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All Notable Releases For The PS3 In Q3 2010

Meodia lists the biggest games coming to the PS3 platform in Q3 2010. Is it a dry storm like last year? Or does it satisfy as well as Q2 and Q1 did?

NSG5056d ago

A lot of great games, but not that many exclusives. Q4 and Q1 2011 should be monster packed though!

Buying:
Socom 4 (hopefully my GOTY)
Dead Rising 2
Mafia 2
Fear 3
and Ruse on the PC.

At least it's not a dry storm! :)

ipwnall5056d ago

The exclusives are being saved for Q4. Nevertheless, it's a solid summer.

Cloudberry5056d ago

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Only SOCOM 4.

Tight money as usual.

Inside_out5056d ago

WoW...Sony always crying about exclusives and " Only on PS3 " and then they have no games to play. Where would Sony be without the third party support??? M$ said third party support would be critical this gen...lol...right again M$. With the exception of Halo and Gears, the multi-plats are killing the exclusives. M$ is gonna have a HUGE 2010.

Imperator5056d ago

What would you rather have? The best exclusives AND multiplats...or just multiplats? Your comment makes no sense. Yes, third party support is important, but 1st party is even better since it's actually a selling factor. The more exclusives a console has, the more unique it looks and thus more people will get it since it has all the best games and not just multiplats.

raztad5056d ago

@cez

I dont get your point. Look at Sony E3 conference and you will understand how important is third party support for Sony. AC:B, Mafia 2, Dead Space 2, MoH all of them multiplat games consumed a big chunk of the presser.

Sony first/second party studios are pushing boundaries and showing others what can be done on the PS3, but who can dismiss MW2, AC2, RDR and many other multiformat games?

"MS is gonna have a HUGE 2010" why? because the multiplats or because REACH? The same can be said about Sony with GT5 + multiplats.

Again I dont get your point.

TehCellDivision5056d ago

@Imperator.

So, why isn't PS3 topping the Wii? Doesn't it have better exclusives?

TotalPS3Fanboy5056d ago

"So, why isn't PS3 topping the Wii? Doesn't it have better exclusives?"

So, why isn't the 360 topping the Wii? Doesn't it have better third party exclusives?

TehCellDivision5056d ago

@PS3Fanboy

Way to go, twisting my words to avoid the question. Everyone knows Xbox has crappy exclusives and 3rd party generic exlusives, yet, its on 2nd place. But PS3 has godlike exclusives, shouldn't it be on 1st place?

TotalPS3Fanboy5056d ago (Edited 5056d ago )

"Everyone knows Xbox has crappy exclusives and 3rd party generic exlusives..."

Yes. I agreed. Everybody agreed.

"...yet, its on 2nd place..."

Because it comes out 1 year before the PS3, hence, 1 year more worth of sells compare to the PS3. But even though the PS3 came out late, is selling at a faster rate than the 360, year to year.

"But PS3 has godlike exclusives, shouldn't it be on 1st place?"

It came out a year later. So it's catching up to that 1 year gap. And the godlike exclusives are helping, which is why the PS3 is selling at a faster rate than the 360.

Here's the chart:

Year 1
PS3: 1,232,323
360: 1,175,117

Year 2
PS3: 7,586,002
360: 6,726,182

Year 3
PS3: 9,835,903
360: 7,830,726

The godlike PS3 exclusives are helping PS3 narrow the 1 year head start that the 360 got.

Going by this data, you can clearly tell that if the 360 and the PS3 were released in the same year, the PS3 would have won easily.

Spenok5055d ago

Imperator said it for me. Exclusives are what sells people on consoles in the first place. Its not games you can get on any system. Why do you think so many people bought 360's? Halo is one good answer. Its very rare people choose to buy any specific console for a game they can get on either platform.

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FragGen5056d ago

Zipper used their free pass with me on MAG. So, SOCOM4 is no longer a day one for me. I'll wait for the reviews.

I'm still hopeful, though, one great advantage it has over MAG is that you won't need 256 people queued up just to play one game (in retrospect that was not such a great idea, Domination is unplayable in MAG 6mos after release).

Detroitnews5056d ago

Kind of a bad list of games. I'll save my money for GT5, LBP2 and Socom 4.

raztad5056d ago

MAFIA 2 looks promising.

PixelJunk Shooter is a very nice little game.

FragGen5056d ago

+1. Aside from SOCOM4, there's nothing even remotely interesting to me on that list.

As someone who usually gets a game on his B-day in early October, though, I have to tell you, it's like this every year. The super premium titles come out in mid to late October up until late November to hit the Christmas rush in Q4.

The Q3 titles are usually releases trying to get some quick sales in before the big guns get lit up in Q4.

