Confirmed: EA puts Red Alert 3 PS3 on hold

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.

PS3mote compatibility to be included – CONFIRMED.

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

/looks over shoulder

“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…”

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

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.

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.

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

The spirit of Dreamcast has a new home.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

*thumbs down*

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

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

“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.

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.

It will get destroyed by Starcraft 2 regardless.

RTS on consoles? Doesn’t work.