Limbo rating sought by Sony in Korea, could be PSN-bound

by Christopher Grant on Jun 29th 2011 10:40AM

Shortly before last summer's release of Limbo – that year's top Xbox Live Summer of Arcade title "by a long stretch" – the ESRB erroneously listed the PlayStation 3 and PC platforms in addition to the Xbox 360. Developer Playdead's Dino Patti told us, "We are only launching the title on XBLA. You won't see a PS3 or PC version this time around, sorry."

However, like other Summer of Arcade indie exclusives before it including Braid and Castle Crashers, Limbo could make an appearance on Sony's platform after a period of exclusivity ... like, say, a year or so. The Korean Game Ratings Board has a listing for Limbo filed by Sony Computer Entertainment Korea. It so happens that the GRB has a pretty strong track record, outing Xbox Live Arcade titles like Fruit Ninja Kinect and Sega Rally Online Arcade. Before you get your hopes up, we've reached out to Playdead for a comment on the listing.

Via: GameSetWatch
Source: Korea's Game Rating Board

Tags: korea, limbo, microsoft, PlayDead, playstation, ps3, psn, ratings, xbox

Reader Comments (55)

Fingers are officially crossed.

@Urethra Alfredo

...so are sharp legs and venemous mandibles.

@Urethra Alfredo I find it strange that your comment was downvoted. Must be a disillusioned fanboy raging in the comments here. ;)

@Urethra Alfredo

This might mean i can sell my xbox... I dont want to, But i need the money.

@LEONLEONLEON

dude if you really need money I think you can do without a version of limbo. I mean I've never played it but still ...

@Urethra Alfredo
Same here ... fingers crossed.

Now, if the same could also happen for Super Meat Boy, then I'd be a completely happy ps3 gamer.

@Dhexodus crossed high voltage wires

@SmokemeaKipper Crossed streams

This picture summarizes why the "forest" in Limbo terrified me.

Games like this , are the reason why " fanboys " suck donkey ballz and owners of both 360/PS3 are in a win win situation.........therefore by default we are also 10x smarter , attractive and have massive tallywhackers

@Crazy Savant

Well I only have one of those and most good games get ported to the PS3.

So we all win!

And who has time to play all good games that come out on every platform?

Wasn't there a LBP2 level that mimicked Limbo? I heard they were comparable.

@PN04

Yeah, There are a few. I played one that was very close.

@PN04 I played a few and I don't think they were close at all. LBP Limbo isn't even remotely spooky.

I am one of the biggest Limbo fanboys I've ever seen though, so take it with a grain of salt.

A fanboy from BOTH consoles?

Never thought I would see one.

@Dhexodus
Yes I love both my 360 and PS3 equally , and their lovely exclusives of course

This game should definitely be on more platforms. I played it when it came out last summer and I think everyone should experience the weirdness of this game. :)

If this happens, PS3-only users should most definitely download this game. Yes, it's short, but it is simply amazing. I loved every second of it and cannot recommend it enough to people. Great stuff. I hope more people get to play this one. It deserves a larger audience.

@Uncle Jesse

+1

I bought an xbox for this game and Alan Wake. That is how good this game is.

@PreGHz

Yeah, I bought a PS3 over an Xbox 360 simply because Sony's disc-based exclusives appealed to me more than Microsoft's.

I still regret not taking XBLA's exclusives into consideration when making my purchase, though.

Super Meat Boy, Limbo, 'Splosion Man, Perfect Dark, Banjo Kazooie and all those damn Treasure games would've made quite a persuasive argument while I was mulling the systems over in Best Buy. PSN exclusives, while generally quite impressive in terms of quality (I still play Super Stardust HD), are simply too few and far between when compared to XBLA's catalog.

I'm not exactly made out of money, but I figure that the next price cut Microsoft doles out, I'll snag a 'box.

Ikaruga alone is worth the price of admission, though it would be nice to finally play Super Meat Boy with something other than a stupid f*cking keyboard.

@Urethra Alfredo

I love Ikaruga, still pop that in my Dreamcast every September 9th.

@Uncle Jesse

I second this. I hated on Limbo forever after hearing it was only a few hours long at a $15 price point. Once it had a 50% off sale, I got around to buying it, and only just last week or so got around to playing it. It wasn't too long before I felt like a total d-bag for hating on it all that time.

The game absolutely deserves all the high praise it gets. It's the definitive argument for video games as art. But not in the tacked-on way of Braid where it's basically all story based and loosely tied to the gameplay and sequence of events . With Limbo, every action in that game, every second of gameplay, is a testament to it as an artistic piece. And this is all without even the slightest bit of narrative outside the gameplay.

