Unreal Tournament 2007 delayed until 2007

[SymetriX]

Gamespot reported (http://www.gamespot.com/news/6154971.html) this afternoon that Midway has officially delayed Unreal Tournament 2007 until next year:

Today, representatives for Midway Games, which took over Unreal publishing duties from Atari in July 2004, announced that Unreal Tournament 2007 will not be released in time for the 2006 holiday season.
Midway did not comment specifically in regards to the PS3 version, which was originally slated to be a launch title. Interestingly, the announcement failed to even mention the PS3 by name, fueling speculation that an Xbox 360 release is imminent:

The next gen version(s) [of UT2007] have yet to be tagged with an exact ship date yet.
Could this have anything to do with Mark Rein's big announcement (http://www.evilavatar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15486) ?

Editor: Thanks Phanto for a duplicate submission.

[Zanzibar]

blah blah blah Show me where it says that UT2007 isn't a PS3 exclusive blah blah blah

Oh, BY THE WAY (http://www.e3insider.com/news/?articleID=0JM07A1IWI), linked in the article mentioned, Midway CEO Zucker said that UT2007 was coming to the PC, PS3, and...XBOX 360.

[Evil Avatar]

Oh, BY THE WAY (http://www.e3insider.com/news/?articleID=0JM07A1IWI), linked in the article mentioned, Midway CEO Zucker said that UT2007 was coming to the PC, PS3, and...XBOX 360.

Seems logical. Why release the title on a system with an installed base of 300k units (PS3 launch) and not release it on a system with an installed base of like 5 Million units (Xbox 360)?

[Bumbuliuz]

Why do we Pc gamers have to suffer because the loving between Mark Rein and Sony?? :(

[SymetriX]

Oh, BY THE WAY (http://www.e3insider.com/news/?articleID=0JM07A1IWI), linked in the article mentioned, Midway CEO Zucker said that UT2007 was coming to the PC, PS3, and...XBOX 360.
Sorry Zanz but I gotta slap you with a RTFA on this one:

At the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2006, Midway CEO David Zucker said the game was being released for "for PC, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3," but the company has subsequently refused to confirm the game is coming to Microsoft's platform.
I take that as no Xbox 360 confirmation as of now, although IMO it only seems a formality at this point.

[Atepsflame]

Dammit! I want this goddamn game, NOW!

[Rafer]

I wonder what the first Unreal Engine 3 game will be, it would be funny if it's released by someone other than Epic.

[Demo_Boy]

Suppose for a second you ran a company that had been bought out by Sony so their PS3 would have an exclusive title.
Now suppose you are having a bit of trouble getting everything running at the level of polish you want.
Ship a 70% game at day 1, or postpone it a year and use the massive pile of cash to feed your employees and make an uber game to own them all, while the sdks and features firm up.
Sure, sounds fine to me I guess.
I think it gives 360 additional strenght in early days against PS3 with Gears.

[devicelimit]

Well, they have until New Years Eve 2007 to release before they have to change the naem.

[Kamalot]

I've heard Mark Rein say in video interviews that Unreal Tournament 2007 is coming to PC and Next-Gen Consoles. I don't know what consoles he would be talking about if he didn't mean the PS3, 360 or Wii.

I don't think we'll see Unreal Tournament 2007 on Wii.

[Deathbane27]

I've heard Mark Rein say in video interviews that Unreal Tournament 2007 is coming to PC and Next-Gen Consoles. I don't know what consoles he would be talking about if he didn't mean the PS3, 360 or Wii.

I don't think we'll see Unreal Tournament 2007 on Wii.

Oblivion was also going to be released on next-generation consoles. That s doesn't really mean much. :p

[Kamalot]

Oblivion was also going to be released on next-generation consoles. That s doesn't really mean much. :p
Oblivion may still be released on PS3. We don't know yet.

[zrikz]

Aww this is sad news indeed, I was so looking forward to a new UT... I guess the Wii will have to hold me over until then. That and quake wars comes out this year right?

[Atepsflame]

Aww this is sad news indeed, I was so looking forward to a new UT... I guess the Wii will have to hold me over until then. That and quake wars comes out this year right?

Nope. It got pushed back, too.

[Captain Awesome]

I wonder what the first Unreal Engine 3 game will be, it would be funny if it's released by someone other than Epic.


Gears of War?

[Zanzibar]

Sorry Zanz but I gotta slap you with a RTFA on this one:


I take that as no Xbox 360 confirmation as of now, although IMO it only seems a formality at this point.
I actually read it, but I took their 'refusal to confirm' in the same vein that Bungie 'refused to confirm' the existence of Halo 3 after Bill Gates mentioned it in a news conference. If the HEAD GUY OF THE COMPANY knows that it's in development, then it's in development.

[Heretic Machine]

Bleh... does anyone actually buy Unreal for a console? The best thing about the Unreal Tournament games are the annual Make Something Unreal contests. You won't be getting that on a console (or will you?!)

[Not bashing console FPS games, I like them. I just prefer them to be made specifically for the console.]

[Reanimated]

No biggie. I was waiting for the 360 version anyway.

[Stormwatcher]

Well, DUUUH?!
It's called UNREAL TWO THOUSAND AND SEVEN, people, what did you expect?
;)

[EvilBob46]

Interestingly, the announcement failed to even mention the PS3 by name, fueling speculation that an Xbox 360 release is imminent:

How can the Xbox 360 release be "imminent" when the game has been delayed until 2007? For some reason, I don't think you know what the word means. You're saying the Xbox 360 release is "about to occur," and it certainly isn't with a 2007 release date.

[F3nyx]

I wonder what the first Unreal Engine 3 game will be, it would be funny if it's released by someone other than Epic.Roboblitz is still scheduled for 2006, perhaps even summer.

How can the Xbox 360 release be "imminent" when the game has been delayed until 2007? For some reason, I don't think you know what the word means. You're saying the Xbox 360 release is "about to occur," and it certainly isn't with a 2007 release date.Perhaps he meant immanent (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/immanent) :p

[gzsfrk]

My guess--even though it's being pushed back to 2007, it will STILL be a PS3 launch title. :)

[Phanto]

My guess--even though it's being pushed back to 2007, it will STILL be a PS3 launch title. :)

For that to occur PS3 will have to get delayed too if I'm not mistaken..

In another side note...I don't mind that UT its been released to consoles too, obvious for the increased of popularity of this system still if they dare to make a port for the PC (obvious its not about to happend) they will sure screw the game, my point here is that they will need to focus the game for each system which mean more work and spend more $$, so we better hope that they don't do crappy ports for each consoles.