Black Ops As a PS3 Exclusive Could Be a Monster

Paul writes, "Call Of Duty has been around long enough now that some serious questions have come to mind and still have gone unanswered. All of the PlayStation owners in one way or another will have no choice but to agree with a lot of these logical and reasonable ideas that should be taken seriously. While the XBOX crowd will turn a blind eye to the truth and come to the defense of almost every flaw."

[dkblackhawk50]

YEah if Teyarch got their buts together and actually worked on the PS3...

[Chris399]

for DLC exclusivity contract (was it for 10 years? I don't recall), that's probably not going to happen.

[Active Reload]

The thing is though, MS holds the hands of 3rd party devs/pubs this gen. So, that has to count for something...

[RedDragan]

This game was never going to be good, no matter if it was even PC exclusive.

[blitz0623]

Sony doesn't need BO. I can already tell KZ3 and R3 will be better

[TheLastGuardian]

It needs a better developer if it wants to be good enough to be a PS3 exclusive.

[BulletToothtony]

if CoD BO would've been a ps3 exclusive it would've gotten 6 and 7s accros the board, no doubt about it.

[InactiveUser]

I'd rather have the Battlefield: Bad Company franchise PlayStation exclusive.

[Soldierone]

I agree Battlefield or anything exclusive out of EA would be better.

HOWEVER COD as a PS3 exclusive would totally kill it. Why? Simply said, the Xbox is what keeps it alive. MS blindly advertises the game as their own, so fanboys buy the game in support of MS and that raises sales. PS3 fanboys buy it to say they get it too, and also because they buy into MS advertising it as the greatest thing since Doom.

you put it as exclusive to PS3 then suddenly its quality standards are raised and if its a third party exclusive Sony wont push it as hard. It would get over shadowed by Resistance and Killzone, MS fanboys would destroy it for all the rampart flaws, and so on. It would die within a year.

[FinalSpartan]

wait a second ..one most hated games amongst PS3 fanboys, because it overshadows their exclusives such as Killzone, Resistance. If its exclusive then suddenly will be great?

Blacks Ops not better then COD 4. Actually not that even great. PS3 got much better shooters. Killzone 3 is coming. If COD was exclusive would be big, but wouldn't help quality wise.

[Spitfire_Riggz]

Who said it would suddenly be great? Probably be garbage like always

[jwk94]

I think it'd be better because they wouldn't half ass port it to the ps3 with so many problems, hell the game doesn't even have to be a ps3 exclusive either port it well, or make it on the ps3 first then port it to the 360 therefore none of the consoles have problems.

[nskrishna2]

Nobody said COD will be great if its a PS3 game...
Infact i don't even want it on my console...Activision can keep selling that crap to morons...CounterStrike and Killzone are hell lot better..

[blahblah]

i can name few exclusives done really bad and name few multiplats done good. article author is a fanboy. being exclusive doesn't make game good, research, testing and nitpicking do. how do these stupid news even reach public space

even if they'd goldplate those exclusive CoD game boxes, i'd still hate it. but so i hate every fps, no matter if exclusive or not.

only fps kind of game i can't hate is mirrors edge.

[yesah]

Guys Guys, everyone has diffrent tastes. Some like killzone some like cod but u cant expect everyone to like what you like and you cant think the thing u like is 'right' and everyone elses is 'wrong' we play games for fun, not to sit and talk about how our tastes are better.

I have a ps3 and i love black ops, i hate killzone cause its gay and stupid and my likes are whats right.

the writer of this article is a retard because biger maps and more people would change the style of the game, it would make it slower and less intense, and he is writing it like he knows wtf. but he doesnt at all

[gunnerforlife]

noooo thanks lol
id rather have Killzone and Resistance
than Black ops, i don't want half assed shooters that don't take advantage of my chosen console

[FinalSpartan]

exactly. I thoughts what if Killzone had the attention of COD? Bear in mind Killzone 2 MP IMO was much better then COD! was really fun.

[vickers500]

After playing the KZ3 MP beta, I can honestly say I'm not looking forward to it in the slightest now. I'll still get it day one, but just so it can tide me over until Resistance 3 comes out.

