If the games are still being published by other companies, then my friend, Sony adding money was for other reasons, like the Blu Ray version of the Ghostbusters movie coming out?

Ghostbusters: The Video Game has a complicated history.  From wikipedia:

Development

In 2006, game developer Zootfly started work on a Ghostbusters game before having secured the rights to develop the game from Sony. The company subsequently released videos of an early version of the game onto the Internet. However, the company was unable to secure the rights to develop the game as a Ghostbusters game. Zootfly then continued development of the game as a non-Ghostbusters themed game renamed TimeO.[16]

Coincidentally, in the Spring of 2007, Sierra Entertainment and developer Terminal Reality met with Sony to discuss the possibility of developing their own Ghostbusters video game.[17] The positive reaction that Zootfly's videos garnered helped sell the concept of such a game to Sony.[16]

Development of the game stopped when Vivendi merged with Activision to form Activision Blizzard. On July 28, 2008 Activision Blizzard (the publisher of Vivendi's and Sierra's titles) announced that only five franchises would be released through Activision. Ghostbusters was not one of them and was put in developmental limbo following the announcement. The Sierra PR team later confirmed that the game was not and would not be cancelled.[18]

Ending months of speculation, Infogrames announced on November 7, 2008 that Atari would be releasing the game in June 2009[19] to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the first film's theatrical release. At the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show, Sony confirmed that the game will be released on June 16 in North America and June 19 in Europe, alongside Blu-Ray releases of the Ghostbusters films.[6] Sony later announced that they would be publishing the PS2 and PS3 versions in Europe, while Atari will publish the game for other consoles later in the year. Atari will remain the sole publisher for the games in North America. [3]

Oh, there is definite bias there, but that's why I'm trying to talk about the game as little as possible and more the GB franchise.  Again, still a bias there since 1) it's putting food on my table, and 2) I've loved GB long before the game, but it still doesn't change the fact Ghostbusters is still a huge franchise that people know and love.

Like I said, I don't feel like talking about the game or Sony's decision too much other than correcting the typical movie title mistake, just putting out there that Ghostbusters is still a big thing even though not much new has happened with it in the last 20 years.

The fact it's still so well known and well loved without much new after 20 years should be a testament to how big it is.

The 360, PS3, and PC versions are all the same developer, Terminal Reality.

The Wii, PS2, and DS version are all Red Fly Studio.

Err... I don't get this.

what miniscule fraction of those 64M fingered gamers actually even care?

seems to be to be a lot of hoopla about a game no one would care about if it weren't for this ruckus.

I dare the creators of Ghostbusters to find a toy maker to recreate their IP. After they achieve this, they can get Ghostbuster toys into Toys 'R Us. We'll see the sales in a month. I bet I'll be right in the end.

I know we argued about narrative in games, etc. but I do hope that the input of the actors, etc. really makes a difference in this game.  I've always enjoyed the movies and have high hopes the game manages to deliver a nice mix of fun gameplay with some good lines from the guys.

I find Ghostbusters inhabits that rare territory where people, particularly kids, who have never even seen the movie, still know it and love the concept.  It was only recently I watched the first film on TV with my kids realising that while the referred to it and knew it they'd never actually seen it.

I'm still right about the narrative bit though...

I was under the impression that the European version was going to be released later on in the year anyway, and that Sony signed the deal so that they could get the ps2/3 versions out early in time for the Blu-Ray release.

I mean, hell, they didn't even bother with the PSP version.

But I'm probably 100% wrong on that.  I honestly don't know much about the issue.

Well if it means anything after nearly three years I still laugh at many of the scenes even though I've seen them all 100 times:

So basically. its only because Sony is doing it?  Because if it was Microsoft you would be okay with it? Since the number would only be 60-62 million of pissed off fans, you wouldnt be one of those so its alright?