Comments on: Confirmed: EA puts Red Alert 3 PS3 on hold

By: goon

goon — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:40:23 +0000

It will get destroyed by Starcraft 2 regardless.

RTS on consoles? Doesn’t work.

By: Blerk

Blerk — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:58:30 +0000

I was talking specifically about sales. If it pretty much tanked on the 360 and the PS3 conversion was giving them grief then there’s little wonder they cut their losses.

By: G1GAHURTZ

G1GAHURTZ — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:47:56 +0000

“How well did the last C&C on 360 do?”

in terms of what?

Reviews or sales?

I got it when it came out and played it for a good while.

iirc it got mid 80 reviews, which is about right if you ask me.

I’ll probably pick it up again some time between now and November (Gears 2), which means that I want to go back to it after not having played it for ages, which is a good sign for a game.

By: Whizzo

Whizzo — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:47:43 +0000

I think C&C3 had about 1.5M sales, most of them PC.

By: Blerk

Blerk — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:45:16 +0000

Suddenly it’s all starting to make a bit more sense.

By: patlike

patlike — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:44:13 +0000

*thumbs down*

By: Blerk

Blerk — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:42:15 +0000

How well did the last C&C on 360 do?

By: kasai

kasai — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:29:09 +0000

Mouse and keyboard should stay away from consoles

It doesn’t directly show how hard it is to develop for the ps3 but time is money and I guess EA took the right decision to stop development on it.

By: G1GAHURTZ

G1GAHURTZ — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:16:40 +0000

Oh well… bad news for the PS3, since this is exactly the kind of game that it could use to really show off the fact that you can use a mouse/keyboard with it.

Playing RTS games with a joypad pretty muched ‘advanced players only’ territory.

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:34:24 +0000

I really liked what I saw of this in the recent 15min demo. Looking forward to it.

By: Axle

Axle — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:22:27 +0000

Perhaps not, but I have a personal dislike of C&C. My dad has been playing Generals: Zero Hour (or is it the other way around) for the past eight years and he NEVER plays anyhting else. EVERY TIME I visit my parents he’s playing that game, so much so that even my mum knows the ‘yes massa’ and ‘I’m hungry’ syntagms.

I even bought him Company of Heroes one Christmas so as to introduce him to a more refined RTS, then next time I go there, he’s given it to my brother - FOR HIS BIRTHDAY!!!

Anyone who isn’t subjected to this series is, in my opinon, seriously lucky.

By: Blerk

Blerk — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:16:01 +0000

Come on now, we can’t possibly spin a game cancellation as a *good* thing!

By: Axle

Axle — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:11:50 +0000

This is another reason to buy PS3 - at least they don’t ahve to be subject to another lazy port of a questionable RTS franchise.

By: Tiger Walts

Tiger Walts — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:01:57 +0000

The spirit of Dreamcast has a new home.

By: patlike

patlike — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:57:41 +0000

You should have a look at that Supreme Commander 360 movie I posted earlier. Honestly, it looks very cool.

By: Whizzo

Whizzo — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:55:04 +0000

I thought C&C3 was pretty shite on the PC so this is probably a lucky escape for PS3 owners. RTS games have moved on since the nineties, unfortunately EA’s haven’t.

By: Killerbee

Killerbee — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:39:27 +0000

This sort of game is really meant for the PC, so I can’t see that the loss of a PS3 version is a great worry.

I loved Red Alert back in the day (mid 90s was it? Gosh…) but I have to say I’m much more looking forward to Starcraft II and/or Dawn of War II for my next RTS fix, so I’ll probably give this a miss.

By: patlike

patlike — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:22:06 +0000

Maybe they saw StarCraft II and decided they’d better stop fannying about with PS3.

By: morriss

morriss — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:09:42 +0000

“Porting PC games to PS3 obviously isn’t as straight-forward as they imagined.”

I think you can replace the first few words of that sentence with “Making games for the PS3…”

By: Blerk

Blerk — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:08:03 +0000

Not to worry, anyway - it’s only a boring old PC game.

/looks over shoulder

By: pjmaybe

pjmaybe — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:01:03 +0000

PS3mote compatibility to be included - CONFIRMED.

By: Blerk

Blerk — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:00:31 +0000

Porting PC games to PS3 obviously isn’t as straight-forward as they imagined. And then there’s the multiplayer to contend with too.

Shame really, ‘cos the PS3 version could’ve actually used a mouse and keyboard.