badgenome said: Feylic said: Squilliam said: I guess both Micro$oft and $ony are evil money hatting corporations.   Sony is paying money to distribute the game on their systems.. How is that similar to throwing money at a company so that they only release it on one platform? Because they are throwing money at a company so that they only release it on Sony's platforms.

Read the article again please. They are publishing the game on their platforms. Without a publisher, the game wouldn't get sent out at all. Where as MS didn't distrubute Star Ocean 4, or the GTA4 DLC, they just paid to have it come out on their system only.

MS paid SONY to do it.

Feylic said: badgenome said: Feylic said: Squilliam said: I guess both Micro$oft and $ony are evil money hatting corporations.   Sony is paying money to distribute the game on their systems.. How is that similar to throwing money at a company so that they only release it on one platform? Because they are throwing money at a company so that they only release it on Sony's platforms. Read the article again please. They are distributing the game on their platforms. Without a distributor, the game wouldn't get sent out at all. Where as MS didn't distrubute Star Ocean 4, or the GTA4 DLC, they just paid to have it come out on their system only.

Atari must have the capability to publish their own games in Europe, since they do so for Namco. Also, the non-Sony versions are still planned for a PAL release by Atari, so I think it's pretty obvious that $ony bought themselves a timed exclusivity deal.

And Microsoft certainly did distribute The Lost & Damned, since it was DLC.

Feylic said: badgenome said: Feylic said: Squilliam said: I guess both Micro$oft and $ony are evil money hatting corporations.   Sony is paying money to distribute the game on their systems.. How is that similar to throwing money at a company so that they only release it on one platform? Because they are throwing money at a company so that they only release it on Sony's platforms. Read the article again please. They are publishing the game on their platforms. Without a publisher, the game wouldn't get sent out at all. Where as MS didn't distrubute Star Ocean 4, or the GTA4 DLC, they just paid to have it come out on their system only.

Atari would of published it themselves.

Sony decided to offer them a quick buck when the price was cheap for timed exclusivity since the anticiaption for the game is much higher then they expected.

Feylic said: badgenome said: Feylic said: Squilliam said: I guess both Micro$oft and $ony are evil money hatting corporations. Sony is paying money to distribute the game on their systems.. How is that similar to throwing money at a company so that they only release it on one platform? Because they are throwing money at a company so that they only release it on Sony's platforms. Read the article again please. They are publishing the game on their platforms. Without a publisher, the game wouldn't get sent out at all. Where as MS didn't distrubute Star Ocean 4, or the GTA4 DLC, they just paid to have it come out on their system only.

With this deal Sony has forced the delay of the Wii, 360, PC, and DS versions of the game, for several months in Europe.

A timed exclusive isn't a console exclusive when it will be releasing on the others shortly after lol,

And I would understand if this game was a "heavy hitter" but it won't be, it won't sell systems and it'll only mainly sell to ghostbuster fans, if this is the timed exclusives sony are getting i'm VERY glad I no longer buy games for my PS3 lol.

Huh, out of all the games to make timed exclusive, let alone in one territory.

I wish Sony would use their funds to secure one of their of their former exclusives back.

Don't worry, dear PAL Wii60 Ghostbusters fans, you can always import the US version!

oh wait...

Wii has discs that allow imports to work/homebrew channel also does that.  But standard I guess you're right :P 

But I can't wait to bust some ghosts on the PC and Wii next month! (sorry PAL guys :( )

why sorry, i had to wait a year to play bioshock 4 or 5 months wont hurt a soul and no doubt by that time little extras will be attached.