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Sony's Potential Unannounced Exclusives

3rd party exclusive is hard to come by, 1st party exclusive is now the pillar of power.

Sony announced a lot of stuff in their long E3 conference such as Zipper's MAG and Bend's Resistance Retribution but is there more they are not showing us? Sony has acquired a lot of studio over the past ten years and not all of them have produce games since acquisition, what is going on? Are they hiding something from the gamers? Will we see more in TGS?

Broken down by studios
DrWan - contributor
Published: 515 days 15 hours ago | Article | E3 2008 | PlayStation 3
 
 

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Bombibomb - 515 days 15 hours ago
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Most of the upcoming PS3 exclusives are actually being published by Sony. Microsoft won't have anything left to steal soon lol.

Just to name a few:

1) White Knight Chronicles
2) Heavy Rain
3) InFamous
4) Killzone 2
5) Resistance 2
6) Motorstorm: Pacific Rift
7) Gran Turismo 5
8) M.A.G.
9) Code name "HARDWARE 2"
10) LittleBigPlanet
11) SOCOM: Confrontation
12) Two new projects from Team ICO
13) New Twisted Metal from Eat Sleep Play
14) The Agency
15) Uncharted 2
16) God of War 3
17) DC Universe
18) WipEout HD
19) Freerealms MMO
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DrWan - 515 days 15 hours ago
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well Sony has biggest 1st party dev
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jwatt - 515 days 15 hours ago
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I think alot of the devs from the SCE London Studio has been helping out on Home along side another game that we don't know of.
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Bombibomb - 515 days 15 hours ago
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And Wardevil is a 3rd party exclusive coming in 2009. The 360 version was canceled. It never even went into development.
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jkhan - 515 days 15 hours ago
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That is one of the reason they don't care about third party exclusive. They know for the cost to acquire a third party exclusive, its better the invest that amount in first part developers. Which is where Sony's real strength is, which is why Sony will not be a big loser. We know that they are cooking up something big. TeamICO is the one I am most excited about. Let see what Sony announces at Leipzig.
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StephanieBBB - 515 days 10 hours ago
1.6 - What I want to know is...
where the hell did Mafia 2 go???? =S
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TheMART at Xboxkings - 515 days 6 hours ago
1.7 -
There isn't so much to steal by MS from Sony on the 3rd party, because most that could be stolen is already on the 360.

One of the two most important PS games lately, FFXIII, the other one from Konami could still make the crossover.

So yes, I agree, the 1st party stuff from Sony becomes more and more important. Little Big Planet is the one most appealing to a wide audience.

Big question is though how long many of those 1st party IPs will be delayed, like God of War III and GT5, if you ask me two big ones.
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ZeroBlitz - 515 days 2 hours ago
1.8 - @1.5
Nope, sadly there was an article a while back that said Sony had canned them to put the money towards some other game/s. It's too bad since I was rather interested in Eight Days but if the money is better spent improving another great game or two, it's not a big deal.

It's good to be reminded that Sony have got a major advantage over Microsoft after FFXIII went multiplat - I've seen so many people say they're not getting a PS3 now, it's disappointing. With so many more exclusives and multiplat PS3 games reaching the sort of quality they are on the 360, it looks like the PS3 has a fair chance of winning the console war. Especially if trophies become standard for every new game soon.
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Infernus - 515 days ago
1.9 - HARDWARE 2
This could very well be it. Hardware: Online Arena was released once the PS2 got online capabilities. The PSTwo (Slim version) gained the internal network adapter and Online Arena was the first game to hit (a 1st party title literally given to players on their introduction network disc).

While I have no proof (Neither does anyone else here), out of those games Hardware 2 would appear to be the most likely. It's unknown to the majority and has had no mention at all anywhere. Heavy Rain is mentioned constantly in topics like this, so it won't be that, and it has already been confirmed that Heavy Rain is not the game they're talking about.

So Hardware2 (H2:OA?) is my choice for 1st party. However I still feel Free Radical will bring TimeSplitters 4 to the PS3 exclusively (Timed), which could come as a side announcement to this 'big-hitter' we're hearing such great things about.
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Nitrowolf2 - 515 days 15 hours ago
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i bet they will have a surprise for soon.
New jak game?
FF7 remake?
it can be anything
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Sonics020 - 515 days 15 hours ago
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In this age game consoles will have to rely on first and second party titles and Sony has an excellent first party so you can expect to see some great games coming from Sony.
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SRuN4 - 515 days 15 hours ago
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Couple things that make me just wanna slap whoever wrote this. Insomniac is opening a studio in North Carolina, not Georgia. And didn't Jaffe already confirm they were working on a new Twisted Metal until Sony told him to keep quiet? Other than those two things it's a good look at their dev studios.
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Splenda14 - 515 days 15 hours ago
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Sony London is working on home
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PwnShop - 515 days 15 hours ago
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yeah, i think they're the same team that were working on getaway and eight days until Sony canceled there projects to focus on finishing home
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thePatriot - 515 days 13 hours ago
5.2 - arent they also helping
incognito with hardware 2 (working title)
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Sheddi - 515 days 8 hours ago
5.3 - @5.1
They didnt cancel them, they stopped them to work on them later.
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deeznuts - 514 days 14 hours ago
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sheddi, don't know where you heard that, but SOny said these were not to be resurrected.
http://www.gamesindustry.bi...
Look at the bottom.

