Rhett_Y
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Has anybody heard the official release date for Doom III for xbox??
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Wasn't the Alpha of Doom 3 leaked sometime during the Fall season? If so, then wouldn't that mean it could be out soon?The "leaked alpha" was only the four incomplete, unoptimized levels they showed at the last E3. To my knowledge, nothing else has "escaped".
The conspiracy was that Lucasfilm pretty much let Knowles view it so he can give a good review, which means an even larger crowd when the movie openedActually, it turned out that this really WAS a "secret agent" as they prosecuted the guy for lifting stuff off the Lucasfilm servers about 2 months later
I like the quotations. Is there some kind of conspiracy theory going around?I just used the quotations because I don't consider what was leaked out re: Doom 3 even as much as an Alpha. It was more of a tech demo than anything else.
THERE’S A NASTY FRIGHT circulating on the wibble wide web at the moment. Game players around the world are trembling. The rumour is that Microsoft is trying to persuade id to make Doom III an Xbox exclusive. But it may all just be another April 1 joke surfacing late.
It all started with the print issue of Wired or so some have been led to believe. We haven’t seen the issue in question so we can only report on what people who have a friend whose cousin saw it on the newstands are saying. The copy of Wired in question is, of course, the April issue. The article is nowhere to be seen on its site even though most of the main articles are there.
Where does that leave it? It’s certainly not unknown for console manufacturers to go after exclusives. It seems hugely doubtful that id would even consider dropping the PC version and Microsoft will be quite happy for the game to help push a new generation of technology forward on the Windows platform. Consoles are a different matter.
There can be no doubt that getting an exclusive on Doom III would be an amazing PR coup for any company. It would cost a fortune to do, a quick bit of guesstimation and we suspect that you’d be talking at least a $100million to persuade id to leave the Playstation 2 out of the running. That’s one heck of a big chunk of the PR budget to throw at it.
Is there any truth in the rumours? With something like this it’s difficult to tell. If it’s an April 1 story, it’s a good’un. If it’s not, expect it to be plastered all over the web within the next day or so.
The rumour is that Microsoft is trying to persuade id to make Doom III an Xbox exclusive ... It seems hugely doubtful that id would even consider dropping the PC versionInteresting info, Jason, but a console exclusive does not necessarily rule out a PC version (e.g., Halo).
Question: How likely is it that they would port Doom3 to the PS2 or GC with or without a deal?
-j
It would be big kudos to MS and the Xbox though if the Xbox was the only console to get it.I've always suspected the Xbox would be the only console to get it anyway. Maybe the GC could handle it, but I'd hate to see it on the PS2.
AFAIK Carmack has only discussed the Xbox version (which IIRC id is handling in-house) -- he didn't specifically preclude the possibility of PS2 or GC versions but he didn't act like they were a sure thing either.