming to Xbox 360 and PS3 before PC

by Steven Williamson on 13 March 2008, 12:59

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Two-fingered salute to PC gamers

The next version of Epic Game’s widely used game engine, the Unreal Engine will “exclusively target the next console generation," says the technical director and founder of Epic games, Tim Sweeney.

The development of the PC version will be carried out after it has been launched on Xbox 360 and PS3. This is a big blow for PC gamers who’ve seen the likes of Unreal Tournament, Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield, Tactical Ops and many others utilise the engine.

Remember the PC gaming alliance, the group of influential companies that are looking to make the PC a more desirable platform for developers? Well, Epic signed up for that, but it looks as though they’ve just stuck two fingers up to the PC gaming community.

Source :: Next-gen biz


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Posted by kopite - Thu 13 Mar 2008 13:01
It was inevetible I suppose.

As Mark Rein said ya make a console game like gears of war and sell millions of copies or make a pc game and sell a million if ur lucky.

The PC market sucks a bit atm we are getting some brilliant games but a lot are going over to the console market.
Posted by Gr44 - Fri 14 Mar 2008 19:16
Ouch…. What a blow to the PC gamer!

Since Epic messed up UT3 so badly and now they're saying this… I don't think highly of them any more :(

Maybe if companys made PC games, for PC's - they'd sell more. They make games that were clearly designed for consoles and then wonder why they don't sell so many. The menu system in UT3 is a prime example, the menu in UT99 was 1000x better, loads more options, loads more features. It was made for a pc user, not a console user.

Crytek seem to be doing a nice job of supporting the PC as a gaming platform at the moment. Shame Epic have jumped ship though. :(
Posted by Hicks12 - Sat 15 Mar 2008 16:27
happens when i built my pc xD. Well its annoying how many ports go to consoles now….. vice versa too. I will hope that some other games are released and are decent, something like crysis but with decent textures and less demanding( bf2142 is similar to crysis gfx imo).