look guys, its like this. Epic has nothing to do with the way PC gaming is heading, and if anything you should be getting down on your knee's and thanking them for doing everything they can to save it. How many times have you heard them lobbying hardware manufacturers about dropping thos lame intel inegrated graphics processors that cant handle crap.
The single biggest difference between this generations failed PC releases and previous generations success is software rendering.
Now I know us hardcore gamers like to believe we've all lived in a world where everyone whos been playing unreal since 99 has had state of the art (for the time) graphics cards to run these beasts to their fullest capabilities but the fact is that wasnt true.
Many many casual gamers had craptops from companies like dell or whoever that didnt have those great 3d capabilities. BUT THEY WERE STILL ABLE TO PLAY THOSE GAMES. and hence buy them
That is no longer the case and therefore the PC gaming market has shrunk over night with the release of the next gen engines. UT3 on PC has 0% chance to reach the success levels of its predecessors until hardware manufactures start putting out integrated graphics chips capable of handling current gen gaming in mass production.
Until (or If) that happens PC gaming will be bleeding out and dying a slow death. Consoles are the only reason a company like Epic is even able to continue making UT games. If it weren't for 360 and PS3 there would be no UT3. Or there would have been, epic woulda lost there ass gone bankrupt and certainly there would be no UT4.
So please people, stop hating on epic. Try and understand the realities of the situation the PC gaming world is facing right now and direct your frustrations where they belong, at hardware manufacturers. Then maybe something will get done. In the meantime Epic will do what they have to do to survive and I salute them 100%. Cause as long as consoles can keep Epic alive they will continue to port there games to PC. and Ill take a UT game with a consolized console over no UT any day.
And by the way, there is a long time between now and next gen gaming consoles, plenty of time for hardware manufactures to catch up with the times and get decent graphical capabilities out to casual PC users. And if/when that happens and the PC gaming market opens back up, youll see how fast epic will release UE4 for PC,. But untill that happens the PC is no longer a viable means to grow gaming technology, therefore their development efforts have to be centralized around the consoles lifecycles.
If any of you out there still want to hate epic for adapting with the times instead of curling up and dying, then by all means.... meantime ill be playing GoW2
And for the record I have been playing UT since the first demo came out. Only reason I ever bought a console was to get a sneak peak at what UE3 was capable of a year before UT3 came out. Last console I owned before that was an SNES. Thats how much of a <sarcasm> console lover </sarcasm> I am. And even I understand why epic is doing what they have to do. And next time you guys want to trash Xbox or playstation just remember, they are the only reason you got UT3 for PC and they are your only hope for 4.
/end rant
still with no Gears 2 announcement and Gears a blur from the past generation of consoles... Yeah something like that, whens Epic gonna buy what was irrational off 2k already 
W) doesn't already full fill my SC needs.