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Epic Would Love To Put the Gears of War Franchise On PS3

by Alex Co, posted on 03 March 2011 / 5,364 Views

Gears of War 3 will be arriving this Fall for the 360. To say it's a big game for Microsoft is an understatement since it's one of the very few exclusives Xbox 360 has this year. This means you won't be able to play it unless you have an Xbox 360...or will you?

Speaking to industrygamers,  Epic President Mike Capps was asked if would like the Gears franchise to appear on Sony's console. His reply? "Do we wish we could take all those Killzone [players] and Resistance fans on PS3, and get them to say 'Gears is awesome'? Yeah, sure I'd love to ship the Gears trilogy on PlayStation. That would be fun. I want to be there; I want to be everywhere,"

Having said that, Capps as also acknowledges that Microsoft has been extremely helpful with the Gears franchise.  "I don't regret what we're doing with Microsoft. They make it worthwhile all the time," he added.

So will the Gears of War franchise ever grace the PS3? Capps wouldn't say, in case you thought it was because of Microsoft owning/co-owning the IP, think again. "We definitely own Gears of War. This is our franchise, our IP," so the possibility is still there. Before Xbox 360 fans freak out he was also quick to add that "Time and time again, when it came down to figure out what we do next with Gears, we sat down with Microsoft and they've given us really good, compelling reasons to work with them again."

Aside from Halo, the Gears franchise is arguably the biggest 360 exclusive there is. So, Xbox 360 fans, will you be happy if this ever comes to fruition or would you rather it be kept as a platform exclusive to "preserve its integrity" as some people say.


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57 Comments

EyeAmTJ (on 25 July 2011)

too bad it wont see a Sony console ever, Microsoft ain't that stupid


pitzy272 (on 10 March 2011)

I would get Gears if it came to ps3, and im sure millions of others would as well. Sony, get to chattin with Epic darn it! Theres no way Sony cant realize the importance of the Gears franchise coming to ps3 in their position in the console race.


pitzy272 (on 10 March 2011)

@Riwels Are you 3 years old?


Pho_Hybrid (on 07 March 2011)

I would definatly buy it day 1!


thismeintiel (on 05 March 2011)

lol at some of the meltdowns in here.


ali_manslayer (on 04 March 2011)

sony do your thing


arcane_chaos (on 04 March 2011)

damn, if this were to happen I think the internet wil blow up bigger than the FF XIII becoming multi-plat. E3 just got a little more interesting !!! lol


Riwels (on 04 March 2011)

Ps3 sucks...


Silver-Tiger (on 04 March 2011)

Nah, Cliffy just hates the DS3 controller, that's why Gears will never come to PS3. :D I haven't played Gears 2, but from what I can tell from Gears 1 on PC, it's an awesome IP. As soon as Gears 2/3 comes out for PS3 or PC, I'm gonna get it.


ruff_romeo (on 04 March 2011)

sony go to hell! Gears of war is only as good as it is because its on the xbox 360! PS3 controllers suck anyway, and the experience would never be as good! PS3 can never do gears any justice!


DonFerrari (on 04 March 2011)

I don't play Gears or much FPS, but Gears on PS3 would be a nice addition. As for Epic they will probably keep the game in Xbox as they have more benefits than multiplating now.


Alby_da_Wolf (on 04 March 2011)

LOL at somebody freaking out :-D Relax, it didn't happen yet! :-P


biakcunghnin (on 04 March 2011)

all own by xbox 360. ps3 R.I.P. go to hell


AussieGecko (on 04 March 2011)

all own by sony biakcunghnin apart from maybe killzone so I doubt it


biakcunghnin (on 04 March 2011)

never on ps3. never dream about gears of war on ps3, but Killzone , gt 5 and ucharted on xbox 360 soon


Cueil (on 04 March 2011)

@Ping_ii clearly ignorance is something you do not want to be rid of. Go and actually look up the IPs that Microsoft owns


Ping_ii (on 04 March 2011)

whats the point of bringing a 2006 game to ps3 around near the end of the consoles lifespan? I say keep it to the 360, the last thing 360 needs specially RIGHT NOW is to lose another exclusive...I mean for god sakes gears and forza are the only games they have to look forward to exclusively and they are gonna lose it?


AussieGecko (on 04 March 2011)

@APKenna Microsoft and Apple are closer than Apple and Sony, check any apple conference almost and you will see Microsoft featured in some way. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates are too close for them to be at each others throats. Plus the biggest thread for Apple is not the console business but phone and Google is at the forefront of that, Ms and Apple will somehow combat Android together imo. But enough about that. Ms have plenty to "brag" about. This is one game that isnt even multi plat. Ms have many exclusive franchises, you people need to relax haha.