Resistance 3 is my most anticipated shooter, and I don't think Killzone can/will ever match the amount of fun I had with Resistance 1.

[starcb26]

Didn't KZ2 win best online shooter on gamespot?

[punkpop101]

And why should we care about your choosen console?

[-Mezzo-]

Agreed, it could be a monster (Activision) should really think about it.

[tacosRcool]

Well that won't happen since Activision doesn't like Sony

[sobekflakmonkey]

although i agree with your comment, and im a huge sony fanboy, that article was fucking stupid, the map size of call of dutys maps is what makes it call of duty, its arcady and fast, Blops sucked a dick yeah, we all know that, but MW2 was almost godly let alone MW the first...all in all killzone/resistance/call of duty...completely different styles of shooter...that article was retarded...

[DeFFeR]

"Blops sucked a dick yeah, we all know that, but MW2 was almost godly let alone MW the first"

MW2... godly?

What are you injecting into your veins - must be good shit dude, hook us up.

[Undeadwolfy]

@above,
LOL epic

[Areeb11]

This statement could potentially be true for any Multi-plat

[Hitman0769]

That would be great but I don't see it happening any time soon, I was hoping for at least stability this time but I guess we won't get that either on XBOX or PS3? Maybe next gen will bring a better Call of Duty...

[MGRogue2017]

Well duh...

Blu-Ray disc = More content.. longer single-player, more weapons, more levels & maps in multi-player, etc etc..

[darx]

No it doesn't, I'd say that it all depens on the developer. Blu-ray has nothing to do with it.

[punisher99]

"No it doesn't, I'd say that it all depens on the developer. Blu-ray has nothing to do with it."

So having a lot more disc space has nothing to do with the option of having a longer game??

[skip2mylou]

lol hypocrite darx

[ct03]

There are games that come on multiple discs (e.g. Mass Effect 2). If the game had been supposed to be longer, they would have made it longer. Plain and simple.

[mastiffchild]

Seriously, a FPS? What FPS NEEDS two discs? None. AAAND if it were Acti the cost alone of pressing up and packaging two discs instead of one would be an immediate cost they would cut like they have made their devs miss out on QA,betas and dedicated servers even though their ad budget is TWICE dev budget and the games are the market leading shooters and more profitable than just about anything else in the known universe.

An Acti game they can squeeze onto one disc ever going on two? Seriously? Also,I can't believe we're imagining COD ever being exclusive to a Sony platform. There's hypothetical and there's deluded.

[duplissi]

@ct03

not quite, microsoft charges royalties for EVERY DISK of every game made for the xbox so a game with 2 disks ms gets twice as much out of the pie. so a lot of devs avoid going on to too many disks to have a larger profit margin in fact ID wants rage on as few disks as possible for this very reason.

[sobekflakmonkey]

i get what your saying @darx because honestly i dont think they would make the games any longer or include any more maps or anything, theyre to lazy as a developer to give you a campaign any longer than 6 hours and they WANT people to pay $15 for map packs that really arent worth $15.

[MUHAHAHAHAAHAHA]

why have you got disagrees is somebody that retarded ??!?

[iamgoatman]

Maybe because he's wrong? A crazy notion I know...

Content rarely has anything to do with disc size. It's solely down to the developer and how much effort they put into something. Most PS3 exclusives barely make use of a blu-ray as it is, even games like like GT5 use under 20GB of space, so by his logic they should have used that extra space for even more content, right? But in the real world, development costs play a big factor in how much a developer can put into a game, as well as well as various deadlines they must aim to meet.

Also take Halo Reach for example, (before you jump down my throat I'm not a Halo fan) has a very substantial amount of content with it's various different modes etc, way more so than a lot of PS3 shooters, yet that uses a standard DVD9.

If the game was exclusive to the PS3 and thus could make use of the extra space on offer, doesn't mean a developer can or will use it. Storage mediums don't effect the quality of a game at all. It's about time people realise that blu-ray doesn't magically make a game better.

[MUHAHAHAHAAHAHA]

Jimmy Riddle

Yes but he said you can fit more content onto a blu ray than a dvd how in any way is that wrong?

[poopface1]

why did uncharted 2 only have 7 multiplayer maps? Blu Ray?