Shame, I liked the trailer and looked forward to it.
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Sheddi - 514 days 5 hours ago
5.5 - @5.4
ahh that sucks
thanks for the info man, now i know how it is.
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grantps3 - 515 days 15 hours ago
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this was a good article

but what dev. is making the mystery game?

who knows thats the fun
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Xandet - 515 days 13 hours ago
7.1 - Fantastic Read!
Makes me really excited to see what's in store for us in the near future..
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Rice - 515 days 15 hours ago
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What if i were to say that this exclusive will flop llike lair?
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TOSgamer - 515 days 15 hours ago
8.1 - And why would you say a game you know nothing about will flop?
Unless you are a troll. BTW MS has just as many if not more first party/second party flops. Ninety Nine Nights, Tenchu, Viva Pinata party animals or Fusion Frenzy 2 ring any bells?
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RememberThe357 - 515 days 12 hours ago
8.2 - I think he was raising a good point.
I was so hyped up for Lair before the reviews came in. After they came in i was so freakin disappointed. I don't know what his point was but mine is this; Don't let them hype a game that doesn't work ever again. And spare me on that "Oh you just need to get used to the controls first" bullsh*t. The game had it's strengths but the controls ruined it. That said, I think what we're going to see from Sony is worth getting exited about, they have learned their lesson.
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Daver - 515 days 5 hours ago
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i would take Lair 2 over many games that is going to be release this fall.. It was a really good game.. If you are not able to judge for yourself and you need review then just dont buy games
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jmecase - 515 days 5 hours ago
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You do know they fixed the six-axis only controls with a patch and allowed for analog stick controls, right? I played all the way thru with the motion controls, I guess I "got use to them". Not the best game ever made, but was way better than the reviews I saw. So, if the controls were a problem, rent the game now, download the new controls, and play thru it, that is, if you were really that excited about it.
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RememberThe357 - 515 days ago
8.5 - Funny thing is that i was going to pick Lair up after I heard about the patch...
But that really wasn't the point of my comment...
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AclayPS3 - 515 days 15 hours ago
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Sony does have a lot of potential exclusives, but that website was a little off:

"David Jaffe’s Eat Sleep Play- Three exclusive games for Sony, and Twisted Metal is not one of them."

I thought that Twisted Metal for PS3 was already confirmed by Jaffe, but this site is saying that Twisted Metal is "NOT" one of the 3 exclusive games from Eat, Sleep, Play?

"Ted Price’s Insomniac - a new studio in Georgia is said to make brand new games for Sony. I wonder…."

I heard about a new studio from Insomniac in North Carolina, but NOT Georgia.

Well, that site definantly has a few misprints.

Anyways, there's one potentially BIG game that they left off, and it's a game that I've noticed a lot of people are forgetting about, the 3rd party exclusive from Digi-Guys, WARDEVIL. That game looks like it could be another God of War 3, and currently it has a 2009 release, and they released a trailer earlier this year... but many people didn't really get too much from the trailer... still, that game looks like it could be pretty incredible.
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DrWan - 515 days 15 hours ago
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was that u in the chat box?
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beavis4play - 515 days 8 hours ago
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i was hooked on wardevil as soon as i saw the trailer. those enemieis look awesome.
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Lord_Ash - 515 days 7 hours ago
9.3 - Twisted Metal
I think he was talking about Twisted Metal Head on for the PS2, it was made (or ported) on the PS2 by Eat Sleep Play and that game isn’t one of the 3 exclusives they will make on the PS3.
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Sanhlami - 515 days 15 hours ago
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I like how Sony deals with stuff. Make a lot of first party games until the third parties start to get the hang of cell and then tone it down. Great plan.