APKenna (on 04 March 2011)

PS3 Only owner here, we don't need it, and if this were to happened, I would feel very sorry for 360 owners not having a reason to brag about their console anymore. After ME2 jumped into PS3, there's no reason for GoW series to come along, and why would anyone would want to own a 360 anymore, but this might end the pointless "console wars". But I also have a solution, Sony and Microsoft should form an alliance, Sony would make the Hardware while Microsoft would focus all attention on the software and make it un-hackable. I do have a prediction too, considering that Apple and Sony are "bussiness partners" through the BDA... I would think they both may get together and bring a console like no other, now this would be interesting.


AussieGecko (on 04 March 2011)

HA I was right, Gears is Epic's and on that they chose it to be a 360 exclusive. Suck it haha


thismeintiel (on 03 March 2011)

@ Hyruken Uncharted would never come to 360 because Sony actually does own it. As Epic has said on several occasions, they completely own GeoW, not MS. @ OP I think this may happen, but probably at the end of this gen or it may be saved for next gen. And something tells me Sony is going to find the right balance between price, power, and development ease next gen which is going to give them an edge. And considering Sony has WAY more first party studios and game IPs than MS, MS is going to have its work cut out for them next gen.


JBravo (on 03 March 2011)

I would love for the exclusives to end. I own both ps3 and 360 and there both awsome! It would be like, just chose the one that most suits you and play great games! And I also would like if they shared the same servers so both could play each other on multiplayer! Bbut I guess that is just like Thomas moores "Utopia", NEVER GONNA HAPPEN! Oh well....


rakugakist (on 03 March 2011)

I would buy all three. I'd buy the first two again, just for trophies. Gears is awesome, and I own a 360, but the more people who can enjoy it the better. Exclusivity is going to be in house first parties by the next generation. Well, unless either Sony or Microsoft opens their wallets and pays out for it, but even then I think it would be timed exclusivity. That being said, I don't expect to see Gears on PS3 anytime soon, but it would be nice.


cmeese47 (on 03 March 2011)

That would be nice.


V-r0cK (on 03 March 2011)

As a PS3 owner i dont want the Gears franchise to go multiplat. Gears is one of the titles that defines the 360 and since the beginning of this gen there hasnt been many 3rd party titles that help define and differentiate a console and i miss that.


UnknownFact (on 03 March 2011)

PS3 player here, I don't need it. :)


dirkd2323 (on 03 March 2011)

Thank god for my PS3 , 360 exclusives this year suck, Gears is all they have, and I could care less about Kinect, Im not a dancer or a singer, Im a gamer, Its PS move all the way !!, I dont care if gears comes to PS3, they have enough great shooters, and I already have a 360


Lazthelost (on 03 March 2011)

@SxyxS - Actually they made Crackdown 2 in 8 months.


SxyxS (on 03 March 2011)

there are lots of exclusiv 360 games this year-if you like kinect. I think it wouldn"t be a good idea to lose gears after mass effect. "microsoft have given us real good"?-i suppose he means lots of money. minimum 2 million sold ps3 gears would mean:70 million gain. But i don"t understand why such a big title isn"t owned by MS.If they lose Gear there will only be boring fable and crackdown(1st part was great 2nd part was a fullprize add on,4 year for such a sad sequel)


Alby_da_Wolf (on 03 March 2011)

This gen, unless a game is owned by a console manufacturer, "exclusive" means "timed exclusive" (or, for Square-Enix, "multiplatform" :-P)


MO-MO-KILLA (on 03 March 2011)

Viperlegendkiller: I WILL HIT MY BONG AS MUCH AS I WANT TO, THANK YOU.


XanderZane (on 03 March 2011)

I wonder if Insomniac Games feels the same way about Resistance. Sega could easily do a Valkyria Chronicles 1 -3 Collectors Edition for the XBox 360. I'd buy that. I still don't know why Microsoft hasn't bought SEGA and EA yet. Buy those 2 companies and you'll have exclusives forever and ever.


viperlegendkiller (on 03 March 2011)

STOP HITTING THE BONG MOMOKILLA


Hyruken (on 03 March 2011)

Hang on a sec, something doesn't seem right with what he is saying. I thought MS co owned the series? I am pretty certain i remember CliffyB saying that Gears was and always will be a MS exclusive due to the fact they co own it? And he only said a couple of weeks ago "“I think our current set with Microsoft dictates that for us internally it makes more sense for Gears to remain a 360 franchise for the foreseeable future…plus I don’t like the PlayStation 3 controller." http://www.strategyinformer.com/news/10985/cliffyb-on-why-gears-is-a-360-exclusive So saying "Microsoft Dictates" pretty much confirms that too. I think there is about as much chance as Uncharted going to 360 and there is of Gears going to PS3. Which is almost zero.


donsterydo2 (on 03 March 2011)

Black Fist: Where do likes of you come from ? Every game that is published by Microsoft Game Studios is in reality owned by M$.


