Ninja Gaiden coming to PS3 as well?

[Bodhesatva]

Famine said:

Bodhesatva said:

And this wouldn't even be one of their more complex projects.

Games being published by first parties do not appear on competing systems in the generation in which they are developed. It's simply never happened.

While the actual wording of the contract may be complex, I'm sure the agreement is rather simple: we pay the money, you make the game for our system. The end. How and why would Microsoft allow for any other arrangement when they're shelling out millions of dollars?

There is always a loophole, and to be honest, it's not that the fact that the game is being published by Microsoft that leads me to believe that PS3 owners won't be seeing a sequel to Ninja Gaiden, rather what Itagaki's view on the PS3 is.

While not published by Nintendo, Capcom still found loopholes when they signed contracts with Nintendo, and there was nothing Nintendo could do.

And I think Ninja Gaiden will appear on the PS3... I completely forgot about Ninja Gaiden 2: The Dark Sword of Chaos. Maybe they'll tune it up for both 360 and PS3 like Capcom is doing with Bionic Commando.

It's more than just a legal thing, Famine, it's an ethical one, as well.

There are "good faith" partnerships in this industry, and this is clearly one of those. It would be like Tools of Destruction getting remade for the 360. Technically and legally possible? Probably, somehow, some way. But that would burn Insomniac's bridges with Sony so badly -- a clear and direct betrayal of mutual interests -- that it wouldn't be a good move. 

It just doesn't happen, or happens so rarely as to be a non-issue. I believe there may be one or two examples in history of first-party published games appearing on a competing console in the same generation.