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[DrDogg]

GD: Has any thought been given to porting the series over to console? Perhaps the Xbox 360?

GS: We've thought about it a lot, but we aren't actually doing it. Yet. So far, RTS games have not fared well when ported to a console. We think there are solutions to making an RTS on a console, but they might involve such dramatic changes to the RTS genre that the end result wouldn't feel like an Age of Empires game anymore. It would be something else completely.

GD: What's next for the development team once Age of Empires III has been completed?

GS: We're going to Disneyworld (well, I am anyway). We all are going to take a long break, and then get hard to work on our next great game (and there's a good chance it might not even be an RTS). We will support AOEIII after it ships, however. This is a game with a lot of content and a persistent element, and that means spending time to solve balance issues (as well as other bugs) as they arise. We are dedicating a post-ship team to support AOEIII with balance fixes and new content, which is something we've never done before.

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Isn't Age of Kings coming to DS or something? I know it's not a console and it has a pointer that can be used like a mouse, but I would think they could come up with something to make this work on the Xbox 360.

 

[Dynamite Shikoku]

Screw them. I want a 360 version.

 

[Spruce Moose]

Smoke some more crack. These kind of games do not belong on consoles. Look what happend when they brought Starcraft over. It just dosen't work.

Unless you have kb/mouse of course.

 

[Kon Tiki]

Screw them. I want a 360 version.

Why?

 

[Bluecondor]

Aw man - I wish they would make a 360 or PS3 version of Rise of Nations. If you took Thrones and Patriots, spruced it up with some next gen graphics, and put it on a next gen system with a big hard drive for some serious user customizability - that game would trun a lot of heads....

 

[SatelliteOfLove]

Smoke some more crack. These kind of games do not belong on consoles. Look what happend when they brought Starcraft over. It just dosen't work.

Unless you have kb/mouse of course.

That would depend on USB keyboard & mouse games becoming more popular next gen, really; quite possible.

 

[BorkBork]

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Isn't Age of Kings coming to DS or something? I know it's not a console and it has a pointer that can be used like a mouse, but I would think they could come up with something to make this work on the Xbox 360.

They're making a turn-based Age of Empire game on the DS instead of a RTS.
http://http://www.cube-europe.com/news.php?nid=8149

 

[Dynamite Shikoku]

Why?

cause I don't have a good computer

 

[Kon Tiki]

cause I don't have a good computer

Well I know that, you already mentioned your poor man's computer (x360).

 

[Dynamite Shikoku]

:lol

 

[Borys]

This game will show some ungodly graphics when it comes out.

And physics.

Mmmmm, physics.

Musketeers ragdolling filthy tribal indians down the mountain. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

 

[blackadde]

AOEIII is fast paced, probably more so than our previous games, and there is a lot going on at any given second.

Definately not a fan of the series but it's sounding good. Might give it a try.

 

[Dave Long]

They're making a turn-based Age of Empire game on the DS instead of a RTS.
http://http://www.cube-europe.com/news.php?nid=8149

Actually, "they" in this case is not Ensemble. They have nothing to do with it. The Age of Empires game for DS is coming from Digital Eclipse I think.

 

[DrDogg]

They're making a turn-based Age of Empire game on the DS instead of a RTS.
http://http://www.cube-europe.com/news.php?nid=8149

So they can do the same thing for a console version of AOEIII then.