Epic VP slams Rev and others

[Professor S]

Well I think we know who Epic is going to develop for...

[DeathsHand]

Hey that's the guy PSM interviewed awhile back (though the say his name is Mark Reign)...

And I found this little interesting quote which I had always wanted to point out everytime someone talks about how PS3 is crazy expensive to develop for, and how smaller developers would probably opt for 360 or Revolution:

"We recently announced a deal with Sony that will soon make it free for PS3 developers to try out Unreal Engine 3 toolset for PS3. It is my hope that putting these tools in developers' hands will prompt enterprising developers to explore some cool and original ideas. A game like Katamari Damacy, for example, could easily be created in Unreal Engine 3 for PS3, and I'm willing to guess it could be made for less than what it cost them to make it for PS2"

Hmmm *ponders*

But yeah he seems like kind of an ass... Though I guess most people who aren't "Afraid to speak their opinions" come off as such...

Though I kinda half-agree with his views on the Revolution... I can't wait until the upcoming CONSOLE WARZ start to heat up... I ponder how the Revolution will sell, and if it will end up pleasing all those people who seem to think it'll be the best thing since sliced bread...

[Crash]

talk about a scientific survey

how many people own JUST a psp or JUST an xbox... no one owns JUST one games system.

*shrugs*

plus:

Gears of War is due out on Xbox 360 some time in 2007

yeah, I'm sure that'll do so much better against the PS3, AHEM... sega saturn to THE MAX!!!!!!

[GameMaster]

I typically don't applaud such strong opinions and such is this case for this guy's. If he can tone it down a little and make it more general, then maybe I'd agree with it.

I would be upset if all of the Project Revolution's games were based around the new controller scheme. I don't want to move my hands much more than I do now.

[MuGen]

Simmer...simmer...... ok... now that we're simmered...

At times in that statement it seemed like he was kissing Iwata's ass...

"Nintendo, you know, is going to make amazing games. I mean that's a given."

Then he continues to bash Nintendo's market strategy w/ All about the controller. I think he has a general point though...

Although developers could spend their precious time making great games... they will be spending their time on figuring out how to play around this new controller... which works against Nintendo...And the games will more or less play around the controller rather then the game itself.... I'm not bashing the Rev's controller, rather I'm simmering down his arguments and making them rational.

He's basically saying that theres nothing wrong with sticking with the basic Xbox 360 layout, PS2 controller layout (Hence the "ps3's controller is ugly'' statement).

My Opinion The Rev controller can prove to be a really cool controller to play with. But as seasoned a gamer as I am... I really have no time to be fooling around with button layouts and getting used to another layout. I'd rather plug in my traditional X, O, [], ^ layout and playing the game. Same goes with the 360 controller...

With the new revolution controller... the console no longer becomes ''plug-n-play'' in a retrospect... you now need to get used to the layout and then get good at it. I will be giving it a shot next-generation however.... I will be purchasing a PS3 and a Revolution.... since I trust Sony and Nintendo more than Microsoft whose only been in this console war for 1 generation.

[Perfect Stu]

the guy doesnt like the Revolution interface because he wont be able to sell the Unreal engine to as many REV developers...think about it, which systems' software are going to use the Unreal 3 Engine the most?

PS3 and XBox360 by far

Nintendo designed the Revolution for 1st party games FIRST. They always do, but in this case it's most obvious. They shouldnt really care about a guy who's trying to whore out his middleware software...

[Jonbo298]

That doesnt mean NIntendo wont release an accessory thats the 'cube controller but used over REv for the new games

[Teuthida]

I enjoy consuming my bread in chunks rather than slices.

[DeathsHand]

Originally Posted by Sony

But as seasoned a gamer as I am... I really have no time to be fooling around with button layouts and getting used to another layout.

...?

So you'd rather things stay the same forever because you don't want to have to take oh, the... 10 minutes it'd probably take to get used to using the controller?

I don't see how getting used to a new controller is much more difficult than getting used to a new control scheme (and the general feel of the game) on an existing controller... And I'm sure you'll run into a few of those on 360/PS3...