"Am I disappointed by it? Yes," Tretton told us, adding: "Am I surprised by it? No." He was quick to stress that the game remains a PS3 exclusive in Japan, but that "seeing as there isn't that big of a [PS3] installed base in [there], I don't know how big of a coup that is for us."
Speaking to the concept of paying third parties for exclusives, Tretton said that Sony has "invested so much money in the [PS3] hardware" that it simply "can't write checks for exclusive software."
Echoing statements made by Sony Worlwide Studios head Shuhei Yoshida prior to E3, Tretton said that Sony's is more focused on exclusive titles from its own teams. "You've got to create platform-defining franchises that you own," he said. "It's the only way you're going to guarantee exclusivity going forward."
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sony still loses
First, it's not the only good reason to own a PS3. There are plenty of other great games, and I could play listwars with you, but instead, I'll just say that all the consoles have very good games. Now if you are too young or too poor to afford more than one of them, that's your business, but to say another system is crap because you don't have it is just biased and stupid.
What are you talking about? Everybody knows that the only exclusive SYSTEM SELLERS are Final Fantasy and Metal Gear Solid, and the former somehow failed to light the world on fire.
2. Home
3. Little Big Planet
4. MLB the Show (yeah, I said it)
5. Blu-ray
6. Warhawk
7. Free PSN
8. Upgradable HDD (that is not proprietary)
9. Free wireless
10. >99% failure free
you mean the latter....
if you are going to attempt to be funny and a smart... you know what the least you could do is be intelligent enough to do it ;)
Hahahahahhahaa!
Because they obviously cant seem to find ONE.
now vote me down because you're butthurt
Even the sony fans agree. You can still hear their cries
"just wait until..." insert announced exclusive here
- It uses the Unreal Engine. That'll speed things up nicely.
"it's gonna come on 1xBD, not a 7 disc box set."
- Because audio/video compression technologies don't exist? OK.
"It's also gonna be available 6 months earlier. SquareEnix clearly stated the order of work: Finish PS3 Japan version, do PS3 Euro/US translations, do 360 work. (of course Microsoft pretended that it's going to be an "day one" release, just so people scatched their heads and assumed that meant simultanious PS3/360 release.)"
- And yet... PS3 fans are so happy about getting games like Bioshock after similar, sometimes longer, delays.
Personally, I play video games, not barely interactive extended cutscenes like this and Metal Gear Solid 4, so the news doesn't affect me.
I do, however, find the defensiveness very amusing.
Lets be accurate. PS3 and 360 versions will release on the same day in the US.
Unless you want to learn Japanese, those 6 months of Japanese exclusivity are pretty much meaningless, as Jack said.
FFXIII and versus both use the Crystal Tools engine, not Unreal 3.
I like my PS3 as much as the next guy (I wuv joo Blu-Ray) but even I know that the loss of exclusivity is HUGE as a ton of FF fanboys were waiting on buying a PS3 just for FF, just like a ton of people were waiting on buying one for Metal Gear Solid 4. Now there is very little reason to pick up a PS3 instead of an Xbox 360, if you are a J-RPG fanboy. If I didn't own one, I'd still pick one up just for Little Big Planet, but even so, this will probably damage PS3 sales in the short term.
Oh and the SDF was completely butthurt after this announcement. Don't try to hide it kids, I'd feel the same if...say...Gears of War 2 went multiplatform (and I didn't own both consoles).
Unreal Engine?
I could've sworn it was being developed on the White Engine...and that the Unreal Engine license Square Enix got was for other not-yet-announced titles?
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This is a long, long way from, "I'll pay you $1,200 if you can find a PS3 on store shelves." Good job.
I agree. His comments are suprisingly honest and straight forward.
You know, now that I think about it I've noticed a bit of a flip-flop for this generation of games. Last gen, Sony was the behemoth gathering all of these great exclusives and Microsoft was the one playing to the people and were honest and genuine in their thoughts. But recently MS has gotten fairly conceited and is more disconnected from their customers than ever (good examples are the Avatars and the new Dashboard). But Sony is doing a much better job with the community this time around with the introduction of the PlayStation.Blog with frequent updates and conversations with their customers.
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Oh and Sony? Pwned.
very american of them
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At that point, no amount of money Sony threw at them could keep it exclusive. I'd wager the same thing is going on here. Why would Square NOT release a game as big as FF on the 360, when they can make so much more money from it this way?
Blaming MS for this is just ludicrous. Sony have always been far worse for paying companies like this to release games exclusively for their system.
If they don't have the cash to hang with the big swinging dicks (microsoft bought said dicks) then they should have gone into casual competition with the Wii.
Nintendo made the right move. They're laughing while MS buys out the hardcore market and sony executives whine. (refer to the above article for teh whines)
Just because you're a fanboy doesn't mean you have any idea what you're talking about. According the the Forbes Global 2000 business index (which you can access at forbes.com... and I would recommend you do in the future before you pretend you know anything about financials again) MS' market value is $253 billion with $16.96 billion profit, vs Sony's market value of $48 billion and $1.08 billion in profits... care to try again?
http://knowyournetworth.com/sony_net_worth.html
http://knowyournetworth.com/microsoft_net_worth.html
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I do want a blu-ray player tho...I feel another price cut coming for the PS3 this Xmas!
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CRY SOME MORE!
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