Danielsan said:
Unreal engine 3 is easily one of the worst things to come along this gen.
Not really. Most of this gens clusterfucks come down to mismanagement and lack of a proper marketvision, even when the new state of the market is staring everyone in the face. /blaming-mode.
Practical version:
It's not like managers, devs, publishers or even GAF / elitists gamers really generally believed in 2003/ 2004 "HD is sooo going to bomb" (especially with H-L 2 or PC-gaming in general pushing forth the technological boundries), yet that would have been the time when choices had to be made for future technological investments, human resources, and so on.
Nobody predicted the Wii's success or the three (four-ish with PC added) hardware strategies and their results on the market when such an accurate prediction was needed.
UE3 as a symbol of "have the tech, but not being able to use it" was just on of the many traps that almost everyone basically had to walk into at some point.
(I guess, anyway)