Turbine confirms new MMO for PS3, Xbox 360 |
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They're being sued right now, but at least Turbine is still focusing on what they're supposed to do: make games. Over at the Austin GDC, Craig Alexander, the company's VP of project development, confirmed that they currently have a console MMO in the works.
During his keynote, Alexander intimated that this isn't a new decision, although it looks like the game will be a brand new IP. Apparently the project has been in their production house for a year and a half now, with over US$ 20 million already spent on it. The as-yet-unnamed MMO is being optimized for a 2011 release on PS3 and Xbox 360.
With the resources spent on it it's easy to see that there's a lot riding on this console project. It could pay off big for Turbine, though, as Alexander expressed the belief that consoles will eventually surpass PCs in the MMO market. I don't know about that, but if Turbine delivers on this game it may finally break the console MMO market wide open.
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Consoles will never surpass the PC, unless the game allows mouse and keyboards.. Or maybe if the MMOs are in a totally different format. The thing that clicks with PCs and MMOs is the easily available mods and ability to make them, the ton of shortcuts you can have.. and it's just more convenient to go to than a console
I wouldn't mind an mmo on a console, as long as it was done properly.
The game wouldn't be able to have as many commands as warcraft, or have the crazy interface that eve has.
Still, they could make combat more action based and still have lots of the same interface commands (using eyetoy, natal, psmotion controller, and both systems can handle a keyboard and mouse).
I think also to get the numbers that you have in other mmo's on PC, they would have to make it so ps3 and 360 users played together.
I'm not sure about the 360, but the PS3 supports Mouse and Keyboard.