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S.T.A.G.E. said:
forevercloud3000 said:


I don't think they did. Sony stated some time ago that they do not pay for exclusivity or exclusive content like MS does. People started to believe they must have gone back on their word due to a few games giving exclusive stuff but  I beg to differ. Sony could never win a bidding war with MS, hense the reason they want to stick to their guns and not attempt it. The second they start, it will become common place for all . I do think they are giving these devs some kind of incentive to give them special treatment. I did hear that Devs make more money on every PS3 game sold in comparison to NIN and MS, maybe that is it, plus the free advertising during trade shows. If that is "buying them off" than i guess they employ different but similar tactics. Yet they will never "loan" a company 20million just to get exclusive stuff, it just goes against there core company beliefs. This is possibly why they just don't get nearly as many deals as MS does for exclusive content.


Can I see the link to this? I know Sony said that one time that they werent paying for the exclusivity of certain Japanese titles, but I don't know about the west.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/sony-we-dont-buy-exclusivity

SCEA boss Jack Tretton has criticised what he described as the "different approach" of rival platform holders, stating that Sony won't "bribe" developers to make PS3 exclusives.

Speaking in the latest issue of PSM magazine Tretton said, "Microsoft is too dependent upon the third-party community, and Nintendo is too dependent upon first-party. We like to feel that we got a pretty good mix.

"We have a very different approach to exclusives than some of our competitors," he continued.

"We don't buy exclusivity. We don't fund development. We don't, for lack of a better term, bribe somebody to only do a game on our platform."

"We earn it by saying, 'You can build a better game on our platform. If you focus your development on our platform, you will ultimately be more successful. We can try to partner up with you from a technology standpoint. We can try to partner up with you from a marketing standpoint. But just economically and technologically, this is the system that makes the most sense for you.'"



      

      

      

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Not gonna lie that was sone pretty terrible PR from Tretton



i would say sony said to ubisoft "let's make a nice assassins creed 3 bundle + you will get nice e3 stage time at the sony stage and you make little bit more content for us then"



BenVTrigger said:
Not gonna lie that was sone pretty terrible PR from Tretton


Tretton is fundamentally correct though. The PS3 is best used when games are exclusive to it, this is should undisputed and proven by now. Sony has the best of both worlds even though they screwed up big time this gen with their launch price. They are live in harmony with first, second and third party. Nintendo was too dependent on first party and Microsoft has always been dependent on third party. Their third party became on par with Sonys third party hence part of the PS2 owners jumping ship to the 360. That only did one thing though, it made Sonys first party stronger.



Sorry, late here, and I'm not going to scroll through all of the pages, but, what's going on with this "embargo?"

And are 360 owners seriously whining about exclusive content, timed or not, for the PS3?

Welcome to our world, where Microsoft pays everyone for exclusivity and timed DLC.

Here's some advice if that's the case: GET OVER IT.



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DCOK said:
Sorry, late here, and I'm not going to scroll through all of the pages, but, what's going on with this "embargo?"

And are 360 owners seriously whining about exclusive content, timed or not, for the PS3?

Welcome to our world, where Microsoft pays everyone for exclusivity and timed DLC.

Here's some advice if that's the case: GET OVER IT.


30 minutes to go until the embargo is lifted.



pezus said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
I already have my AC copy.

How are the view distances?


Great, not much different from the last AC, but you can see much more because there are less large structures standing in your way. Its more house to house. The churches are the high points in the city, which so far isnt really that high, but nevertheless its cool. Feels quite deceptively similar to the last games even though noticable changes have been made. The graphics are better than Revelations and the models and animations are newer, desmond and the other characters look more real than last game for sure. Sword play is more fluid if you match your parries this time. You still have the old multi-kill  manouvers but theres so many ways to kill. I love taking peoples battle rifles and shooting, killing the next guy, dropping the deceaseds gun and continuing to fire. It takes a while to reload, like six seconds and those leave you wide open for getting shot, so I tend to just drop the gun and grab the next one that hasnt been fired off of a dead guy. 



forevercloud3000 said:
Proclus said:
I find it slightly odd how it seems to be totally ok for the PS3 versions to have several extra missions, and let us be honest, we all know why.

But when... that other company does it, its suddenly an outragous and filthy tactic...

Anyways, personally don't care about that, OT: Final meta: 90-92 I think.


Its ok for PS3 versions to come with more stuff because the PS3 has more disc capacity to fit more stuff on it, which Sony encourages devs to take advantage of, hence the reason they used BluRay in the first place. One of the most aggrevating things about this gen, when many PS3 owners heard that BR had such a large capacity to fit larger games, we expected to get just that. Instead we get games that get capped due to trying to meet requirements of the "lowest denomonator"  consoles.

MS actively works against the possibility of bigger games. They charge game devs more for using extra discs, and they also have contractual road blocks to stop devs from giving PS3 exclusive content. So yea, when devs actually take advantage of what is actually available to them it does make us gamers happy.

yeah sure that must be the reason why MS inreased the 360 disc size by over 1GB >.>

Basically your whole post is wrong. The majority of games have lots of free space left on the discs that are simply unused. DVD-9 is enough for 99% of all current gen games.

AC III's singleplayer disc is filled with 6.8GB worth of data. Still 1.15GB left which is easily enough to include the extra missions, which are combined one hour long.



Boutros said:
DCOK said:
Sorry, late here, and I'm not going to scroll through all of the pages, but, what's going on with this "embargo?"

And are 360 owners seriously whining about exclusive content, timed or not, for the PS3?

Welcome to our world, where Microsoft pays everyone for exclusivity and timed DLC.

Here's some advice if that's the case: GET OVER IT.


30 minutes to go until the embargo is lifted.

15 minutes left?



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Pavolink said:
Boutros said:
DCOK said:
Sorry, late here, and I'm not going to scroll through all of the pages, but, what's going on with this "embargo?"

And are 360 owners seriously whining about exclusive content, timed or not, for the PS3?

Welcome to our world, where Microsoft pays everyone for exclusivity and timed DLC.

Here's some advice if that's the case: GET OVER IT.


30 minutes to go until the embargo is lifted.

15 minutes left?

Now yes.