Current-gen R6 Vegas craps out

What happens in Vegas, stays on next-gen consoles. Such will be the case when Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 hits The Strip later this year.

Ubisoft had originally planned to release the game on "next-generation and current-generation consoles," like it did with another Clancy game, Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter. However, details on the game sent out in April simply stated that the game would be headed to "next-generation consoles." More recently, the company's E3 lineup listed only Xbox 360 and PS3 versions of the game.

When contacted about the absence of the current-gen versions of the game, a Ubisoft rep told GameSpot, "All development has been shifted to next-gen platforms."

No reason was given for the lack of current-gen editions, but one doesn't need to look too far for a possible explanation. While the Xbox 360 version of GRAW did exceptionally well in retail, the Xbox and PlayStation 2 versions combined for just a fraction of the 360 version's sales.