Why was heavenly sword a short single player only game? was it blu Ray? Nope.

Devs need more time to create that content to fill the disks. The content doesnt create itself simply because you have more disk space.

they didnt have the time to create a longer game for black ops. if it was a longer game they would still be making it right now. Activision isnt goign to give them more time to fill up a blu- ray.

[phatak]

y do u just talk about the worst examples? talk about mgs4 ? blu ray? gt 5 blu ray?
god of war 3? blu ray?

[TKCMuzzer]

Really, just look at the quality of Uncharted 2's single player compared to Black Ops. Graphics, sound , cinematic, length are all far superior. They stream the textures from blu ray in U2 and it shows.

[maxcer]

i was about to make the same type of comment you did here.

these fanboys think just because you have room on a blyray disc means its going to be used.

@phatak - yea mgs4 with so much space used for video. and you list games that have taken 3-5 years in development time. millions of dollars that might not be made back in the long run. you can't run a business like that for very long before the higher ups start asking the big question. How long can we sustain these huge development costs only to be disappointed with the sales.?

[KotC]

How has DVD9 shortened the length of games? Just name one true example, please.

Have any of you played?
Borderlands
Fallout 3
Bioshock
FEAR
The Orange Box
Oblivion
Castlevania
Dead Space
Read Dead
GTAIV
Red Faction
Ninja Gaiden
DMC
Resident Evil
Dead Rising

Those games range from 10 to 100 hours, some with multiplayer.

[DeFFeR]

Mass Effect
Dragon Age

just to add to the list.

[Eamon]

lol, castlevania isn't a good example as it uses 2 Discs

but I get your point.

[poopface1]

I installed borderlands on my 360 back in the day, and it was only 3.2 GBs.

[Kain81]

Look at this Pic and tell me what went wrong this Gen http://www.digitalbattle.co...

[SixZeroFour]

easy...1993 one looks to be for an adventure game (meant to be explored) 2010 one is for an fps game (meant to be from point a to point b, usually) lol

[poopface1]

the original doom games had complex and confusing maps.

[Active Reload]

I dig what you're saying, but I've never seen a military shooter with complex levels like that first pic. But the second pic is dead on give away for those types of games. That first pic is left for the Sci-fi enthusiasts, lol. As a matter of fact, if you have Wii, pick up...all Metroid games, if you can. On the 360 you can go with Shadow Complex.

[Eamon]

Kain81. That is exactly how I feel.

Call of Duty has been reusing the cheap hollywood thrills since COD4. And COD4 had the least out of them ironically.

That is what attracted a lot of people to the franchise. People foolishly think they're experiencing what it's like to be a "soldier" but in reality it's just the "summer action film version."

No more skill involved in the single player. You just need to know how to shoot, cover and run.

[booni3]

It probably could have made use of the utility that the PS3 has that the xbox doesn't, but just about any multiplat exclusively for Ps3 would be a monster.

[jaredhart]

Would never happen

[Arup02]

The single player could be better. But i find the multiplayer experience more satisfying on the 360

[TKCMuzzer]

It seems slower on the 360 but apart from that there is nothing.

I have played both before I get disagrees. All I'm saying is I had to alter my turn speed on the 360.

[iamgoatman]

How do you mean slower?

In terms of performance they both run at 60FPS, but if you mean a slower turn speed it's probably just down to different acceleration methods used for the different game controllers, but that's what the option is there for.

I don't think one is just inherently slower than the other.

[SixZeroFour]

lmao...this has to be a joke article right?

1. disconnects
just because uncharted 2 rare or never had any disconnection issues, it would be better as a ps3 exclusive? same could be said with halo reach couldnt it? i rarely get disconnected, unless i actually quit the match (only if over half my team leaves)

2. max players
do all fps exclusive games on ps3 have over 60 players playing in a match? cause if not, this isnt a valid argument, cause usually it would have an issue with balance (and cod is already bad with that, add more ppl and it will get worse)

3. map size
the size of the maps depend on the type of the game...there is no reason for their to be massive maps if its a run and gun type gameplay, especially one without vehicles...no one wants to run for a minute before they find someone, also adding bigger maps will just make the snipers and campers more rampant

