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CrazzyMan on 06 May 2009

dude... Sony owns Ghostbusters, your lucky non-Playstation versions are even being made
THIS.



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2009.04.30 - PS3 will OUTSELL x360 atleast by the middle of 2010. Japan+Europe > NA.


Gran Turismo 3 - 1,06 mln. in 3 weeks with around 4 mln. PS2 on the launch.
Gran Turismo 4 - 1,16 mln. with 18 mln. PS2 on the launch.

Final Fantasy X - around 2 mln. with 5 mln. PS2 on the launch.
Final Fantasy X-2 - 2.4 mln. with 12 mln. PS2 on the launch.

 

1.8 mln. PS3 today(2008.01.17) in Japan. Now(2009.04.30) 3.16 mln. PS3 were sold in Japan.
PS3 will reach 4 mln. in Japan by the end of 2009 with average weekly sales 25k.

PS3 may reach 5 mln. in Japan by the end of 2009 with average weekly sales 50k.
PS2 2001 vs PS3 2008 sales numbers =) + New games released in Japan by 2009 that passed 100k so far

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Phoenix_Wiight on 06 May 2009

this is kind of hilarious because just a few weeks ago Sony stated at a conference that they DON’T pay for exclusives like microsoft does.



MaxwellGT2000 on 06 May 2009
CrazzyMan said:
dude... Sony owns Ghostbusters, your lucky non-Playstation versions are even being made
THIS.

 

Sony also owned rights to the Spider man movie games, should we be glad those got made as well?

Anyway Columbia and SCE are two different entities and act as two different bodies. 

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Since the news only effects PAL does that mean no movie/game in NA?



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FKNetwork on 06 May 2009

Why are people even bothered by this when the game looks nothing more than another "meh, next please"



lapsed_gamer on 06 May 2009
FKNetwork said:
Why are people even bothered by this when the game looks nothing more than another "meh, next please"

 

Because we are old... and we disagree.



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megaman79 on 06 May 2009
lapsed_gamer said:
FKNetwork said:
Why are people even bothered by this when the game looks nothing more than another "meh, next please"

 

Because we are old... and we disagree.

 

Welcome to "core" gamer igonorance. Everyone buys GTA4, COD4, GOW2 and anything with mega violence, mega explosions and mega advertising and marketing campaigns, but everything else dies like a quite fart.



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loy310 on 06 May 2009
FKNetwork said:
Why are people even bothered by this when the game looks nothing more than another "meh, next please"

 

Because the PS3 exclusive games list just got a lot better and there are people out there that grow up with The Ghostbusters series and loved it. TGB is an established franchise, so this timed exclusive should be taken as a big deal. The generation that grew up on TGB cartoons and movies are today’s gamers and moviegoers. 

 



waron on 06 May 2009

so wait this is a timed exclusive in europe? so what US will get all versions the same day yet wii/ds/360 owners in europe will have to wait for their versions?



Hyruken on 06 May 2009

And just like that the whole "Sony doesn't pay for exclusives" defence dies.

But lets get a few things straight. Columbia own the Ghostbusters franchise not Sony. Sony bought Columbia in 1989. 5 years after the 1st film was made.
Sony had nothing to do with Ghostbusters at all. They purchased the company who owns the license to it. They agreed to sell Zen Studios a license to create a game based on the franchise. With that comes no exclusivity deal at all to the parent company. As far as they are concerned they have been paid money for use of the license and have zero influence over what it is used for.
Roll on to today and Sony have had to pay cash to Atari to effectivley make it timed exclusive to the PS3.

So pretty much Sony have had to pay money to have exclusivity to a franchise from a company of which they own. Is there no wonder why Sony are getting battered financially if they make decisions like that?

Also it must be mentioned this only effects europe so it all seems rather stupid to me. Seems like a desperation move to me. I am a huge Ghostbusters fan. Even have a pre-order for the Blu-Ray version with the free ecto 1 key-ring. But the game looks shit, it was dropped by publishers for a reason so i expect it to bomb. Which again will just make Sony look even more stupid if that happen's.



papflesje on 06 May 2009

Roll on to today and Sony have had to pay cash to Atari to effectivley make it timed exclusive to the PS3.

So pretty much Sony have had to pay money to have exclusivity to a franchise from a company of which they own. Is there no wonder why Sony are getting battered financially if they make decisions like that?


Has that been said anywhere? For all we know, Sony just jumped at the chance because Atari is having financial problems by offering to take over publishing for a decreased cut, but with exclusivity somewhere. For all we know, this might be a test case for future games / movies.

Unless.... you were there at the contract meetings?