It may be 10 month away, but the Evo people decided to put this trailer out anyway:

Most notable is the announcement that they will be transitioning from PS3 to Xbox360 as the lead platform. This is a change that a number of top players have been clamoring for due to the generally more consistent performance of games like UMvC3 and SFxT on 360. Fortunately, this will not preclude games without a 360 port from being considered for the tournament. Dave Lang can rest easy.

Dave Lang never rests easy.

The Lang Zone is a dangerous place to be in at all times

YAY NO MORE PS3 LAG

Unfortunately they'll all be launch-model units on the verge of the RROD.

Oh that's good to hear.

ChrisG is gonna have to make up some new excuses.

360?

be prepared for a 3 day Killer instict session with the final playing as finish XD

My guess is that only Capcom games will be on 360 and everything else will be on PS3.

Also I think this will be the first EVO/fighting game tourney I will go to.

@jjor64: Yeah, I know that PS3 is the preferred platform for most 3D fighters and anime fighters. It would be interesting if they still pushed everything multiplat onto 360 because that's what they'll have hooked up, only to have a different group of players start bitching about the platform.

Also I am jelly, I wish I could go.

But there's no DiveKick for 360.

Hurray for getting the hype train rolling early, it's a good start.

Read the post and not just the thread title.

With the new consoles coming out soon, i wouldn't be surprised if MS decides to either give or sell a bunch of 360s to Evo for cheap to make this happen.

It was a joke, jeez.

@mrcraggle: If you say so, I couldn't tell.

What does this mean? I'm surprised that a competition has "lead platforms" for the entire event where it should be handled on a game by game, case by case basis.

Seems reasonable , digital foundry can vouch for 360 performance advantage. Im guessing even the dropping of a few frames can frustrate those guys.

Capcom games have been notorious for running poorly on PS3, it became one of the key talking points this year regarding how tournaments are run.

Yet. There's no Divekick for 360 YET.

That I don't doubt but the issue seems to be that Evo, as an organization, lacks some fundamental organization (pun!). They need to have some "committee" that is constantly reviewing the game and how it performs and recommending that to the "directors" instead of just saying "We are going to go 360 first" and finding out later there is a problem on one game on the 360 or something nice on on another platform for another.

Evo is not an organisation in any shape or form, it's 3 guys with full time jobs organising and running a tournament event in their spare time. What you're describing is simply not possible.

The lead console couldn't matter less to me, but what does matter is another EVO. I always assumed it was happening, but confirmation is definitely nice.

Honestly it really doesn't matter that much to me. As long as they put on a good show (as usual) then everything is fine.

Although it would be really interesting if something did die during a match lol.

Also why does the Cannon bros. and Mr Wizard have to research? The communities in SRK, Dustloop, Tekken Zaibatsu, Free Step Dodge and many others can take care of the ground work.