4. bullet collision detection
again, just cause one ps3 exclusive game doesnt have the problem doesnt speak for the rest of them...that is just the dev teams problem, not the hardware itself

5. graphics
ill give that one to him, cause there is no denying that ps3 games have some of the best graphics out there
----
so i came up with 1/5 reasons are valid...most of most of his arguments are having to do with game design by the developers, and has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with the hardware in ps3 compared to the opposition...ill give 2 reason why it wouldnt be as big of a monster as this journalist thinks

1. ps3 players
as far as im aware...its only been the ps3 players (8000+ if i remember correctly) that signed a petition to get a refund from activision (i commend them for doing that, but i highly doubt anything will happen from it, they should have known what they were buying and i would have given it atleast a week after release to find out its problems)

2. sales
it sells better on 360 alone rather than ps3

[TheDarkness]

wow i would never write something That long on this site.

[Active Reload]

Thats nothing. If you know how to type, something like that only takes a few minutes, if that.

[SixZeroFour]

yea...lol, the longest part of writing that, was going back and forth between this and the article to see what his arguments were

[iamgoatman]

At least he used paragraphs, and with headers too!

I've seen people post around the same amount of text, but in one massive block with a handful of full stops scattered through-out.

[S2580]

i disagreed just for the effort you went to writing that

[never_waste_a_bullet]

haha dick.

[SixZeroFour]

lmao...its all good, i stopped caring about the agree/disagree system...its so flawed

would be so much better if you had to write something after you clicked a/d in order for it to go through, and it showed which you clicked...it would stop those phantom disagreers and make them give a reason for clicking or at least show their account

[Snatcher]

This is a website that contains articles, blogs, reviews and forum. If you don't like to read a lot of text, maybe this place isn't for you.

This website is great. But the community can be assholes sometimes.

[iamgoatman]

If you were forced to write something after agreeing/disagreeing, every comments board would be a wash with spam and 1 word comments.

But I do agree the system is flawed. I'd like to see who was actually disagreeing with me, not for any real purpose, just to know who hit and ran.

[TKCMuzzer]

Re check my friend. It only sells better in the US on the 360. Have a check, in Europe alone black Ops has sold more on the PS3

[blahblah]

shame you included sales in your post. kinda always starts fanboy flamewars (true or not). but, still i'm a ps3 fanboy and agree.

game quality has never anything with exclusive/multi factor. if developer halfassed the game, game is halfassed. same as map size, nr of players... they are just how dev choosen in development process. online traffic doesn't eat lot of processing power.

[SixZeroFour]

i wasnt trying to start a fanboy war...i was just trying to say that if it were only to be sold on a single platform that it sold better on 360 worldwide (but i think it was only 60/40 split so not much different)

the ONLY reason a call of duty game would be better if it was exclusive to one platform, not just ps3, even if it was 360 only, would be because they wouldnt have to split resources versus time...they would be able to spend more time on the single platform, thus producing a better product

[StarScream4Ever]

Considering that most PS3 are young adults and smart about games on their consoles... They won't waste another $60 for same ol' COD like last year and the year before.

[Commander_TK]

Well, u do know that the two best selling games on the PS3 r COD games?

[StarScream4Ever]

Unless it's another title besides COD then I won't spoke about it.

[DeFFeR]

that makes no sense SS4E...

w/e - keep thinking that you're smarter than everyone in the world because you own only a PS3...

The core fanbase of 360 and PS3 are very similar... that is why multiplat games sell well on both...

[Eamon]

ROFLMAO!!! Loved Commander_TK's comment + Bubbles.

Chances are Starscream4Ever is still in his early teens.

[Ahasverus]

A monster that YOU, midless games, created

[HeavenlySnipes]

bother buying it. BLck Ops is f'n shit. Funny that I just got off my PS3 after waiting 10 minutes while the game "migrating hosts".

I've seen "Notice - Game Lobby Closed" more times than I have actually played the game.

[Focker420]

I stopped playing Black Ops when GT5 came out. I haven't cared about going back to it. I'm definitely trading it in next week for DC Universe.

