Croteam explains why no Serious Sam for PS3

Couldn't secure additional financing to support the extra development time.

Speaking to G4TV, Croteam CEO Roman Ribaric has revealed why the upcoming remake of classic FPS Serious Sam isn't coming to PS3. Serious Sam HD will be released later this summer on Xbox LIVE Arcade and in the autumn for PC.

"[We] couldn't get additional financing to support [the] extra development time needed," said Ribaric. "It was either to do PSN by the same date or forget about it. There was also a thought to find another team to do it, but nobody was either willing (a.k.a. not enough time/money/interest) or realistically being able (or crazy enough) to do it in such short period."

Ribaric revealed that Croteam also discussed the idea of putting out a PS3 version of Serious Sam HD at a later date, but this had its own snags.

"We [have considered] doing PSN after we finish PC and XBLA," he said. "However, we keep hearing over and over from publishers, investors, marketing and other suits that players from one console, in this case PSN, wouldn't want to get it later, let's say eight months and seven days after, if it's released sooner on the other console, here that would be XBLA."

Ribaric also called on PS3 gamers for their opinion on bringing Serious Sam HD to PSN considerably later than the XBLA version. So would you still want it even if it came out in mid 2010?