Gamespy is the latest to catch up with Epic Games' Pres, Mike Capps, to talk about the EA deal to publish the new game for their subsidiary studio, People Can Fly. In addition to acknowledging that the game will have a multiplayer component (shocking!), he confirms that the game will ship three platforms simultaneously.
Mike Capps: It's the kind of game you'd expect. I mean, Painkiller was the game that was chosen to be the main competition game for the CPL. It's Fatality's favorite game to play for competition. That's the stuff they do really well, the multiplayer deathmatch type of stuff. We'd be kind of stupid to throw away their expertise in that area...
... I think we'll ship them all [PS3, PC, Xbox 360] at the same time. Our tech is pretty mature now, so it's safe to say that all versions will be on the same timeline. The did an Xbox port of Painkiller at one point, so they've made a console game before and with the Gears PC stuff, they were working on the Xbox 360 a lot, so we're pretty confident about it. The PS3 is the only platform they haven't shipped on, but we've got a lot of expertise there so it shouldn't be a problem. Luckily, the problem now is making cool games, not worrying about the tech anymore. We're past that stage in the generation.