Assassin's Creed Not a PS3 Exclusive? 38
Gamespot revisits a rumour that was floating around last month, which claims Assassin's Creed won't be a PS3 exclusive. From the article: "Further doubt of PS3 exclusivity was thrown into the mix this week when Web sites began reporting that Ubisoft confirmed at the Interactive Digital Entertainment Festival last week that the game would be coming to the Xbox 360 and PC. Which Web sites? It's not quite clear yet, though the rumor appears to have spawned on European-based Web sites. For those of you who predicted that Ubisoft would deny any other platforms for Assassin's Creed, pat yourself on the back. A rep told GameSpot News: 'Assassin's Creed is coming to the PS3. No other announcements have been made.'" Given the costs of next-gen game development, I don't think we're going to be seeing very many exclusives this time around.
I don't know about you... (Score:1)
Re:Yawn (Score:2)
Sad is not logging into a website so you can insult people on it anonymously.
Then again, sad is also responding to the AC troll.
Re:Yawn (Score:2)
Re:Yawn (Score:3, Interesting)
Don't get me wrong, I loved the first MGS for PS1 and thought it was extremely innovative (switching the controller when fighting Pscyho Mantis was simple but BRILLIANT), but MGS2 lacked these clever tricks and had too many long CG cutscenes which kind of turned me off from it (didn't even pick up MGS3). Final Fantasy has always been hit and miss for me (enjoyed VII and X, but hated 8 so refused to play 9 and then DESP
Yawns are contagious (Score:2, Interesting)
MGS is something the Japanese get excited about and the rest of the world mostly shrugs. Most of the game's target audience in the U.S. play To
Re:Yawns are contagious (Score:2)
The new real-time-ish battle system in FF12 will either revitalize the series, or alienate the remaining fanbase. I'm highly curious as to how it'll turn out.
Re:Yawn (Score:2)
I've heard that many times, but it still makes no sense. 8 and 9 were not similar. If anything, 8 and 10 are closer in style to each other.
There are (or at least were at the time) two devteams inside Square that make Final Fantasy games. They staggered the releases, so the team that made FF7 also made FF9. The team that made FF8 made FF10. FF11 kinda screwed up the pattern, but there you go.
Re:Yawn (Score:2)
Not Surprising (Score:2)
Demoing AC on PS3 hardware was a good thing. Using it a
Re:Not Surprising (Score:1)
Huh? (Score:2)
Huh? At the TGS 2005 which was the start of Sony's PS3 push, Sony showed some work by Ubi's Monteral Studios simply known as "Project Assassin". Assassin's Creed was *demoed* at E3 on PS3 hardware. It got plenty of press because it was actually a functional demo instead of some looping trailer which
Re:Not Surprising (Score:1)
Re:Exclusive titles will be on the Wii (Score:2)
Re:Exclusive titles will be on the Wii (Score:1)
Oh, and the Wii probably will have an emulator for the old games. You may have heard of it... [engadget.com]
Cross platform is smart. (Score:1)
AC on Wii - No (Score:2)
Nice idea, but this is not going to happen. There's been a lot of debate about how the PS3 and XBox 360 compare in power, but one thing is clear: the Wii is a lot weaker.
This isn't a failing on Nintendo's part. They've made it clear the Wii's supposed to be a whole different kind of product. I very much hope it succeeds, but if it does so it won't be by carrying ports of all the PS3 titles.
Re:Cross platform is smart. (Score:1)
There will be tons of exclusives. On the Wii. (Score:3, Insightful)
Yes, we are. Not on the PS3 and Xbox 360, but definitely on the Wii.
Re:There will be tons of exclusives. On the Wii. (Score:2)
And for those games that are released cross-platform for both the 360 and the PS3, I expect to see a lot of lowest-common-denominator coding. Given the choice between developing two divergent codebases highly optimized for the systems' respective CPUs, or a baseline PowerPC codebase that only needs slight tweaking to give decent performance on each platform, which do you think small-to-medium development houses are more likely to pursue?
Re:There will be tons of exclusives. On the Wii. (Score:2)
Re:There will be tons of exclusives. On the Wii. (Score:2)
Why? Well, because Bungi is owned by Microsoft. They can afford to make it exclusive and in no uncertain terms Microsoft has said they will use that for leverage against Sony. No pressure on Bungi employees or anything.
Re:There will be tons of exclusives. On the Wii. (Score:2)
"One" is even smaller than "not many". Besides, it'll come out for PC and Mac a year after the 360 version. By the way, it's "Bungie".
Re:There will be tons of exclusives. On the Wii. (Score:2)
Well, to be fair, that knife cuts both ways.
- More unique games will appear only on the Wii, because of its unique controller.
- More typically multiplatform games will NOT appear on the Wii, because of its unique controller.
Both statements are true. Now, you can quite plausibly say that this is to your liking, if you are sick and tired of also-ran franchise series games plaguing you. However I would hasten to add that, if you are a N
Re:There will be tons of exclusives. On the Wii. (Score:2)
They probably will appear, but in unique versions. That the Wii won't get the specific versions of these games that the 360 and the PS3 will get is very obvious, and I never denied that. If you want access to most games, you need both a Wii and either a 360 or a PS3.
Re:There will be tons of exclusives. On the Wii. (Score:2)
Oh that's right (Score:2)
Wait for it... (Score:2)
Yet. "No other announcements have been made [yet]."
Face it, as far as anyone knows, Assassin's Creed was just a trailer. There was no gameplay, no word on whether it would use the motion sensor and anybody who compared the graphics from the 360 and PS3 knows its not hard to imagine the game running on the 360 (at least in the graphics department.)
Ubi ... pure genius (Score:1)