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"We're watching Lord of the Rings [Battle for Middle-earth II] going to 360 very closely," Moravek told the site, referencing the recent console port of another fantasy RTS game. "Because if it's successful, I think there's a good chance we could bring Company of Heroes and even Dawn of War over."

I can't find the original Gamespot article, but the forum post where I saw this is boardsus.playstation.com/playstation/board/message

 

Better hope so, GW could use a quick influx of cash to sucker ^H^H^H^H^H^H convince stockholders they actually have some R&D going on.

--Chris
www.chrisvalera.com

That'd be sweet. Relic has already published a couple of 360 titles. They've got their feet wet.

We call my PC the Dinosaur.  It 's so old it might as well have a crank start.  I'd love to play Dawn of War, and I might just buy my friends copies of Battle for Middle-Earth II, birthdays and Xmas and Kwaanzaa, just to get the sales up and help me play as the Blood Ravens.

Eugh. DoW I enjoyed, but porting it to a console... call me a cynic, but I just don't think RTS's work on consoles, and I don't really see how you can get around the fact that an analogue stick is not as fast or accurate as a mouse, or that face and trigger buttons just don't match up to hot keys.

I believe this was tried previously with Command and Conquer, and failed miserably. It's possible Relic might get a RTS to work on the 360, but I'm not going to hold my breath.

EA has done it.  LoTR: BFMEII plays VERY nicely on the 360.  We've got a group that plays fairly often on Live. 

hahahah, that was classic.

The Wii has some potential with a RTS using that pointer remote.

I hadn't thought of the Wiimote... hmm... you could be right Kikko.

The PS3 has USB ports so it can take a mouse and keyboard.

Of course so does the PS2, and they got soooo much use from them.

I saw video of Battalion Wars 2 on the Wii and they used the Wiimote(sigh) to point at units for selection and then use the analog controll to maneuver them.  Looked interesting.