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Dallinor said:
Why alienate a section of the market by releasing only on the 360/720 for the first game? Hasn't seemed to have worked out too well with other IP's this gen.


Saints Row, Dead Rising, Bioshock, Mass Effect, Call of Duty 2, Lost Planet, Ghost Recon Advance Warfighter



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superchunk said:
Fake.
This is obviously a fake document.


Whatever helps you sleep at night.

superchunk said:
Fake.

There is no way a real contract would refer to MS's next console as '720' when its not called that. If anything it would be using the code name durango or literally "360 successor".

This is obviously a fake document.


The documents are completely real.

Go read them yourself on the link I provided. You won't undersand 75% of the legal speak, so that alone is proof enough these are real.

The only way these could be fake, was if some lawyer with knowleged of the video game industry got bored and decided to troll the internet.(highly unlikely IMO)



d21lewis said:
Dallinor said:
Why alienate a section of the market by releasing only on the 360/720 for the first game? Hasn't seemed to have worked out too well with other IP's this gen.


Saints Row, Dead Rising, Bioshock, Mass Effect, Call of Duty 2, Lost Planet, Ghost Recon Advance Warfighter

All could have sold more with a multiplatform release. Which is why they all became multiplatform. 



d21lewis said:
Dallinor said:
Why alienate a section of the market by releasing only on the 360/720 for the first game? Hasn't seemed to have worked out too well with other IP's this gen.


Saints Row, Dead Rising, Bioshock, Mass Effect, Call of Duty 2, Lost Planet, Ghost Recon Advance Warfighter


The only real success there is Call of Duty. But COD 2 came out as a 360 launch title while PS3 didn't exist yet. 
Mass Effect sells so much less on PS3 though. It's clear that the 360-exclusive ME1, and late ME2 port damaged the sales of ME3 on PS3.

If all 3 ME games were to be released on PS3 and 360 simultaneously the franchise as a whole would have been much more successful than it is now.



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No PC version, no Wii U version and timed Playstation exclusivity.

Neat. 

Oh and "Bungie gets another $2.5 million if the first Destiny game achieves a score of 90 or better out of 100 on GameRankings.com, a site that summarizes reviews by game critics."

 

Well I guess reviewers can expect some pretty fancy 'press kits' and 'pre-release events' for this game, right? smh

 

From Gaf. Hilarious. 



Jay520 said:
superchunk said:
Fake.
This is obviously a fake document.


Whatever helps you sleep at night.


lol, this proves nothing Jay! I'm waiting for E3. :)



superchunk said:
Fake.

There is no way a real contract would refer to MS's next console as '720' when its not called that. If anything it would be using the code name durango or literally "360 successor".

This is obviously a fake document.


....... that's a good point!



VGKing said:
d21lewis said:
Dallinor said:
Why alienate a section of the market by releasing only on the 360/720 for the first game? Hasn't seemed to have worked out too well with other IP's this gen.


Saints Row, Dead Rising, Bioshock, Mass Effect, Call of Duty 2, Lost Planet, Ghost Recon Advance Warfighter


The only real success there is Call of Duty. But COD 2 came out as a 360 launch title while PS3 didn't exist yet. 
Mass Effect sells so much less on PS3 though. It's clear that the 360-exclusive ME1, and late ME2 port damaged the sales of ME3 on PS3.

If all 3 ME games were to be released on PS3 and 360 simultaneously the franchise as a whole would have been much more successful than it is now.

A game doesn't need to sell 5mil+ copies to be a success. Elder scrolls has sold amazingly well on the ps3 despite IV coming a year late. For a somewhat niche shooter, bioshock 2 360 to ps3 ratio is perfectly fine when you consider borderlands, bulletstorm, brink, etc. all had better 360 to ps3 ratios despite being released simontaniously on the ps3. Playstation owners only gobble up "realistic" modern war multiplatform fps at a better ratio than bioshock 2.

Dead Rising 2 is selling just as well on the ps3 as the 360, and lost planet 2 actually outsold the 360 version. Mass Effect 3 is selling very well on the ps3, its already up to 750k in the first 10 weeks. Yes it's much bigger on the 360, but futuristic scifi games almost always do better on the 360 because Americans buy far more scifi games than europeans, just compare even ps3 sales of dead space, bioshock, fallout, mass effect, borderlands, etc. North America sales are much much higher than Europe despite Europe having a higher install base.

Anyway I'm assuming the game is not getting released on the ps3 at launch because bungie has never devloped a ps3 game before, and would have probably needed more time than activision was willing to give them, hence release it early on the 360, and if consumers seem interested, port it to the ps3 and start releasing the rest of the series simontaniously. 



interesting how people always complain about timed exclusives for a console they don't own but if sony or microsoft buy the whole developer to release all games in the future only for one console and with that, some will never play the games, yeah, this is super great for most. no clue but for me it's better to play the game later than never^^  if sony would have bought bungie i don't believe the people who only own a ps3 would complain about that, but if someone only gives money to get the release earlier, that's soo bad...

i mean, for people who get the game later, it's better than never and people who say it's better to buy the developer, if microsoft/sony would buy the developer, the developer wouldn't release more games and with that money they can put more money in the development so the money isn't lost.