No Gears of War PC port coming just yet

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No Gears of War PC port coming just yet

The other day we had a rippled of excitement running through our forum when it was pointed out that NVIDIA's ForceWare drivers contain an application profile for Gears of War - Did this mean that a PC version of this awesome Xbox 360 titles is in the works? Epic Games' Mark Rein has, sadly, dashed our hopes - For now at least.

There is no "new information" that Gears will be released on PC. You know console games are developed on PCs, right? Even if we never release Gears of War on PC we still need to run the game on PC to develop and test content for it.

Our first E3 demo, over two years ago, was done on an PC equipped with dual NVIDIA graphics cards. . . . We gave NVIDIA a copy of wargame.exe (along with some sample content from Gears) so they could help us tweak Unreal Engine 3 performance and reliability on NVIDIA graphics chips. That was necessary to make the development tools perform well and ensure that their drivers would support UE3 going forward. That was beneficial because two PC games (Roboblitz and Rainbow Six Vegas) have already shipped for PC and we're planning to ship our next Unreal Tournament game on PC this year as well.
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Rein closes by quoting a recent interview where he stated, "There's nothing to announce at this time. . . . We've said all along that, at some point in the future, we could adapt Gears of Wars for PC. For now however Gears is available exclusively on Xbox360 and we’re still working on improvements and enhancements to it."
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The Tech Report - No Gears of War PC port coming just yet
 
The game has done so well on the X360 and for the X360 that I think they'll let it sit right there a bit longer.
 
^^Look at the Halo series, its taken two years for them to release it on PC. I doubt its gonna be any less for GoW
 
There are many MS games that were stuck with the Xbox and now X360 that haven't made it to PC's, so assuming a game will be released for PC based on Halo alone is not very assuring.
 
Microsoft needs all the good games for the longest time exclusive to the X360 now specially. Its the time they can massively build their fanbase over ps3 or quickly lose it once Ps3's big-time games hit.
 
Who wants GOW :S.... Hl2:episode2, Tf2, Oblivion expansion, Huxley, all around the corner.

Besides i haven't had enuf of company of heros and medieval 2 : total war yet.
 
Hey Sesar. I wonder if you'd have that opinion if GOW started as a PC title.

As for the PS3, it's pretty much selling on brand name alone which I'm sure was exactly what Sony expected otherwise they wouldn't have screwed up launch as much as they did.
 
Sesar said:
Who wants GOW :S.... Hl2:episode2, Tf2, Oblivion expansion, Huxley, all around the corner.

Besides i haven't had enuf of company of heros and medieval 2 : total war yet.
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Err i'd want GOW. As a matter of fact i am hoping that they take their sweet time and give us a good port.
 
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