It's said that the rats are the first to abandon a sinking ship. While not rats, publishers are beginning to abandon the PS3 after its less-than-impressive launch and news of production woes. Three titles have pulled up stakes and moved to the Xbox 360 (as cross-platform).
Koei, long time PlayStation supporter (and company frequently billed as key support to win the generation) has pulled Fatal Inertia and Blade Storm: The Hundred Years' War from the PS3 exclusive list and plopped them squarely into the Xbox 360 camp. Another PlayStation staple, the Armored Core series, is also coming to the white box in the form of Armored Core 4.
Sony is going to be in for a difficult battle if key players keep moving over party lines; Microsoft is doing far better coaxing exclusive content over to the 360. If Sony continues to lose its differentiation, why should gamers continue to shell out up to $200 more just to play the same games? Enjoy this machine translation for those who can't read Japanese.
[Thanks, Stephen]













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lol
that aught to disuade buyers. haha
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give me Metal Gear!!!!
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Xbox Live Multiple prayer (~ 4 person)
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but as mentioned above, none of these games have much potential to be any good at all, so really, who cares.
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D#1 :Delays
D#2 :Deceit
D#3 :Downtime
D#4 :Dung
Now ^^that^^ folks is true 4D.
Ps: PS4 will be 5D.(when they upgrade the 'dung' to 'Doo Doo')
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D#1 :Delays
D#2 :Deceit
D#3 :Downtime
D#4 :Dung
Now ^^that^^ folks is true 4D.
Ps: PS4 will be 5D.(when they upgrade the 'dung' to 'Doo Doo')"
Fanboys are useless... Your lies are very terrible. Do you even try anymore?
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clap... clap.......... clap..........
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The Sony PR drones are truly out and spinning today.
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Nintendo and Microsoft also missed their shipping targets.
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If we some MGS4, DMC, or FF (or whatever other acronyms I can't think of right now) I might be a bit more impressed.
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I agree.. That is a pretty bad blog graphic!
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B33-Sony-Drone, please provide proof of this. 360 shipping targets are right on for this holiday (which is what everyone's talking about) and the Wii is in line to sell (not ship) 1mil by end of year.
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This aint that great of a news though because I bet you PS3 will get the game first then the xbox360.
All this is saying is that those game just wont be only on the playstation 3 . Also I wouldnt be afraid of sony losing 3rd parties until I hear sqaure-enix say they're making Final Fantasy 13 for the xbox360........
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If more bad news keeps coming (which it most likely will) it'll make it that much harder for SCE to right this ship. All they need now is for Blu-ray to flop and Sony will be toast.
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Proud of your slot loader? See here WHY they are a bad idea (when made by Sony and put in a Sony console)
http://news.punchjump.com/blog/2006/11/21/sony-ps3-fails-out-of-the-box/
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I'd say by April or May we'll have a solid idea as to where Sony will end up in these nex gen wars. If PS3 production hasn't increased or shown signs of increasing, I'd say things would look pretty bleak for Sony.
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D#1 :Delays
D#2 :Deceit
D#3 :Downtime
D#4 :Dung
Now ^^that^^ folks is true 4D.
Ps: PS4 will be 5D.(when they upgrade the 'dung' to 'Doo Doo')"
So true my man so true....LOLOL
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We've been seeing 360 Armored Core screenshots and movies since it was announced.
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Metal Gears Solid and Final Fantasy land on the 360. These are definitely the biggest guns the PS3 has, and without them Sony is almost doomed. I know a lot of people who are only getting the PS3 for one of these two games, and for only that one. These are the key series that will keep the PS3 from dying completely.
B33, slickhead is correct about one of those D's. Deceit has been Sony's middle name ever since E3 2006. Why? E3 2005 held tons of promises that many of us bought into. E3 2006 was more or less the most disappointing videogame event I ever witnessed. This kind of ticked me off, and I stopped supporting the PS3.
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I didn't care about any of these titles before either. But I don't care about MGS or DMC. Just bring us Final Fantasy XIII on the 360 and my Playstation days will end FOREVER.
:)
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Like that pres of atari said a few weeks back, sony treated its partners like dirt during the ps2 era and its catching up with them now. Devs are starting to realize they dont need to take that kind of shit. Sony needs to swollow its pride and start kissing some ass.
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Yes, Assassin's Creed was a big fish to lose exclusivity on. But praise for the Xbox onlyness of Bioware games has to be tempered by the ready PC availability of those titles. If System Shock wasn't availble on the PC, I'd be much more tempted to snap up a 360. As it is, PS3-only exclusives still trump the 360's real exclusives by a wide margin in my mind.
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For now i enjoy Gears of war, not to mention other great games, but the list is too big. :)
All Sony has is MGS, DMC and FF... anyway g/l trying...
I would consider getting ps3 if they had better PR. but their BS just makes their fans look like assholes. Sad.
