The new Street Fighter 3 Beta is out - and available to anyone who buys Capcom’s Wolf of the Battlefield: Commando 3 on Xbox Live Arcade . Capcom have explained that creating a beta for both the Xbox and the PS3 would be too costly for them, and thus opted for the Xbox as it’s cheaper to test and distribute than on the PS3.

Says Christian Svennson, VP of strategic planning and business development: “In my ideal world of worlds, we would have done a beta on each,” but given Capcom’s “constrained” resources, the time, effort, and expense of doing it for both platforms “probably would have pushed the project back another few months on our side.”

“When you show me someone running a cross platform beta…I’ll be impressed, because that’s a hell of an investment.” So there you have it, it’s basically cost-related. No worries though - “There is code parity across the two and any issues found in 360 will be fixed in PS3.” so at least PS3-ers won’t be playing a bug-ridden game!

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The new Street Fighter 3 Beta is out - and available to anyone who buys Capcom’s Wolf of the Battlefield: Commando 3 on Xbox Live Arcade .?Capcom have explained that creating a beta for both the Xbox and the PS3 would be too costly for them, and thus opted for the Xbox as it’s cheaper to test and distribute than on the PS3.

Says Christian Svennson, VP of strategic planning and business development: “In my ideal world of worlds, we would have done a beta on each,” but given Capcom’s “constrained” resources, the time, effort, and expense of doing it for both platforms “probably would have pushed the project back another few months on our side.”

“When you show me someone running a cross platform beta…I’ll be impressed, because that’s a hell of an investment.” So there you have it, it’s basically cost-related. No worries though - “There is code parity across the two and any issues found in 360 will be fixed in PS3.” so at least PS3-ers won’t be playing a bug-ridden game!

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