NYC_Gamer5056d ago

only two games on that list catch my attention

1)mafia
2)socom

Inane_Asylum5056d ago

LBP2 and New Vegas have my money...

tynam5056d ago

The only good games on that list are; Dead Rising 2 and Pixel Junk Shooter, Q4 will be the best ever with Gran Turismo 5 and LBP2!!!!!

ipwnall5056d ago

Lol, disagreed. There are many good games on the list, maybe even some sleeper hits.

tynam5056d ago

Im sure there are some other *good* games, but with all the games coming out in Q3 and Q4, i can only afford a few of them, so i'll just be getting the best ones which will be, GT5, LBP2, Dead Rising 2

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Microsoft once tried to nab LittleBigPlanet from Sony after a few drinks

It turns out that many moons ago, Microsoft once had its eye on the Sony published LittleBigPlanet series.

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XiNatsuDragnel2d ago

Microsoft had a good idea but fumbled it again.

Cacabunga22h ago(Edited 22h ago)

Project Spark idea was decent but they quickly gave up ..
LBP was wonderful

ApocalypseShadow1d 16h ago

Microsoft in a nutshell. Always tried to poach Sony employees, games, 3rd party games and devices like the depth camera that was turned into Kinect but was running on PS2 before Xbox 360. Wouldn't be surprised they wanted LBP. Just like they worked behind the scenes pushing the MLB to bring Sony's baseball game to Xbox instead of making their own.
https://www.playstationlife...

They didn't spend years trying to develop their own baseball game. They wanted Sony's game.

They're scum.

Zachmo18221h ago

Microsoft didn't force MLB on Xbox. MLB gave Sony 2 options either go multiplat or risk losing the license.

Rynxie11h ago

And why do you think MLB said that? I believe Ms approached MLB.

ApocalypseShadow10h ago(Edited 10h ago)

Totally ridiculous comment.

The only exclusivity Sony had was to their own creation of The Show. Microsoft could have paid the MLB for the license just like Sony did and made their own baseball game.

Microsoft instead, groomed MLB for years in trying to poach Sony's game and bring it to Xbox. They're worth 3 TRILLION dollars. You think that's not enough money to make their own baseball game? Don't be delusional.

Microsoft spun it like they always do and told the media that they had to trust Sony with their hardware. After they put Sony in that position of not having a choice. Either go multiplatform or stop making one of their successful games. That's a no win scenario.

And what did Microsoft do? They didn't try to sell the game to the Xbox community. They put it on game pass to hurt Sony. Pushing the idea of why buy games that are $70 when you can play them in their cheap service for $10. It was a dirty tactic.

You fell for the Kool aid drink Microsoft served you instead of spitting it out. Hope it tasted good because you were fooled by Phil and the gang.

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Hereandthere2h ago

Xbox executive Sara Bond has told Axios that Microsoft spent a number of years trying to get MLB The Show onto Xbox consoles. And when it finally succeeded in breaking off PlayStation’s long-held exclusivity, the company had to “trust” Sony with pre-release Xbox Series X/S consoles.

Bond revealed that MLB The Show “always came up” in conversations between Microsoft and the Major League Baseball organization. “We always said, ‘We love this game. It would be a huge opportunity to bring it to Xbox.'” she recalled. However, when Microsoft’s efforts materialized, it put the company in an awkward situation where it had to send in pre-release consoles to a rival company.

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Notellin7h ago

"Microsoft instead, groomed MLB for years in trying to poach Sony's game and bring it to Xbox."

Take a nap, conspiracies are rotting your brain.

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Hereandthere2h ago

Xbox executive Sara Bond has told Axios that Microsoft spent a number of years trying to get MLB The Show onto Xbox consoles. And when it finally succeeded in breaking off PlayStation’s long-held exclusivity, the company had to “trust” Sony with pre-release Xbox Series X/S consoles.

Hereandthere2h ago

They were too cheap/inept/lazy to develop their own mlb game, so they port begged for years and bribed the mlb to make the show multiplatform. Like i said many times, xbox brought nothing to the table their 24 years, ZERO.

OtterX1d ago

"However, Healey said Media Molecule wouldn't have felt right doing that, adding it would have been "morally corrupt"."

Major kudos to Media Molecule for being an upright studio with principles.

RNTody1d ago (Edited 1d ago )

Great, more stories like this please. Show the last of the zombies holding the line what we've been saying for years: Microsoft is anti competition, anti industry and has no interest in making games at all.

But hey, at least there's an Xbox Games Showcase to look forward to, right?

Inverno23h ago

Well considering SONY just killed the series, LBP would've been dead by now either way. Though MM probably wouldn't exist by now either, so I'm glad they stayed with SONY, hopefully they don't get shut down any time soon or ever honestly.

Inverno21h ago

They shut down the servers, that's millions of user created levels gone. That and dead are pretty much the same, it's also been years since 3 and they cancelled HUB soooo.

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fsfsxii7h ago

They shutdown the servers because no one was playing, no one in the community cared about the user created levels so why keep them up? Wtf you guys would never succeed in running a business.

Inverno6h ago

Yea dood no one was playing so they shut off the servers. Cause people with enough common sense can't just Google why they were actually shut of, right?

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