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And of course they had to re-think everything else too, since their target auidence has dramatically changed. Obviously, the the controls had to be drastically cut back to fit on the controller, so that greatly limited what the new game could do in terms of gameplay.
Space games being the only thing they were good at, they started developing a space game for the Xbox. Obviously a game like Reunion was impossible to port over to consoles, so they had to come up with something else. Either way, Egosoft was a PC-only dev team specialized in space sims, they knew nothing about console development or what a console game must be like. Maybe Egosoft was forced into this by the publisher, I don't know. Now, I don't know if it was the idea of the publisher, Deep Silver, or Egosoft itself, but quite understandably, they wanted a piece of that nice console pie, thus the development of TNBT ("The Next Big Thing", as it was called before it received the Rebirth name) started. The prospects for the studio were dire at best.
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Face it, the space sim genre was dead, and with the advent of the new console generation, PC gaming was in decline too. After Reunion's pretty rocky launch plagued by heaps of bugs, problems and lackluster reviews, I think the Ego guys had to sit down and think about the future.
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What else happened in 2005? Oh yes, the start of the new console generation with the release of the Xbox 360 followed by PS3 a year later in 2006. Was it a commercial success? Not really, as around 2005 was the time space simulators as a genre went down the drain for good. What else happened around that time? That's right, the release of X3:Reunion, the next major installment of the X franchise. We all know, that Rebirth was in development for 7 years, that means it started around 2005-2006. (These are just my theories, not facts, so take them as such!)
There is a reason why Rebirth plays and feels like a failed console port, because it is! I know this is old news for some, but many people still don't know this, so bear with me here.
Namely, Rebirth was never meant to be a PC game. I've done some research, and what I found was pretty sad, but it explains the vast majority of problems and questions. After so many threads, so many hours played in frustration and so many unanswered questions, I think the puzzle is slowly getting pieced together.
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