Porting to Console? Hmmm.....

[BGP]

I stumbled upon this just a bit ago:

http://www.cytiva.com/turbin/ext/Det...asp?turbin1283

Does this mean that DDO or LOTRO is going to be a console game also?

Very interesting....

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[ArkoHighStar]

looks like they are trying to get a port of the basic engine that both DDO, and LOTRO share to sell to console game makers.

[Mockduck]

That would be sweet! Looks like maybe it's more a matter of offering the underlying game engine to other developers to use, similar to how the Half Life engine is available. But, yeah - let's get DDO to the console crowd!

[Drider]

I doubt that DDO would be ported to console.

That would be a huge monetary investment into a game that just had server merges.

[BGP]

I played in early Beta for LOTRO. I believe that they use the same engine. Why else would they be advertising for some one who can lead a project to

"project to port and update Turbine’s award winning MMOG engine to take advantage of modern console systems"

I am not sure what else it could mean.

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[Uska]

If they do it I imagine its like conan is supose to be for now seperate servers for console and pc. But they said for years they were going to do that to SWG and it never happened

[Markavenger]

it doesnt necesarily mean that they are going to port LOTR and DDO to consoles maybe just the engine so they can creat a new online console game of ther own ti get into a new market for them.

[Knightrose]

Id much rather play DDO on my PS3. But I doubt that will ever happen.

Since we're on the topic man am I ****ed to see a ps3 for 600$ at 80gigs when I paid 900% for my 60gig.

Cheers

[KKDragonLord]

Wasn't there a thread for this? trying to find it because i got some related news and it seems to be just gone.

BTw, all the threads about the atari lawsuit seem to have evaporated as well

(or am i just not finding stuff anymore?)

well whatever, here: Turbine & Twisted Pixel making Console MMO

Awhile back there were rumours about a new Turbine Console MMO and we all pitched in suggestions for what it would be, a DDO console version in everybody wish list but a Harry Potter MMO at the top of the Realistic guess list.


EDIT: Ooops, NVM, didnt notice that this one is in the Suggestion section, gonna start over in the general discussion.