PS3 Has 'Zero Chance' of Getting Gears of War, says BleszinskiPS3 owners keep clamoring for Epic to bring the Gears of War franchise to Sony's platform, but it doesn't look like it's going to happen. Despite Epic Games President Mike Capps telling IndustryGamers back at GDC that he "would love" to bring Gears to PS3, Epic design director Cliff Bleszinski just told us at E3 that it's highly unlikely and he'd like to "bury" this ongoing question.
Here are the words Sony gamers won't want to read: "I would say in the foreseeable future there’s zero chances of Gears of War being on the PlayStation 3. Can we bury that now? Seriously. It’s like, we have a great deal with Microsoft, they’re a great partner..."
We interrupted and alluded to what Capps had told us previously, but Bleszinski countered that it simply makes for a good news story. He remarked, "It’s one of those things that would be exciting news. Hopefully DualShock would get tweaked a little bit, but anyway, enough about that."
It's something that clearly won't be happening for quite some time, if ever. While being on one console does limit sales, Epic also saves a boatload of money by having Microsoft run the entire marketing campaign, which has been absolutely massive for each Gears title.
And by the way, there's definitely more Gears coming beyond Gears 3, if that wasn't already clear - it's simply the end of that trilogy, not the end of the franchise. Bleszinski thanked us for "not being dumb about that" and he proceeded to ask in a mocking voice, "Is this the last Gears ever?" He's obviously very tired of that question!
