NCSoft promises to unveil PS3 game this year

by Andrew Yoon on Feb 13th 2008 10:30AM

Popular MMO publisher NCSoft has been relatively quiet since announcing their partnership with Sony at E3 last year. The deal secured console exclusivity for PS3, with four games supposedly in the pipeline. NCSoft's new president Chris Chung told Wired that the company should have "something to announce -- not only announce but to show -- by the second half of this year. I'm pretty psyched about that."

The game will be far more than just a simple port of an existing game. In fact, Chung thinks that an online game must be reimagined to really work on a console. "You have to create a gameplay that's really suitable for the console space, the console experience. I mean, it's very different from PC."

Supposedly, the Mountain View studio (team behind the successful City of Heroes/Villians series) is donned the title of "console specialist." We can't wait to find out more, but let's not forget ... NCSoft has done this song and dance before.

[Via Massively]

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Reader Comments (5)

That's a long way for the second half of the year. 4 more months? ;(

Maybe it'll pop in during Sony's little gamer event [if they have one this year]

I wouldn't mind seeing some sort of City of Heroes/Villains release for the PS3, those games always looked interesting to me but I've never been a big PC gamer.
NCSoft makes some great MMO titles, lets just hope they can get the feel for the PS3 and release some astounding MMOs for the PS3.

A new IP would make a lot of sense, but from my experience with NCSoft, Tabula Rasa and Guild Wars would be great for consoles. Limited UI's, simple targeting and control schemes ... sounds like a winner to me.