Mark Rein On PC Gears

[Zenny]

If you've been following the news lately, then you will know that there has been some controversy over whether or not Gears of War will also appear on the PC. Mark Rein, a name that needs no introduction, has finally given us an official comment about the issue:


Gears of War is an Xbox360 exclusive. We're developing it specifically
to take advantage of the power and features of the console. All of the
work on Gears between now and when we ship is toward creating the
ultimate Xbox360 game.

Could we, in the future, adapt Gears for Windows just as Microsoft did
with Halo? Sure we could and, as you can see from J Allard's comments,
Microsoft is clearly cool with that idea. But we're a long way off from
thinking about that. Right now our only goal is to make Gears one of the
"must have" titles for Xbox360 and judging by reaction to our relatively
early showing at E3 we're well on our way toward achieving that. One
major web site, 1UP.com, already voted us their Best Xbox360 Game in
their Best of E3 roundup!

 

[Nereid]

Bah, I knew it.

Firsties!

 

[Juguard]

exclusive suck.

 

[Jaxter]

The only thing worse than microsoft is microsoft's own marketing department... They are telling Epic to say this to push their crap box.

They are simply lying through their teeth, of course it will come out on PC

 

[Bullet10k]

wtf it better not feel like a console port

 

[Major-Lee-High]

Oh well my pc wont run it prolly >_<

 

[ZenPirate]

wtf it better not feel like a console port

How's anything going to feel like a port after xbox 360's launch? As I understand it Microsoft is moving towards a single development system for Windows and Xbox platforms.

 

[Kirin[SC]]

Personally, I wouldn't trust the word "exclusive" for most modern games.

"Exclusive" does NOT necessarily mean that X game will ONLY be on that system FOREVER. In a way, it's just going to be only for a certain system for a certain amount of time then it'll make its way to other systems. Knowing Epic's track record with the PC community, I would expect Gears of War to make its way into the PC within a few months time. I would guess, IMHO, that the PC port would feel like a console game instead of a PC game.

 

[DeathBooger]

I don't think Mark Rein knows what he's talking about. He's clearly misinformed.

 

[Zenny]

From what I've gathered, he said that Gears can come out on PC just right now they're focusing solely on the 360 version. I'd imagine after that they'd focus their attention on UT2007 with a small team porting Gears over to PC. THen have a bigger team work on it once 2007 has shipped.

 

[Dragon_Myr]

"Must have" and "XBox" are too close in that statement. It sounds like a automatic Microsoft reply to get people to hype up more about their XBox260. Yesterday nobody was sure and now today Bill called up Mark and told him what to say.

BU, maybe you should just ignore GoW and see if that scares Epic into supporting the PC platform publically rather than hiding it and pushing it off to an afterthought?

 

[JohnDoe641]

Stupid xCrap -4

Die die die. :maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaddsdda:

 

[Artman40]

But as long as I have a little device, which can play xbox360 or any other platform games on PC, it dosen't matter for me.

 

[MuLuNGuS]

i cant understand this insurgence about the new console generation?

i don't want a Xbox160 or something like that, we are PC gamers aren't we?

 

[SiN-BiN]

I don't think Mark Rein knows what he's talking about. He's clearly misinformed.

I doubt it, he is part or Epic Games

 

[Retodon8]

I doubt it, he is part or Epic Games

I had to smile about that comment too, but... he was only joking... right?
He's Epic's Vice President after all, he has to know what he's talking about.

 

[«BuA»Lurker_71]

He's Epic's Vice President after all, he has to know what he's talking about.

All I have to say in response to this is;

[SARCASM]

2 weeks ​

[/SARCASM]

 

[Retodon8]

All I have to say in response to this is;

[SARCASM]

2 weeks ​

[/SARCASM]

I wonder if anybody even remembers what he really said anymore.

 

[edhe]

"The demo is at least two weeks away."

**Spawn the greatest UT-related photochopping thread everon atari f0s.

 

[BesigedB]

I wonder if anybody even remembers what he really said anymore.

Does it really matter?