I'm honestly not suprised Mark and Epic like to always be on the cutting edge. As Happy Squirel said Epic is a graphic whore company. They make their money from developing the best possible graphics engine for the most powerful systems.
If Epic wasn't interested I would be very shocked. Also Gears coming to NGP or PS3,not likely I'm pretty sure Microsoft has the rights to the Gears franchise or at least a contract for so and so many games. So I don't expect Gears headed to NGP anytime soon if at all.
The Unreal 3 engine running on NGP will be a huge bonus for Sony and many developers will likely use it. Also dev costs will be a bitch if the title is not multiplatform, even though M.U.G.E.N's would like to think otherwise. It'll carry the same budget as a PS3 title which has gone down over the years but is still pretty damn high.
Which is why I think more studios and publishers will put their PS3 titles on NGP as well. Rather then building all that much software from the ground up for NGP. Think with this announcement how easy it will be for a publisher to take an Unreal 3 game from the PS3 and port it over to NGP. Even Epic's example is a port.
I think this is great news for NGP!
-JC7
"In God We Trust - In Games We Play " - Joel Reimer
