Michael-5 said:
Well a lot of 3rd party exclusives never make their way over to the PS3. I think this whole timed exclusive thing was only big in the past, before PS3 built up sales. Bioshock, The Elder Scrolls, Lost Planet, all were probably only timed because PS3 was either unreleased, brand spanking new, or developers were just unsure about the success of it. A few timed exclusives are bought, GTA IV expansions, Star Ocean, Tom Clancy's HAWKS by a week, and um... thats all I can think of. Mass Effect 2 went multiplatform because of people writing letters and complaining that they want it on their PS3. Games like FFXIII were not assumed to be exclusive, they were announced as exclusives, but when Square Enix saw how popular the 360 was in Americas, they thought it may have benefited them sales-wise to make their game multi-platform. At first they thought sales in Japan would just be nothing, but now after it sold so well in Americas and EMEAA they are releasing it in Japan this fall on the 360. It makes no sence for 3rd party developers to make exclusives. Mechanically the 360 and PS3 are very similar, it's not hard making a multi-platform game, and saling a game on multiple consoles just make so much more sence financially. Gears of War and Mass Effect are 2 of my favorite exclusives this generation, and except for Mass Effect 2 which is getting a port in 6 months, these games are definatly great reasons why I got my 360. I was just saying PS3 owners are lucky that many 360 exclusives are only timed. It would have sucked if PS3 owners never got Bioshock. I just hope FFXIII Versus is multiplatform, I see no reason why SE would just ignore the huge 360 RPG market. |
Eternal sonata, splinter cell conviction oh wait that one hasn't been announced for ps3 yet, anyways there are a few more, but yeah some never made it for various reason (dead rising and saints row being the obvious ones, both with sequels coming to the ps3)
Mass Effect 2 was multiplat the second EA bought bioware in my mind anyways, thats what it was about
FFXIII was announced but games like resident evil and devil may cry were assumed
actually they are very different, the most different of any generation, the actual hardware of the ps3 is the cell which is great from a processing stand point but since the tech was never used for the application it took a bit to get the dev tools to a comparable level to 360s (whos tech has been around and been being refined since ps1) and multiplat tools are even worse and then theres blu ray, so ps3 can hold alot more on one disk, and multiple disks are a pain for devs,
yes but if both gears and mass effect (whole series for both) ended up on ps3 you would feel very cheated I think
I don't think FFXIII versus will be multiplat, it's not so much a administrative decision as it is how much of the ps3 power they tapped into in the gameplay, FFXIII was a turn based rpg (more or less) gameplay wasn't that taxing so they just had to lower the graphics for it all and throw it on 3 disk, and if they took advantage of the sixaxis at all that presents an entire new problem, so yeah depends how the devs made it, I'm good at spoting timed exclusives and I doubt versus is going to be timed/multiplat, though you will probably be getting FFXIV as long as MS lets them (MMO problems, they intended for it to be both, but with the live subscription and MS polices or whatever there has been issues)