[birdy966]

Well if i was sony i would just take the leap and buy cod exclusivity for a couple of billion, yeah alot of money but the ps3 sales in the next few years and then the inevitable other exclusive games sales would more than make up for it

[Ripyealip]

"if i was sony i would just take the leap and buy cod exclusivity for a couple of billion"

WOOOOOW a couple of billion?! call of duty doesnt even sell 2 billion copy's and you think sony would buy cod exclusive for a couple billion? they'd be losing mooooolah

[jetlian]

past 2 games have made over a billion each. sony would have to pay over 3 billion atleast.

[Ripyealip]

@jetlian yea i kno but for the whole cod series or just one game? and id say 2 billion cuz the development cost isnt really that big and it will probly sell 1 billion. but doesnt sony only get payed for hardware sold not software.besides 3 billion is like the money to buy out a developer. so the development cost goes for half the billion and the sales go for the other half but if its exclusive then it wont sell as much as the other games.so the they should buy exclusivity for 1 billion. this way they wont lose money. only people losing money is the studio.but than again they must give em a hefty pay check for exclusivity so they should really buy for 1.5 billion.sony might lose money on the first game sold but the next one they wont.

In conclusion this wont happen cuz the studio would lose money. unless they go the way of sony first party studio's - its not about the money its about making the best game you could.

[jetlian]

sony wants the ip they need 3 billion minimum .If they want just 1 game they still would have to buy the expected amount of sales 360 could have made.

MW2 sold 12 million on 360 alone even at 40 bucks your looking at 480 million then add 10-20 million to produce.

so in short sony would need to sell atleast 12 million to break even!! Rockstar was scared RDR wouldn't meet the 5 million sales it needed

[Ripyealip]

@jetlian I agree

[DigitalRaptor]

This is a stupid article. It's fine being hypothetical, but you've gotta be realistic:

Firstly, there will never be a Call of Duty game that is exclusive to PS3. And Black Ops is multiplatform.

The main Call of Duty crowd is on the Xbox 360, and a company like Activision is not gonna do an exclusive because they want as much money as possible --> multiplatform.

And a developer like Treyarch is not gonna go the extra mile to optimise their game for PS3 development. Their Black Ops graphics engine just looks really outdated and terrible. They just aren't that good of developers.

[AKissFromDaddy]

That's true

[spec_ops_comm]

I agree.

Can we please stop approving Examiner.com articles? They are often extremely stupid and very poorly written.

[Sigh]

EA and Sony work well together and with Respawn Entertainment (Ex-Infinity Ward) with EA now, they could do something similar with PS3 exclusive DLC like how Microsoft and Activision are partnering up with COD DLC.

[birdy966]

lol, the ultimate master plan

[AKissFromDaddy]

That makes sense.

[birdy966]

yes, yes it does

[Mudkipz]

Would be better on the wii

[xX TriiCKy Xx]

I lol'ed.

[FrigidDARKNESS]

this article is totally laughable do he really thinks Activision will totally ignore the 360 gamer base and lose millions consequently billions of dollars in revenues on a COD franchise.

[egm_hiphopgamer]

COD on PS3 only that will seal the deal for a console victory for real that a be huge for Sony too bad they lost that opportunity, this could've bean a reality with the first modern warfare

[Active Reload]

Yeah, that would've been huge for Sony, but in reality-they never had the opportunity. COD has always been a monster on the 360. Hell, wasn't COD 3 exclusive to the 360 when it launched in 2005?

[FrigidDARKNESS]

no the game being exclusive on the 360 would be a reality.

[Father Murder X]

It is hasn't happened now its never going to happen.

[Motorola]

Eh, I dont want it. Less people may play KZ2, but i still like it better. More skill than Black Ops by FAR.

[Raven_Nomad]

This is a flawed article. I enjoy the smaller matches in COD. I play and buy on XBox 360 and PS3 because I have friends with both. I cannot stand playing with even the 18 players, it's too many people and with everyone out for themselves for the most part it's hard to get a quality game in.

Secondly, the party system isn't as flawed as the article would have people believe. Personally I'm fed up with sequels to begin with, I'd love for new IP's to catch on, but with game prices so costly people are afraid to dump $64 on a new game when they can dump it on a sequel that will at least be marginally good.

