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ckmlb said:
Biggerboat said:
ckmlb said:

So much for the claims of Japanese support for PS3 weakening.


Because one game that we know next to nothing about can disprove a theory about an overall developer trend. Riiiiiiight.

Suppose the fact that Capcom put out quite a few exclusives on GC made it the darling of all third party developers?


In the last 24 hours, Nippon Ichi, Sega and Namco have all 3 announced new games for the PS3. That doesn't say much?

...it's the Playstation Premiere. That's the entire point of the show. To announce and demonstrate NEW games for PLAYSTATION platforms.

That's like walking into E3 and saying "nuu g4mes lol"



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ckmlb said:
outlawauron said:
Looks like a cool game. Why did this turn into a spin off thread??

Because every thread with good news for the PS3 must be derailed.


 


Ck, just stop. I have NO interest in derailling good news for the PS3. The problem is that you had to add flamebait to the end of it.

It's as if I were to say this:

"Wow, here's a new game for the Wii! Looks like the Wii is going to absolutely dominate the competition this generation."

And then I get insulted when 360/PS3 fans complain. It's just good news for the Wii! What's so bad about that????? God you people are so biased!

I have no issue with this game being announced. It's good news for the PS3, and I'm happy for PS3 owners. If you had simply stopped right there, there would be no problem at all with your post. Instead, you have to insist on saying something that's not only untrue (as my above links show), but deliberately inflammatory. Stop acting like a martyr, you brought this on yourself.



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Who cares what games the PS3 gets >_> any "good" title is going multiplatform and as long as their sales continue to be low it's not going to become legendary status as far as #'s go. I work at game crazy and we seriously have not sold a single console even with the price drop announced. Say what you will about amazon but that's just me telling my side. My store is also the 2nd highest store in my district as far as revenue and customer volume go. I'm not bashing the ps3 or anything, because as far as power goes it really is an amazing console. The way sony has marketed it and the games out for it right now don't really justify a purchase at the moment. Now when Metal Gear comes out and a new game from team Ico.... then maybe :P



Wii60 owns and that's all anyone needs

i can't understand all the drama about Katamari not being a PS3 game anymore. did anyone bother to play the ones for ps2? i doubt more than 90 % of the people on this site played them . katamari games are fun for a while, but nothing special. 39.99 price tag, not for me



Ari_Gold said:
i can't understand all the drama about Katamari not being a PS3 game anymore. did anyone bother to play the ones for ps2? i doubt more than 90 % of the people on this site played them . katamari games are fun for a while, but nothing special. 39.99 price tag, not for me

 I played both for ps2 and yeah they are fun. The problem with a third one though is it's nothing new.. looks just like the same old garbage rehashed. I loved the first two, but I won't even pick up the 3rd one cause well... there's nothing there that's exciting lol.



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Ari_Gold said:
i can't understand all the drama about Katamari not being a PS3 game anymore. did anyone bother to play the ones for ps2? i doubt more than 90 % of the people on this site played them . katamari games are fun for a while, but nothing special. 39.99 price tag, not for me

Well good, it's a $29.99 price tag on the Wii, with 4 player online play in this one.



Oh hey, here's another article dated today, July 17:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/17/technology/17game.html?ex=1342411200&en=99b52847b0e08ffd&ei=5124&partner=digg&exprod=digg

Some key quotations:

Inspired by the early success of the Wii, the companies that create and distribute games are beginning to shift resources and personnel toward building more Wii games, in some cases at the expense of the competing systems: the PlayStation 3 from Sony and Xbox 360 from Microsoft.

The shift is closely watched because consumers tend to favor systems that have many compelling games. More resources diverted to the Wii would mean more games, and that would translate into more consumers buying Wii consoles later.

Jon Goldman, chairman and chief executive of Foundation 9 Entertainment, an independent game development company, said that he was hearing a growing call for Wii games from the publishers and distributors that finance the games that his firm creates. “Publishers are saying: Instead of spending $15 million or $20 million on one PS3 game, come back to me with five or six Wii pitches,” he said.

“We had one meeting two weeks ago with a publisher that was asking for Wii games,” said Mr. Goldman, who declined to identify the video game publisher that he met. “Three or four months ago, they didn’t want to hear Word 1 about the Wii.”



Also:

Because of its simpler graphics, development times for Wii games are also shorter. A Wii game can be created in as little as 12 months, said Kelly Flock, executive vice president for worldwide publishing at THQ, a video game developer based in Agoura Hills, Calif. Games for the two competing consoles typically take two to three years.

He said that the budget for a Wii game ranges from $1.5 million to $4 million, compared with the $10 million to $12 million the company spends on a PS3 or Xbox 360 game.

“The Wii is a godsend,” Mr. Flock said. “We are aggressively looking for more Wii titles.”

There are other important quotations, but I think the point is clear. I don't know how many articles like this we need to see before people stop insisting this isn't true. No one -- not me, and not this article -- is saying that PS3/360 development is simply going to cease to exist. There will stlil be games for those platforms, just as there is still development for the PC, despite the fact that it has been marginalized for years. What we are saying is that PS3/360 support has been weakened, and Wii support has been strengthened. Pointing out individual titles that are announced for the 360/PS3 as proof that support isn't weakening is like pointing out a baby in Japan and saying that it's proof that the Japanese population isn't declining (it is).

 

 



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