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armored core?? fatal inertia?? eww, a real threat..
man, xbox can have those crappy titles! Have you forgotten that even with the 360's head start, the PS2 has continued to pounce on it in console sales?? I'm not sure if this remains true since the launch of Gears. But it's not like the 360 was ever a real threat to Sony. C'mon man, get real. So the 360 managed to snag a couple of Sony exclusives. BIG DEAL. Microsoft should have been making these moves since before the 360 launch; not after a red carpet intro for two other next gen consoles.
Right now, the only thing that's keeping the xbox 360 alive is the fact that they've had a year's head start prior to the coming of the Wii and the PS3. THAT'S IT!
Look, the 360 had over a year to recruit heads into its next gen militia and they fell short of expectations. now, all of a sudden, Gears comes out and 360 fanboys are screaming, "we're baaack!" Really?? Without Halo 2(online), the 360 would have been another expensive paper weight! Period. so guess what.. an exclusive contract with a Halo 3 appetizer(Gears) just won't be enough to consider Microsoft a contender in the next gen war to occupy living room space.
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Hmm. In the past year, 3 people have been in my living room that were not 360 fans, and now each of them has one. I'll even give it to you that ONE of them was a dude who saw a Gears of War video I d/led on Marketplace.
Maybe my filled up with videos and demos hard drive and all my Arcade games and my ability to stream music, pics and videos from my PC and Mac upstairs kinda swayed them.
Or maybe it was its paperweight skills.
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in case you haven't noticed, tiaMaster, that's not a very big deal. Especially when you consider that i don't even need a pc to do the same things on my psp! As a matter of fact, a person can stream content from their PS3 onto their psp from anywhere in the world. this content is including, but not limited to, videos, demos and mp3s. But your talking about streaming stuff to your 360 from your PC upstairs??! Trust me. Microsoft can do way better than that.
Now let's talk games on the 360. Then again, once you mention Gears and Halo there really isn't much left to talk about. My point is that a console should not have to rely on one or two big titles to stay in the race. Hate my words all you want. the fact is that the 360 has not lived up to the hype since its lauch. also, a year is far too long for me to wait between decent game titles!
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Yeah, I'm sure their source (xbox.com) had to look on Kotaku's website first.
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I love my PS3. I've been a pretty die-hard Sony fan for many years.
Yet I have to admit that the PS3 is not *that* better than my 360. Truth is they're both great systems. Everyone here has PS3 burnout however so we've already unplugged it and went back to GoW.
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Now for all the sony fanboys here's whats funny to me.First off I remember everyone screaming how the ps2 had tons of software, literally tons of software.Is this not one of the reasons the ps2 system is still selling?Not everyone that has a ps2 gets every ff or mgs game.(I have never bought a ff game, and most of my friends havent either, I never owned a mgs either, same as my friends)But its all about the content.Actually if you do the math based on units of software the xbox had better quality games because it actualy had less games that were craptacular.There are currently over 8,000 ps2 games, and most people that are hardcore may own30-40(counting games that were purchased pre owned.)But the reason being is that yes there are people that buy barbie games, and movie license games etc.Thats why these games keep getting released.Now fatal inertia looks like a fun game.
So say what you will, but as long as these titles come it only proves one thing.That m$ made the correct decision in creating hardware that was dev friendly(moreso than the competition) and releasing better dev tools that create lower cost.This actually helps devs.People are saying that m$ is screwed and whatnot, but that is far from the truth.With the headstart(from m$) and rising dev cost(sony and m$), I mean honestly we all heard this from J Allard multiple times. sony should have made a more approachable system.Now the truth is that if the ps3 didnt have blu ray it would be more accessible to mainstream consumers($400.00>600.00$ consumer wise).The 360 isnt mainstream just yet, but its getting there.Even nintendo understood this and made a better effort to keep cost low.Trust me you will see a ton of crappy games for the wii, I know everyone here loves nintendo, but with cheaper production costs and the promise of better profit, most games will be the same just given a different title.I mean its too easy to resist.
The same way we saw gta clones, because it was a sure bet, but none actually had the quality of gta.It will be the same for the wii.Wii sports clones and anything else nintendo makes will be cloned and released without that pazazz.
As long as these games are coming to the 360 that means the ps3 is still suffering in consoles sold.
And the honest truth is this:People dont buy 600$ consoles.Sonys losing $240.00 on every ps3 sold, so when do you expect to see a price drop?No you wont see one by next christmas either if you do it will be a desperation attempt to get better sales.
Thes weak games that everyones talking about actually paves the way for the mgs, and the ff.Do you really think that mgs is gonna release on a console with say 24 million consumers with ps3's?Trust me that would be suicide especially if the game is really good.Thats why you will see mgs and ff.Its about keeping the lights on at the end of the day, and its easier to do that with millions of extra consumers ready for that game(xbox360 fanbase)
Ask your self this question and be honest.Are you really ready to spend $600-$700 for a gaming experiance with a friend?(game and extra controller turns the core ps3 into more than 600$ after taxes, and thats not good.Especially when I can get a premium 360,extra controller, 2 games of your choice(good ones at that wider variety) live subscription, and on the way home fill up the gas tank.lol
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