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08-16-2007, 01:54 AM
Epic's Mark Rein pleased with Blu-ray's 'legroom'
85 Comments by Ludwig Kietzmann Aug 15th 2007 4:56PM
Filed under: PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, First Person Shooters
Much like a psychotic chainsaw killer, Epic vice president Mark Rein has expressed satisfaction with being given more room to store all those legs. While talking up first-person fragger Unreal Tournament 3 at the Edinburgh Interactive Festival, Rein praised the PlayStation 3 disc format's large storage capacity, noting that "we may have fewer maps on the 360 version...Blu-ray has definitely given us a lot of legroom."
Of course, as Xbox 360 developers are wont to do, Rein applied some damage control on the Epic Games forums, explaining how disappointed he was that "folks on the internet treat any positive thing we say about one platform as some sort of critique of another platform." While ruling out the possibility of two DVDs for the eventual Xbox 360 version of Unreal Tournament 3, Rein suggested that online downloads and hard drives could sort out glaring content deficiencies between platforms.
And before you ask about mod support for Microsoft's console: "We just don't have all the answers today and it isn't our chief priority at this very moment because we already have our hands completely full shipping UT3 on PC and PS3 as well as shipping Gears of War on PC."
[Thanks, Anonymous]
http://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/15/epics-mark-rein-pleased-with-blu-rays-legroom/
I'm sure Mark Rein has grown a bigger "lump" in his back pocket for this comment, cause I haven't seen him make any comment on the ps3 yet. We knew this would happen eventually and this is a game where the maps are big and they give you a lot of maps, so space problems were to come up.
85 Comments by Ludwig Kietzmann Aug 15th 2007 4:56PM
Filed under: PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, First Person Shooters
Much like a psychotic chainsaw killer, Epic vice president Mark Rein has expressed satisfaction with being given more room to store all those legs. While talking up first-person fragger Unreal Tournament 3 at the Edinburgh Interactive Festival, Rein praised the PlayStation 3 disc format's large storage capacity, noting that "we may have fewer maps on the 360 version...Blu-ray has definitely given us a lot of legroom."
Of course, as Xbox 360 developers are wont to do, Rein applied some damage control on the Epic Games forums, explaining how disappointed he was that "folks on the internet treat any positive thing we say about one platform as some sort of critique of another platform." While ruling out the possibility of two DVDs for the eventual Xbox 360 version of Unreal Tournament 3, Rein suggested that online downloads and hard drives could sort out glaring content deficiencies between platforms.
And before you ask about mod support for Microsoft's console: "We just don't have all the answers today and it isn't our chief priority at this very moment because we already have our hands completely full shipping UT3 on PC and PS3 as well as shipping Gears of War on PC."
[Thanks, Anonymous]
http://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/15/epics-mark-rein-pleased-with-blu-rays-legroom/
I'm sure Mark Rein has grown a bigger "lump" in his back pocket for this comment, cause I haven't seen him make any comment on the ps3 yet. We knew this would happen eventually and this is a game where the maps are big and they give you a lot of maps, so space problems were to come up.