Looks like I'll be getting the ps3 version instead of the PC version.

Thanks Sony/Atari you just saved me some cash in June. Too many titles I wanted to buy then anyway

another ps3 exclusive :P

Wait, now Sony is actually fucking up MY game time? As a Wii owner? I thought I was avoiding Sony's bullshit by not buying a PS3. Looks like I'll never escape.

Sony is fucking up my whole year now. Ghostbusters was going to be one of my graduation presents to myself, along with Punch-Out!!. It was going to be the late 80's all over again.

This is bullshit. I hope Sony sells a billion PS3s at once so they go out of business.

And I was thinking about buying a cheap PS2 later this year. Looks like I'll go with a DreamCast instead.

Short answer, no. If you own the sole copyright to something then you have the full force of the law BEHIND you to monopolise anything and everything to which you can remotely establish a connection to the copyrighted material.

If you've signed over the right for someone else to use the material for a particular purpose, then try to take it back then you might be in some contractual difficulty. But that's nothing to do with monopolies. That's contract law, a completely different legal beast.

If Sony owned the copyrights on every movie ever made there is nothing any rival console or game maker could do to force Sony to allow someone else to use the material. That's what copyright means. The owner of the "copy" has ALL the "rights". Everyone else in the world has none.

Why would Sony hog all movie --> game adaptations for exclusive release on the PS brand? Every time a Wii/X360/PC/DS version is sold Sony is ringing the cash register. They might hold back the occasional movie franchise for exlusivity if they think there is a system selling advantage aver the easy money they'll make off game sales on other consoles. But are Movie-->Game adaptations really system sellers, really really?

The fate of the PS3 cannot be helped by keeping movie--> game adaptations exclusive, neither can it be hindered by letting them all go multiplat.

Timed exclusivity sounds like a very happy and profit maximising medium.

loooooool I couldn't stop laughing

lol haha XD

Anyways just buy a ps3 :p You'll be helping with the 1billion thing.

I just updated the OP with confirmed information directly from the press release, please note the bit in red.

So it's a timed exclusive for PS3/PS2, published by Sony in PAL regions and presumably by Atari in the rest of the world?