Epic’s Vice President Mark Rein spoke to GameInformer where he gave Sony some credit (as opposed to Valve, Ubisoft and Atari), joining the club of few developers who have praised the machine.

Rein said he didn’t see Sony being in trouble, and wanted people to “give them a break”.

People, just give them a break for crying out loud. People think it’s bad if they can’t ship enough, and then they think it’s bad if they can ship enough. It’s like, which is it? Either they can’t fulfill your order or they can, and they’re both good.

He added that since the PS3 is in stock most places, people should go and just buy some.

Go out and buy your PS3 now. You can get one. That’s miraculous. They sold more PS3s in North America than Microsoft sold Xbox 360s in its same period of time, and they clearly aren’t going to have the shortage problems that Microsoft had.

I wonder what makes him say that. Wait, didn’t Epic sell a bunch of Unreal Engine 3 licenses to Sony last year? Yeah, they did. Go figure.