Dark Messiah Shuns PlayStation 3 and Wii
- Scribbled on May 23rd, 2007 by Derrick Schommer
- Filed in Action, Microsoft Xbox 360, Press Release, Shooter
UbiSoft announces Dark Messiah of Might and Magic, a PC port, for the Xbox 360, but not the other consoles. An Xbox 360 exclusive? Yes, but no.
Microsoft has a big advantage for those games that are PC only because Microsoft supplies a lot of the underlying libraries in Microsoft Windows, for instance, DirectX. When porting games, you’ll have less trouble migrating from the PC to Xbox 360, while you may need to re-design a lot of functionality for the Wii and PlayStation 3.
Thus, it makes sense that Dark Messiah will be an Xbox 360 port only, while the other systems get nothing. It’s hard to justify re-tooling your entire game to port it to a wide variety of consoles. UbiSoft apparently is going for the low hanging fruit on this one.
(Thanks, Joystiq.)
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