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Epic Games: Sony PS3 Claims "Bullsh!t"
- October 03, 2006 14:25 PM PST
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Epic Games's outspoken vice president has lashed out at Sony's claims that the next generation of video gaming starts with the PS3.
Gears of War: "the first second-generation game for Xbox 360"
Fuming that Sony's claims of next-generation supremacy are "bullsh!t," Epic Games's outspoken vice president, Mark Rein, gave the company a public tongue-lashing at the Game Developers' Conference in London.
"Sony says the next generation starts when they say so. I say, that's bullsh!t. Gears of War is the first second-generation game for Xbox 360 and.... you will never see launch titles that look this good."
--Mark Rein, VP of Epic Games, at GDC London
"Sony says the next generation starts when they say so. I say, that's bullsh!t," Rein countered. Epic Games provides the Unreal Engine middleware for all the next-gen consoles, from the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 to Nintendo's Wii. Epic is currently developing marquee action title Gears of War for the Xbox 360.
UPDATE: Rein also mentioned that the software developer has some "worried customers" in regards to Unreal Engine 3.0 support on the PlayStation 3, customers who are bombarding Epic with questions like "How are we going to get [our PS3 game] to perform as well as the Xbox 360?"
Rein also countered skeptics who have described the Gears of War single-player experience as too short, saying that the full version will take most players "at least 12 hours" to complete. He also promised that the company has saved "a lot of surprises" for the final version of the game, due out in November for the Xbox 360.
Yeesh. As refreshing as I find his candor, Rein is going to really put his foot in his mouth one of these days. He's already bashed Sony several times, and even critiqued Nintendo's Wii controller.
Just because Unreal is the current development platform of choice doesn't mean that a new challenger won't emerge tomorrow. Bashing Sony and Nintendo isn't necessarily a smart long-term move.
