Speaking at this year’s Edinburgh Interactive Festival, Epic Games Vice President Mark Rein talked Unreal Tournament III. Specifically, he talked about cross-platform play. Is it going to happen? Probably not folks.

I’d say it’s unlikely…there’s no technical reason you can’t do it, there’s a lot of reasons why it might not make sense and that is the fact that on a PC we can release a patch five minutes after the last patch if we wanted to. PlayStation 3 we have to go through a fairly complex certing process…that’s not to say we’ll never have it, but I don’t believe we’re going to ship with it as a feature.

The thing is, it’s hard to know if people really want it or not. Do you really want to play against PC players?

EIF 2007: Unreal Tournament III- Mark Rein on the sixaxis and cross-platform play [Games Digest]

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