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badgenome on 11 March 2009
Skittles said:
badgenome said:
Zlejedi said:
Hmm that's a weird choice of platforms. I'd expect full x360/ps3/pc release rather than PS3/pc - the only reason to do the PS3/PC combo probably would be massive amount of data in game which would make releasing it on x360 too expensive (as M$ take cash for each disk in game)

No, they don't.

 

 

 After 2 they do.

Tim Willits sez no.

 



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BKK2 on 11 March 2009
badgenome said:
Skittles said:
badgenome said:
Zlejedi said:
Hmm that's a weird choice of platforms. I'd expect full x360/ps3/pc release rather than PS3/pc - the only reason to do the PS3/PC combo probably would be massive amount of data in game which would make releasing it on x360 too expensive (as M$ take cash for each disk in game)

No, they don't.

 

 

 After 2 they do.

Tim Willits sez no.

 

Carmack:

According to Carmack, the royalty fees to include a third disc in the Xbox 360 version would be so high that it simply isn't a feasible solution, with the programmer hoping for Microsoft to make a concession. He stressed that the issue is merely a storage problem and has nothing to do with the power of the Xbox 360 hardware, while adding that the PlayStation 3's Blu-ray format is Sony's one leg up on the competition.

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/53976

Willets:

"Microsoft is not being dickheads," he said. "It was a simple kind of miscommunication. Microsoft does not charge a royalty per disc, but there is a cost of goods that goes along with manufacturing. "

That sounds like semantics to me.

For example if Microsoft charge a $5 royalty per game, and a $5 manufacturing charge per disc then it's basically a royalty per disc even if Microsoft doesn't call it one. Actual manufacturing costs per disc would be cents and wouldn't be worth any kind of mention by either Carmack or Willets.

 



badgenome on 11 March 2009

BKK2 said:

For example if Microsoft charge a $5 royalty per game, and a $5 manufacturing charge per disc then it's basically a royalty per disc even if Microsoft doesn't call it one. Actual manufacturing costs per disc would be cents and wouldn't be worth any kind of mention by either Carmack or Willets.

Cost of manufacturing could also be for those funky multi-disc cases which we never seem to get, so I assume they're super expensive.

But yeah, you could be right.



shio on 11 March 2009

So it's not PS3 exclusive? Threat title am fail



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Zlejedi on 11 March 2009

It's as much of an exclusive as Alan Wake and Mass Effect 2 :)



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jammy2211 on 11 March 2009

I'm sure this is just vaporware.



badgenome on 11 March 2009
Zlejedi said:
It's as much of an exclusive as Alan Wake and Mass Effect 2 :)

Which are not exclusives.

 



Zlejedi on 11 March 2009
badgenome said:
Zlejedi said:
It's as much of an exclusive as Alan Wake and Mass Effect 2 :)

Which are not exclusives.

 

Tell that to x360 fanboys who tend to ignore existance of pc in cases like this :)



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badgenome on 11 March 2009
Zlejedi said:
badgenome said:
Zlejedi said:
It's as much of an exclusive as Alan Wake and Mass Effect 2 :)

Which are not exclusives.

 

Tell that to x360 fanboys who tend to ignore existance of pc in cases like this :)

Hey, at least they have gotten used to saying "console exclusive."