Also, as a side note: the game is surprisingly dark and gritty. I wasn't expecting that all going into it but was welcomely surprised to find that out as I played

First rumors of Castlevania:Hamony of Despair being ported and now this... PSN can keep those sloppy seconds; Castlevania felt dated and Limbo really put me to sleep. If developers really want to screw over the original buyers buy releasing updated verisons on different system, they can keep it.

@The Doom - screw over the buyers of the original game? They have gotten a full year exclusivity which I would think is just as good as getting some bonus stuff a year later. Cut the game devs some slack please, because with attitudes like you they are in a damned if you do and damned if you don't situation. Listened to this great interview with Gabe Newel recently and as he pointed out, there are always a lot more things they want to do than they actually have the time and money to do, so you got to make hard choices. And for an independent developer to do staged releases, in order to make things viable for their budget, where they sugar the pill for the first platform with a period of exclusivity and then sugar the pill for the later platforms by adding some extra stuff is not being mean or assholes, it is just making ends meet and making it tempting for people to get a 'year old game'.

@The Doom what a dumb comment.

@The Doom

Because as soon as it's multi-platform, every copy purchased earlier stops working.

Now, without sarcasm, WHAT ON EARTH ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?

@Uraeus
@hrisgrant
I don't like the fact I paid money for a game and then suddenly a better verison of it comes out. It's almost as if I should've waited to buy it (or waited to get ALL dlc). This is what happened with Eternal Sonata, Tales of Vesperia, Star Ocean 4, Ninja Gaiden 2, Dragon Age, Mass Effect 2, Braid, Street Fighter IV, Fallout etc, etc,!! What was dick move from developers nowadays; only caring about money. Those stupid *******...

@The Doom Who said anything about being a better version? It's only a PSN release.

Geez, that your head out of your ass.

@The Doom

That's like complaining about seeing a movie in theaters and then complaining when you see the same movie in a $7 DVD bin full of extra features that people can watch OVER AND OVER. What a rip off! How dare those filmmakers have theatrical releases!

@Uraeus so your quoting the industry biggest two face asshole . that sad .

PLEASE GOD YES

Did Castle Crashers actually ever come out on the European PSN? Don't remember seeing it....

This is BS they get turned down by Sony or weren't interesting enough for them ,but the minute the game is a success else where they want to lure it on to their console & say that they were behind it but just wanted to see how it performed on the other platform. BS Microsoft should keep it exclusive or buy the MF.

@kmcroc
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@kmcroc

it's been exclusive for over a year, man, isn't that enough? besides, this isn't even confirmed yet and you're already flipping out. share the wealth and whatnot...by the time it comes out for psn users, how is it still even relevant to you? there will likely be another great xbla exclusive out at the time that will have psn fans hoping for a release...like fez, insanely twisted shadow planet, bastion, trenched, etc. etc. xbla is so far ahead of psn in terms of content and quality that it can't possibly matter that much to you if they get a few morsels every now and then, at least a YEAR after they were first enjoyed on the 360.

just look at it this way, if more people buy limbo, regardless of what platform it's on, the higher the chances are that playdead will be able to continue releasing great games on your beloved 360.

@Liquidfingers understand what you are saying , would not have a problem had it been released on both platforms from the start . but what am worried about is that this mighty become a trend & a one-side trend at that.

I really didn't "get" this game. I play a pretty wide variety of games so I can appreciate a lot. But I got this game on sale for maybe half off and that was too much. I don't why it has so much praise attached to it. It is a visually bland slow paced side scroller if you ask me.

Heard a lot of good things about it...

Hope it true...

Its coming to PC too.

A while back through certain Steam link you could download the Limbo trailer. I tried myself and it worked.

@rullers
Here is the link
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=432627

Loved it. It had essentially zero story... But if you look closer at the environment, and even the title screen, you can start to pull what happened together. It was brilliant.

Let them eat cake

Meh. It's gotten old.

@Meghterb1985

Meh, go to hell.

I'd like to try it out. I'll get it if comes over to PSN

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ldl8E_bpwhk

I didn't see that in the post! Thanks again Joystiq for ruining my life.

*read above in Chris Grant's upset/PC gamer voice*

I'd buy it. One that I've been meaning to buy on my 360, but I'd rather own it on my PS3.

LOL i remember when the Xbox 360 owners on these sites said its never coming to the PS3. Another Xbox 360 exclusive lost. . .

I think Limbo is the greatest video game I have ever played.

I highly recommend that PS3 owners get it right away if it comes out on the PS3.

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