The Gears of War franchise will receive its http://www.industrygamers.com/news/xbox-360-has-most-anticipated-title-of-2011-in-gears-of-war-3---ipsos/ - much anticipated third installment later this fall, and Epic Games is expecting it to be the "entertainment event of 2011," but that's an event that PS3 owners won't be able to participate in. The exclusive partnership with Microsoft for the Gears trilogy has definitely been a beneficial one for Epic, but we asked Epic President Mike Capps during GDC if he'd like to be able to put Gears on Sony's platform to perhaps increase sales even more.

"Do we wish we could take all those Killzone [players] and Resistance fans on PS3, and get them to say 'Gears is awesome'? Yeah, sure I'd love to ship the Gears trilogy on PlayStation. That would be fun. I want to be there; I want to be everywhere," he said.

Even so, Capps acknowledges that Microsoft has been immensely helpful to Epic with the Gears franchise. "I don't regret what we're doing with Microsoft. They make it worthwhile all the time," he said.

Capps explained how the deal first started with Microsoft: "I think we were very eyes open... there was no Xbox 360 (it was called something else) and we were guessing they'd be more successful than they were in the previous gen... And we thought they had a real plan for something successful. For us, we were pitching a story-based game; we were just the 'Unreal studio' right? So we were both taking a risk, and it paid off in a huge way for Gears.  The amount of support they put behind Gears... it was really to launch their platform, to show what Xbox 360 could do - the whole HD experience with Samsung. I think we really delivered that. So we continue to get love from Microsoft in a way that I don't think we could get from a publisher focused on cross-platform."

So will Gears of War ever come to PS3? Capps wouldn't say, but he did note that, "We definitely own Gears of War. This is our franchise, our IP," so the possibility is still there. However, he added, "Time and time again, when it came down to figure out what we do next with Gears, we sat down with Microsoft and they've given us really good, compelling reasons to work with them again."

"They don't just market it; they do amazing work and they have a user testing team that makes our games better, and so each time we've come to the point of 'what do we do next?' we've been happy to work with them. They help us make a better product and do some really cool marketing on the platform, so we save some money there."

De kunne helt sikkert godt tænke sig, at sælge spillet til et større publikum. Spørgsmålet er så bare, hvad mon MS siger til det? Men hvis Epic får ordenlig support fra Sony, burde det i mine øjn ikke være noget problem.

Det kunne helt sikkert være fedt med Gears serien til PS3. Jeg har gennemført 1'eren dengang jeg havde en Xbox 360, og det kunne da være cool nok, hvis de udgav en all-in-one box, til en fornuftig pris, til efter 3'eren er udkommet.