Pachter believes Epic “regrets” exclusivity deal with Microsoft

They’d have regretted Gears selling like UT3 without Microsoft’s marketing muscle too.

The rumours are that MS had a timed exclusive deal for Gears 1 & 2 but not the third.

Is that a rumour? I thought everybody knew that by now.

Don’t tempt me

No seriously MS own the Gears IP don’t they not epic? Therefore it will NEVER come to Ps3.

Wow so Naughty dog and the Killzone makers must be head butting themselves that they didn’t get to release there games on 360.

Ridiculous statement. Why do people give Pachter this oxygen?

Gears of War is a mega seller because it was a big Xbox exclusive that received Microsoft’s monster marketing budget.

Epic and Microsoft together made Gears a mega-franchise.

Like shit do Epic regret this. If Gears ever goes multi-format, they’ll be thanking Microsoft for being a part of making it the hit it was.

@Gheritt
Far as i know no one from Epic or MS confirmed it was true.

Nope Lambda, MS dont own the IP. Unlike what Reask said, because both Naughty dog and GG are owned by Sony along with all their games.

As for the marketing, its true. But the franchise has been marketed now, its known to the point where it’ll just sell on any platform. Wouldnt be the first time a games surfed the MS marketing train then got off at PS3 station, remember Bioshock?

@ 5 – both of those studios are owned by sony EPIC is not tho.

@ 7 – ah that’s interesting BRING GEARS TO PS3

the thing is people can bash pachter but I can see where he is coming from on this

Beaten.

Oops didnt know that sorry.

Will never happen at all

It probably wont happen. No doubt MS have the third one under contract already to, if it wasnt round the time that rumour started i’m sure they’ve since flexed their money muscle and got it. Or maybe Epic just wouldnt see the point because the first and second are only on 360 and they see no market on PS3 for it or atleast not a big enought one.

Maybe when Gears is on its 5th or 6th game it may go multiplatform i dont know

ut 2004 is better game than gears of war enough said!

This is all BS. Epic has made a shit load of money from the gears franchise, all to the tune of some big, fat, juicy pay checks from MS.

Guess how Cliffy B got the cash to splurge on that Lamborghini?

Plus, I guess people have forgotten that Kudo Tsunoda is General Manager of the Gears of War franchise for MS. Geez, I wonder how important Gears is to MS…

Can we please stop giving this man column space.

Guys, the question is not if this will happen at all. The question is if you guys want GEoW to go multiplat. Because from what I’m reading you don’t want it on the PS3 at all.

I believe the question was if Epic regrets the exclusivity deal or not.

As a PS3 owner I’m not particulary bothered as the game has never looked overly impressive although to be fair I’ve never actually played it, just seen the vids, but I have read quite a few complaints about the game regarding lag and glitches (this true?).

Regarding it coming to PS3, maybe one day in the future. After all, I thought Final Fantasy would remain firm property of Playstation but look where that went.

15 – Didn’t he give that up for Natal?

Developers surely want fortune but they also want fame.
Recognition from a much wider audience

Pachter is a retard, plain and simple. Epic shopped Gears of War to a number of publishers including Sony and no one wanted to invest 10 million dollars in a modern, violent, postapocolytic shooter. Even Microsoft fought to keep the now infamous chainsaw melee out of the game. Funny how the genre has become this generation’s most popular but moving from the PS2′s casual community to current gen, no one wanted to touch a game like Gears of War.

so the deal was an epic fail?

What so they could make a shoddy port for PS3. No thanks!

@22
I had never heard the stories about Epic shopping the Gears IP around, but that does not at all surprise me. When I think of games that tried to utilize cover systems, I think of Killswitch, which was a massive failure. So only with Microsoft did they get it off the ground. Now consider what showing off the game in its earliest form did. When the first pics and vids of Gears came out, it blew everyone away. I don’t know the statistics here, but a huge amount of games utilize the Unreal Engine today because it is a tool that allows developers more easily make their games, and they all wanted their games to look as good as Gears. The game helped them sell the engine! I’m sure Epic does want to develop PS3 games, but I don’t see them regretting their move with Gears.

Wow some people are getting defensive over this huh. At ease soldiers. He’s just making a remark that exclusivity to a single platform does not make a lot of sense any more. It made perfect sense for Gears 1 of course because MS put their marketing muscle behind it and the PS3 was floundering, but now there’s 30m of them in the world it’s a slightly different equation. That’s all it’s about though. Doesn’t mean it’s going to happen.

since when Gears sells bad
they both sold over 8 millions
ohh Pachter

Michael is wrong. We have a great relationship with Microsoft and we have no regrets.

Goliath,

You said –> “Epic shopped Gears of War to a number of publishers including Sony and no one wanted to invest 10 million dollars in a modern, violent, postapocolytic shooter.”

This is not true.

“Even Microsoft fought to keep the now infamous chainsaw melee out of the game.”

This is not true.

“Funny how the genre has become this generation’s most popular but moving from the PS2’s casual community to current gen, no one wanted to touch a game like Gears of War.”

This is also not true.

You’re 3/3!

Oh Snap!

Holy shit, it’s Mark Rein!

That went well

That was rather amusing I have put more hours into Gears than any other game in my life. Gears 2, played and beat but could not get into the multiplayer, They removed map selection feature and the ability to host a public game for friends while public players can come and go at will…. the lobby system in 2 was just not pleasant.

Err… Mark Rain shut down!

@ Mark Rein

Sorry to burst your bubble Mark but you must not be in the loop. Microsoft did try to nix the chainsaw in Gears of War, Epic did show the game to other publishers including representatives from Sony and shooters are this console generation most popular genre. Catch up.

Oh snap indeed, innit.

But that is INDEED Mark Rein.

I can confirm that.

Comment 36 is an all time classic.

I think it’s fair to say that Goliath’s claims have been officially denied.

THIS IS THE BEST THREAD EVER!

Most ownage ever!

I like this thread, would read again A++++++

I give it 8.5/10

“But that is INDEED Mark Rein.”

That’s awesome.

As I understand it, if Epic have no regrets, then we can assume that the money given by Microsoft for the exclusivity, and their marketing expanses are more substantial than the profits that Gears of War could make on PS3 and PC.

(Epic Games said that the absence of a PC port of Gears of War 2 was their decision, but as the current policy of Microsoft Game Studios is to keep all of their games out of Microsoft Windows, it’s very likely that the decision was made by Microsoft)

btw : who is Goliath to be so sure about his informations ? Is he Phil Harrison ? Kaz Hirai ? ^^

What did I miss?

HOLY FFFUUUU-!!!!!

Mark Rein this is a piss take in it lol

Goliath is a sad, sad person. Even after getting shot down by Mark he follows with a weak and pathetic counter argument. Just, please, stop there. I feel embarrassed for you.

Goddamn! Just read this thread… Holy cow that was brilliant!

officially owned.