Exclusive: Epic's Mark Rein: Move, Kinect User Base Not Clear Til June 2011

Hardcore games for Kinect? Not from Epic in the near future is Epic's Mark Rein's circumspection about Microsoft - and Sony's Move - controller is anything to go by. We spoke to Mark in an extensive interview recently, here's just one of the things he had to say about the new systems:

We asked Mark, "You said back in March that it was too early to say whether Bulletstorm or Gears 3 will incorporate Move or Kinect. Is it still too early to say?"

Mark told us, "I'm not really even the right person to say it, because I'm not the designer of either of those games, but I don't think those games incorporating those technologies. I don't know if they'll change that or not, but I think those continue to be core controller experience games.

And both of them are coming out very early in the life cycle of Move and Kinect, so I don't think by February and April of 2011 we're going to have a clear picture of the install base and who the customers are that have Move and Kinect yet. I think we're going to need a couple more months after that. And those games, to meet those dates, have to be finished well before then."

Check back for the massive, full interview on SPOnG later today.