Man I can't wait until the secret amazing game is revieled even if it is Heavy Rain I still will be totally happy because that game looks better then a freaken CGI.
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Chris Hansen - 515 days 15 hours ago
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Sony will dominate this years Leipzig Games Convention and Tokyo Game Show
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LGDKLR - 515 days 15 hours ago
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according to gamestop, The Getaway is still coming and is scheduled for April 2009.
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grantps3 - 515 days 15 hours ago
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gamestop says eight days is too, but i dont think its right.

and yes I THINK that sony will dominate but i think MS plans to unveil halo 4 at one of those, so if thats all they show at lipzeig/TGS, and sony unveils like 5 amazing new titles everybody would say it was a MS victory. but we all know thats just because of stupid fanboys. sony FTW
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Xi - 515 days 14 hours ago
13.1 - don't cout out MS yet
Lionhead - 1 new project
turn 10 - forza 3, pgr5
smith and tinker - new wiesman game
bungie - 1 halo project/2 untitled projects
rare - 1 unnanounced project
wignut interactive - halo chronicles
remedy - alan wake

there's a bunch of MGS stuff happening. Now here come like 50 disagrees because I supported Microsoft on this website. =/
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zo6_lover27 - 515 days 14 hours ago
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I heard that those new projects (not halo) that bungie was working on are going to be multiplatform, MS and bungie aren't getting along these days.
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RememberThe357 - 515 days 12 hours ago
13.3 - Damn...
That list of yours was not impressive at all... Please MS make more games! We're neighbors, you supposed to lend me sugar and stuff!
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thewhoopimen - 515 days 14 hours ago
14 - @Xi
Xi that's 6 vs. 19+ First and 2nd party developers (I don't think NCsoft was mentioned). You don't even need to do the math. 13 extra exclusive games per year to compete against is next to impossible in any game book. Every ONE of MS's games would have to be a 8.5 or above to stand a chance. You are looking at a difference in library content of 52+ titles by the end of year 4. To top that off, everyone of studios are seasoned (with the exception of Media Molecule). MS is already discounted in my book. The fact that they are holding off bungie's announcement for Leizpeg tells me their books are thin.
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harry190 - 515 days 14 hours ago
15 - The Cambridge team I believe
made Primal. So Primal 2?
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badboy808 - 515 days 14 hours ago
15.1 - Is primal any good?
Im thinking about buying it for my ps2
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Figboy - 515 days 11 hours ago
15.2 - just had to chime in:
Primal is a REALLY cool game.

the graphics, characters, atmosphere, and gameplay are all quite good.

it's a shame that it got under-appreciated (like Ghosthunter; developed by Sony, published by Namco), simply because the main character is a hot goth chick, instead of a big titted bimbo who shoots stuff.

the gamestore across the street has Primal for $4 used, as do Blockbuster Videos and so on, so i'm sure, whether you live in the US or not, you can find this game for cheap. at that price, it's certainly worth picking up (try Ghosthunter too. it's like Ghostbusters, starring Nathan Drake as the main character. lol. i say this because the main character reminds me of Nathan Drake from Uncharted. he's voiced by the guy who played Raphael in the 80's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoons. lol. it's also a pretty cheap game).

i'd love to see a sequel to Primal and Ghosthunter, as well as Colony Wars, and War of the Monsters. all those games rocked. throw in Alundra sequels, Sony, and i'm good.
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Maldread - 515 days 6 hours ago
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harry190, Yeah that would be awesome.

badboy808, listen to Figboy. Primal is a great game.
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avacadosnorkel - 515 days 14 hours ago
16 - What gives?
each of these studios should be able to make a game every 2 or 3 years. ...and I'd like to see Clap Hanz make a soccer game.
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thePatriot - 515 days 13 hours ago
16.1 - since it a japan studio
Im hoping that they are working on some kind of a rpg. something unique like folklore. By the way, whats the team that made folklore doing?
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LightningPS3 - 515 days 14 hours ago
17 - good article
Basicly, I ask the same thing. Basicly the question is, "SONY WHAT THE F*CK IS GOING ON?????"

You have Resistance 2, Motorstorm 2, and Little Big planet in 2008 as your confirmed major exclusives.

Am I forgetting something? If so someone tell me please!

...PSN games don't count.

Someone understands my frustration here?
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Bombibomb - 515 days 14 hours ago
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And Disgaea 3, Valkyria Chronicles, Eternal Sonata, Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm, SOCOM: Confrontation, WipEout HD (might be a PSN game but WipEout is legendary)
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LightningPS3 - 515 days 14 hours ago
17.2 - Yeah I know
But come on, Disgaea 3 and Valkyrie Chronicles? I'm thinking of those because PS3 lacks RPG's.

But are those major games that the mainstream are gonna buy or that will push consoles? That's stretching it.
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thewhoopimen - 515 days 14 hours ago
17.3 - @lightning
Transitioning to that cell must be harder than Sony is letting on. But i think that trouble should end by 08. Sony's 08 lineup is better than MS.

If you like zombies you'll have fun with resistances. I'm sure they'll have "zombie" level for you to coop with.

Siren is also a zombie game. yes it a PSN title... but it is definitely a first party title. Just watch the trailers. 8.91GB game.
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