Turbine's new MMO on console

[Soln]

via Massively blerg

[Tannhauser]

I'd love a console MMO.  I played WAR with my 360 controller thanks to Switchblade but it got annoying after a while.  Consoles have successful strategy games like Civ and RTS like Halo Wars, both of which I enjoy.  MMO's are the last frontier. 

[Severian]

I'm not sure why this thread is under LotRO in the graveyard, since this new MMO will be a different IP on a different platform, but to continue on...

"The company is overall hopeful that the friendly atmosphere of console gaming will lower a lot of barriers that might have otherwise kept players away from the MMO genre.
There's a certain amount of risk in this, he admits, but Turbine is essentially staking the future of the company on this assumption."

- VP Craig Alexander at GDC Austin
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=25349

[Stormwaltz]

I'm not sure why this thread is under LotRO in the graveyard, since this new MMO will be a different IP on a different platform

Soln must know something we don't. 

[Mrbloodworth]

I'm not sure why this thread is under LotRO in the graveyard, since this new MMO will be a different IP on a different platform

Soln must know something we don't. 

It was confirmed in most of the articles that they will not be porting existing IP's (check out the presentation slides). Word on the street is, its harry potter.

[Aez]

Harry Potter is the perfect franchise for a MMO.  It's much better that Lord of the rings or Star Wars.  Hell, Harry follows a DIKU progression in the book.

[Soln]

move this, no real reason it was here other than LotRO/Turbine