Confirmed: Unreal Tournament 3 to be timed PS3 exclusive

  

Now one of the biggest news that touched the PC bracket is the fact that Unreal Tournament 3 will be a timed exclusive for Sony‘s PlayStation 3, following Sony’s press conference at the E3 Media & Business Summit in Santa Monica. Epic Games has entered a deal with Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) to optimize the Unreal Engine for the PS3.

In line with this, Sony has announced an November release date for the PlayStation 3 version of Unreal Tournament 3, with an engine specially optimized for rendering and playing on the CELL BE-powered console. Or so goes the official press release from Sony:

Midway and Epic Games will make the platform debut of Unreal Tournament 3, one of the worldÂ’s premiere first-person shooters, exclusively on PS3 this fall, unleashing the full power of Unreal Engine 3 with graphics, gameplay and challenges brought to a whole new level.

In contrast, the PC and Xbox 360 versions were targeted for an early September release. And as Mark Rein did clarify previously, all versions will be optimized for their respective platforms. However, questions have risen on whether the term “exclusively on PS3” only encompasses the next-generation consoles or also includes the PC.

And while Epic has yet to clarify the details, analysts have pegged the Xbox 360 delay as a logical and timely preparation for the release of Bungie’s Halo 3 coming September. Speculations also bubbled up as to whether the PC version is also being moved in anticipation for Crytek’s Crysis, another shooter claimed technologically superior to UT3, coming sometime in Q3 2007.

  

Now one of the biggest news that touched the PC bracket is the fact that Unreal Tournament 3 will be a timed exclusive for Sony‘s PlayStation 3, following Sony’s press conference at the E3 Media & Business Summit in Santa Monica. Epic Games has entered a deal with Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) to optimize the Unreal Engine for the PS3.

In line with this, Sony has announced an November release date for the PlayStation 3 version of Unreal Tournament 3, with an engine specially optimized for rendering and playing on the CELL BE-powered console. Or so goes the official press release from Sony:

Midway and Epic Games will make the platform debut of Unreal Tournament 3, one of the worldÂ’s premiere first-person shooters, exclusively on PS3 this fall, unleashing the full power of Unreal Engine 3 with graphics, gameplay and challenges brought to a whole new level.

In contrast, the PC and Xbox 360 versions were targeted for an early September release. And as Mark Rein did clarify previously, all versions will be optimized for their respective platforms. However, questions have risen on whether the term “exclusively on PS3” only encompasses the next-generation consoles or also includes the PC.

And while Epic has yet to clarify the details, analysts have pegged the Xbox 360 delay as a logical and timely preparation for the release of Bungie’s Halo 3 coming September. Speculations also bubbled up as to whether the PC version is also being moved in anticipation for Crytek’s Crysis, another shooter claimed technologically superior to UT3, coming sometime in Q3 2007.