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Rainbird on 30 June 2009

http://www.joystiq.com/2009/06/30/saywhut-trine-dev-says-xbla-release-is-speculation/

"Anatomy of confusion:

  1. At E3 earlier this month, Atlus announces that they'll be publishing Frozenbyte's very impressive co-op platformer Trine on Xbox Live Arcade.
  2. Primotech is purportedly told by an Atlus representative at E3 that the Xbox Live Arcade release will feature online co-op as well as offline. Neither the PC nor PSN versions, both of which are being released much sooner than the XBLA version, will feature online co-op.
  3. Shacknews links Primotech's assertion, and Joystiq in turn links that.
  4. Developer Frozenbyte takes to the forums to clear the confusion, stating that "The XBLA version and its features is just speculation at this point."

Wait, what? "The XBLA version ... is just speculation at this point"?

Developer fb_joel writes, "... as developers, we would love as many people as possible to be able to play our games and therefore I hope Trine will eventually find its way to XBLA too." So, not only is Frozenbyte stating that online co-op in the Xbox Live Arcade version is "speculation" but that the XBLA release itself is speculation as well! We bet Atlus wishes someone told them that at E3!

The developer later said, "On the actual topic I will not comment as no-one knows anything about XBLA at this point, and I really hope when some people do know, I would be one of them." Yeah, we're right there with you. GamerBytes reported from E3 that Trine "hasn't been given the official nod from Microsoft for concept approval, and therefore Atlus are unable to send out press releases or other information about the game." That may explain why, when contacted for this story, Atlus responded with a very terse "no comment." We've reached out to Frozenbyte as well, and will update this story accordingly."

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I guess Atlus are either confident that it will be approved, or they just jumped the gun a little soon.



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JaggedSac on 30 June 2009

Never heard of this game.



Rainbird on 30 June 2009
JaggedSac said:
Never heard of this game.

You should hope for a XBLA version, you're missing out.



JaggedSac on 30 June 2009

That does look pretty neat.



PullusPardus on 30 June 2009

"Neither the PC nor PSN versions, both of which are being released much sooner than the XBLA version, will feature online co-op."

huh? , why is that?



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Aion on 30 June 2009

It looks great hope it happens.



 

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LordMatrix on 30 June 2009

Not going to cry over this if true but when a person that comes into the Microsoft forums spouting negative information I take it with a grain of salt(especially one that doesn't own a X360 or even want one). If Atlus says they are bringing it to XBLA then I will take their word for it unless they clarify it later. For now I will just shrug this off.



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sinha on 01 July 2009

Trine "hasn't been given the official nod from Microsoft for concept approval

If MS approval is the only holdup, I'm sure Trine will eventually come to XBLA.



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Rainbird on 01 July 2009
LordMatrix said:
Not going to cry over this if true but when a person that comes into the Microsoft forums spouting negative information I take it with a grain of salt(especially one that doesn't own a X360 or even want one). If Atlus says they are bringing it to XBLA then I will take their word for it unless they clarify it later. For now I will just shrug this off.

Sooo... if someone who did own a 360 were to post it, you would be less skeptical? Even if the post was exactly the same? That makes no sense.

Read the news again, and tell me that it isn't credible. And while you are at it, read what it actually says. It says the game doesn't exist yet, and has yet to be approved by Microsoft, which is why it is still 'speculation'.



Gabriel84 on 01 July 2009

looks ok. May get it if it's on xbox live