Those looking to the PlayStation 3 for the online gaming may have a bit of a surprise at launch if a review of Tony Hawk's project 8 is any indication. According to one put up recently by IGN only the XBox 360 version will be playable online.

So what's the deal? This portion of the review fills in some answers:

"Speaking of online play, Tony Hawk's Project 8 is built with full online capabilities for Xbox 360, including support of Live, classic two-player challenges, a new game called Walls (which plays like Snake or Tron), and up to eight-player online games. But Project 8 is not online for PlayStation 3. Not online for PS3. Only within the last three weeks has Neversoft received its PS3 beta kits...Neversoft is confident the PS3 version of the game will ship at launch in November, but it still hasn't received all of the software libraries and has no indication of how the online components will work on PS3, so it's not offering them. For a software company that's always supported the PlayStation system and was, in fact, the first developer to offer online play on PS2 with Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3, that's saying something. Neversoft wouldn't explain any further, but it's clear to this reporter that if Neversoft could go online with the PS3 version, it would."

From the sound of this the possibility of a shortage of test kits (reported earlier) may have been real. Makes one wonder about the other games coming up.