and ofr the record, i dont even have a problem with MSFT doing the DLC exclusive deals or bishock and eternal sonata or tales times exclusives...its smart, it makes sense, its not forcing anyone to buy their product only giving them incentive...not screwing anybody but just offering consumers a different/better experience...its business.

Ha!  I didn't even think of that.

Exactly,

After all, the Ghostbusters movies belong to SONY PICTURES, therefore it's their intellectual property. They could easily have made it exclusive if they wanted to.It's actually pretty nice of them to allow it on other consoles at all.

So, NO they didn't pay for anything.

And if by this little deal, this guy who wrote the article says that "Sony gave 64 million gamers the finger", then I guess over the last 3 years Microsoft has kicked 64 million gamers in the face, bent them over, raped them, then pushed them into oncoming traffic.

Good job Sony :D

Sony can't just go back on the publishing contract with Atari.  I'm sure some deal had to go down to make this happen.

Just one more little squeak from me:

When MS has payed for exclusives like GTAIV DLC, paid for FFXIII, or even pretend they paid for a Bioshock timed exclusive, there's a large difference.

In the case of FFXIII, they are bringing the game to more people, that is a good thing.

In the case of GTAIV DLC or Bioshock, they aren't actually taking anything away from anyone since it was never promised to anyone.

In the Ghostbusters case, the game is actually being taken away from people, or at least delayed for some amount of time. The game was promised to these people, people bought systems for it (and yes, say what you want, people actually have), and people were hyped for the game, but now they don't get the game they've been waiting for.

That's why this is actually different.

Now I'm not condemning Sony, saying everyone should want Ghostbusters: the Video Game, or even upset with people that just yell OMG it's just Ghostbusters, why 15 pages!?!?!?, just pointing out that above little tidbit.

You know that this game doesn´t make a huge difference don´t  you?

Actually I thought the original interviews with Rockstar stated DLC for GTA4 was for everyone then M$ wrote a check for 50 million for the episodes. This still doesn't mean there wont be DLC for the PS3 GTA4 though, just means that the episodes tat are released for the 360 are exclusive.

I also don't believe Microsoft paid for FFXIII, I think it was Wada thinking "bring to western audiences" with that decision.

While Ghostbusters was Sony money-hatting, maybe as I believe Sony and Atari have a good relationship so they might not have paid anything at all except publishing costs, they just secured a game they believed should be released on their brand first. There is nothing wrong with that. It isn't like Microsoft hasn't done it since the original Xbox or Sony during the PS1's generation or Nintendo when they squared off against SEGA.

Actually, I think it does. There are a ton of people who actually want this game. Mostly all the poeple whining are the ones pissy about not getting their game on their system first. This is the bad part about only having 1 system this generation. You need at least 2 or 3 systems to make their generation work for anyone in terms of gettiing games. Typically you need a PSWii. PSPC, WiiPC, or a PSWiiPC.

I don't really know the history of the GTAIV DLC, but I'm pretty sure it was never actually announced for the PS3 so nothing really got taken away from PS3 gamers.

And MS may not have paid for FFXIII, but still, my point that the game getting brought to more people doesn't change.