Any chance of releasing SiN episodes on Xbox 360?

[Darky]

I was sitting in my friends house looking through his copy of PC Gamer and was really interested in SiN episodes. It looks amazing, but I am not a PC gamer because a) too many buttons confuses me and b)hardware upgrades every year cost me too much. I know PC Gamers hate consoles, well some do anyways, but I think SiN Episodes would be a good . . . investment, here's why:
The Xbox Live infastructure on the Xbox 360 allows for large data downloads such as demos of games, entire levels, and presumably, when the time is right, entire games. Now wouldn't a game made up of premium episodic levels be the exact thing that would use these features to it's fullest. In the article it was mentioned that financing SiN 2 was the problem until Valve came along with Steam. This infastructure is exactly what Microsoft envisioned it's use for. Indie developers to release games to a mass market without having to get a publisher to fork out for distribution and marketing costs.
So is there any chance?

[Xenogenetic]

I read somewhere Xbox360 was going to get HL3, the print in the photo I saw was kinda blurry but my friend agreed with me that it looks more like a 3 than a 2, so maybe somehting even better than SiN:EPS,. like SiN:EPS 2!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Darky]

Yeah, from the Spanish presentation slides. It said Valve-Half-Life 3, but still. Twould be nice to have SiN episodes.

[DI_MeisterM]

Imagine a console powered by Steam /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Michael_Russell]

We are currently focused on the PC version of SiN: Episodes.

While Xbox 360's Marketplace feature makes us giddy with excitement and causes some members of our staff to feel tingly in their shorts, we currently are trying to remain focused on the PC SKU in order to bring you the best possible game we can. We figure that if you had to make a choice between a kick-ass PC first-person shooter and a watered-down cross-platform first-person shooter, you'd probably want the one that kicks ass.

[ninken]

A console could win me over if they let me use a keyboard and mouse to play FPS! Xbox360 will never do that instead they want to run everything by a crummy voice recognition program, Sony PS3 might! Time will only tell.

[Darky]

Originally posted by Michael_Russell:
We are currently focused on the PC version of SiN: Episodes.

While Xbox 360's Marketplace feature makes us giddy with excitement and causes some members of our staff to feel tingly in their shorts, we currently are trying to remain focused on the PC SKU in order to bring you the best possible game we can. We figure that if you had to make a choice between a kick-ass PC first-person shooter and a watered-down cross-platform first-person shooter, you'd probably want the one that kicks ass.



So that's a not right ATM but possibly in the future, maybe co-developed by someone else? And for the guy the posted last. You can buy a keyboard and mouse for the Xbox, and use it on Xbox Live. And just so you know, voice recognition is only used in a few games to control AI teammates, not for player actions.

[ninken]

Originally posted by Darky:
And for the guy the posted last. You can buy a keyboard and mouse for the Xbox, and use it on Xbox Live.



OOHHh well I never saw this until now.... keyboard-mouse conveter (http://xbox.gamespy.com/articles/565/565000p1.html)

Maybe their is hope, the nice device converts the keyboard/mouse inputs to xbox controller inputs, Of course the review clamed it you can't adjust the sensitivity all the way up, because Xbox games have a fixed rate that works with controlers, but its a start!

[JimmyC]

Originally posted by ninken:
A console could win me over if they let me use a keyboard and mouse to play FPS!


That's pretty much the same reason I hate consoles. I am way, way too used to playing games with a keyboard and a mouse. Retraining my hands to use game controllers again is not something that's going to happen.

Funny thing is that I find that game controllers have too many buttons. 2 joysticks which are also buttons, triggers, 6 buttons for the right hand, direction pad for the left. With the keyboad/mouse I can place my hands in position and I have to move a couple of fingers out of position to reload or something. Much more comfortable for me.