MO-MO-KILLA (on 03 March 2011)

And this is the beauty of owning both consoles, I don't miss out on any of my favorite franchises because it is an exclusive. That said, if the 360 were to ever lose the Gears franchise as an exclusive, it would be a major, major blow to the console. While I find that XBL is better than PSn (because of the features, XBL is not faster or technically superior, it just has better community features), and sometime ago the multi plats were much better on Xbox (not so much now, they're about equal now a days), it is the exclusives and their popularity that sale consoles. People will be able to deal with less features and slightly under derveloped games on any console, if it has the best exclusives. It could kill the Xbox as a console brand, it would be that big of a blow, because it would only have Halo and Fable as its big name, console selling aka reasons why to get this over the other console, exclusives. And seeing how I never cared for Halo. and neither does a large base of the 360 (yes it sold a ton, but not every one that has a 360 bought halo), and how my feelings for Fable have become less than optimistic or desireable, this would effectively kill the Xbox for, I would have no reason to own one anymore.


Black Fist (on 03 March 2011)

Someone from Epic will be on the Sony E3 stage, like Gabe Newell last year, and announcing the Gears of War trilogy on the PS3...mark my words...that, or a exclusive for the PS3. What Mike Capps said in that interview is, all Sony has to do is ask for Gears, and it will there. I would love for that to happen, i would laugh like a maniac. No, i don´t have a PS3, yes, i have a 360, and i know that MS needs to lose EVERYTHING for them to wake up and smell the roses, because their problem is...THEY DON'T CARE


brazylianwisnia (on 03 March 2011)

unless MS will pay them 100mln $ GOW 4 will be multiplatform on next gens.i think that is what is written between lines.Epic wont to make money so either MS will compensate them sales of GOW on PS4 or it will be multiplatform.


abhiram_33 (on 03 March 2011)

come to the dark side mass effect 2 did


NSS7 (on 03 March 2011)

I dont think it will happen. Gears franchise is like face of Xbox360 other than Halo.


AbbathTheGrim (on 03 March 2011)

I'm trying to read but all those letters start revolving and forming the word Uncharted over and over again.


NotStan (on 03 March 2011)

The quality of these articles is going right down the drain, I think ill just stick with numbers and forums from now on.


Adobo (on 03 March 2011)

I bought: ME2, & Dragon Age for PS3 so I will buy this if ever :)


riders42 (on 03 March 2011)

Not that fun of a game anyways so I don't care


enrageorange (on 03 March 2011)

@Strofan7 Fanboys said said back when halo 3 was announced. Turned out they were right eye.


skullking (on 03 March 2011)

Heh.. Yeah I'd love to have 'The Last Guardian' on Xbox 360, but, that ain't gonna happen. So the gist of this is, 'Epic is Greedy'.


Omac (on 03 March 2011)

Posting this crap is just an excuse for flamebait. I'm sure he would love to put it on wii also.


Michael-5 (on 03 March 2011)

$$$$ If Gears went multi-platform, then I would see no reason getting a successor MS console over a PS4. I can like without Halo and Forza and the handful of smaller franchise exclusives... Then again if the Xbox 720 had an arcade edition that was $130 on Boxing Day, I'd buy it.


excaliburps (on 03 March 2011)

This line: "Yeah, sure I'd love to ship the Gears trilogy on PlayStation."


hunter_alien (on 03 March 2011)

Well, MGS grased the Xbox, Gears could do the same. The trilogy IMO will never arrive on the PS3, but a multiplatform spinoff/reeboot is not out of question.


kain_kusanagi (on 03 March 2011)

I doubt Gears of War 1, 2, and 3 will ever come to PS3, but future games in the series might. Unless MS keeps making it "worthwhile" to be Xbox exclusive.


Wandamaximoff (on 03 March 2011)

halo doesnt sell consoles? LMFAO


oniyide (on 03 March 2011)

id be shocked if it did happen, i didnt know that MS did not own the IP, so we probably wont see a Gears game for a while after 3, not that Kinect thing


oniyide (on 03 March 2011)

id be shocked if it did happen, i didnt know that MS did not own the IP, so we probably wont see a Gears game for a while after 3, not that Kinect thing


D-Joe (on 03 March 2011)

wtf between title and article


Omac (on 03 March 2011)

This article say's nothing of Gears going to PS3. Who makes these article as main news?


Strofan7 (on 03 March 2011)

If gears goes to PS3 then xbox literally has nothing left. Halo isn't as groundbreaking as it used to be and definitely shouldn't be regarded as a console seller anymore. This and Fable are the only Xbox games I feel I'm missing out on.