Will Gears Of War Ever Go Multiplat?

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Million said:

Squilliam said:
Gears is likely to sell 11M+ between two games released within 4 years. They wouldn't risk anything which could potentially damage sales of their darling franchise like spread their resources too thinly and a cross advertising deal with Microsoft for exclusivity is something which definately pays off.

 

The bolded is absolute garbage .First you "spreading resources" point is flawed a big project like Gears will likely draw more resources from other areas of epic if needs be. As for a microsoft advertising deal > Multiplatform release = LOL.

 

@Twestern "Gears 2 didn't go multiplatform because it didn't have a 5 year development cycle and they knew it would sell more than a million on the first day.  Gears 3 will likely be the same story."

That doesn't explain why Epic wouldn't make a PS3 version of the game .

 

I assumed you would get the whole they just don't need to thing.  MS is still publishing the game and giving them money and that's all they need.  The game sells a crap load of copies on a single platform so they get money from that and MS publishes the game so they have that covered.

Sure, if MS wasn't throwing money at them they might go multiplatform but they just have no reason to right now.  Besides, they've already seen with Bioshock the kind of attention they would likely get.