I personally think new IP's should release at a lower price point to get the games out. Metro 2033 would be a perfect example of an amazing game that hardly anyone talks about or plays. It's really well done, online is nice but the online community isn't active.

I'm not usually one to put down articles but this one was way off base.

*Happy New Year*

[bobtheimpaler]

Uh No thanks. The call of Duty games are among the worst designed games I've ever played. When you compare these games to the likes of Killzone, Halo and Bioshock, the call of duty games are stupid and outdated because everything in SP is too scripted, has really shit AI and MP is broken, unbalanced and riddled with bugs. What I like about Killzone and Halo is that the enemies are actually smart and the same gunfight can be different everytime, creating those fun and unique memorable moments. Rather than relying on scripted events that get old fast.

The COD games are completely shit on an artistic and technical level. If they were PS3 exclusives I still wouldn't buy them because it wouldn't make them better designed games over night.

I don't get why these shitty and poorly designed games are so popular when there are devs who consistently pump out much better games.

[xstation79]

It would make more sense for call of duty to be a 360 exclusive. They could forget about trying to keep up with the other platforms and focus purely on keeping it working good on the 360

[GoldPS3]

It will have dedicated servers that's for sure.

[maxcer]

why would Treyarch bust out the cash for servers now after millions of people are guaranteed to pick up the game?

[Father Murder X]

The question has to be asked Would Cod be as big as it is if is was exclusive to one system. That answer is no.

[Snatcher]

What's up with this website. I read an article from same website a couple hours ago... guess what the headline was...

''Kratos already in MK9, Yoshi and Sonic next?''

[DiRtY]

[insert random huge franchise] as an exclusive on [random platform] will be huge.

Is this worth an article? If so, gaming journalism is on a new low.

GTA V as an exclusive on Xbox 360 will be huge!
Assassin's Creed as an exclusive on PS3 will be huge!

Really, there is no point. Heck, Black Ops will sell 10 million on Xbox 360 alone and create a 500 million USD revenue. No way any publisher will just deal with those losses.

[ME1989]

Examiner is one of the biggest flamebait sites I've ever seen. Lord have mercy. Look at his reasonings:

1.) "If it was exclusive, it could have bigger maps like Resistance 2 with 60 players:"
Well....Frontlines: Fuel of War was multi-plat and could have up to 50 players in a match...

2.) "Small maps. If it was exclusive, it could have big maps like Killzone 2!"
....has this guy not played Bad Company 2? The maps are huge. Hell Frontlines: Fuel of War had massive maps.

3.) "Bullet hit detection is bad"
You HAVE to be trolling here...how the hell would being exclusive make the hit detection better? This is the DEVELOPER'S FAULT.

*facepalm* The answer? It's not exclusivity that makes any game amazing, it's the developer and talent behind it. That's all there is to it.

I welcome the stealth disagrees.

[TKCMuzzer]

I think he is trying to say that Sony would use dedicated servers for better connection therefore allowing better hit detection. Whether you like it or not the dedicated servers Sony offer are far superior to the p2p crap used elsewhere. As for melee on cod it's so poor it's untrue. Quite frankly COD HAS MADE GAMERS LAZY. If you don't think so they then that means aim assist is your friend.

[ME1989]

Again, this is up to the publisher and developer. Frontlines: Fuel of War used dedicated servers, and the upcoming Gears of War 3 will use dedicated servers too.

[madjedi]

@shinobi not sure why you have 3 disagrees.

I think thats what people seem to forget about ps3 exclusives like gow3, uc2, k2 ect they aren't great games just because they are ps3 exclusives, but because of the developers than make them.

I honestly hope no ps3 fans believe that the cod series would be so much better, gameplay or graphically if it were exclusive to the ps3, if you do slap yourself with your dualshock for stupidity.

Although i'll give the author credit for getting one thing right, if any series is hurting badly for some sony 1st party magic, it's definitely call of duty.

2 games in a row and both are broken/almost online, i guess all the money for dedicated servers and quality assurance is used to buy kotick drugs and hookers or something.

And you cod fools are surprised every year, when activison gives you a broken game and yells gotcha, but maybe i am just prejudiced against cod. :P

[IPUMPMYGUN]

It's not a matter of being exclusive, it's about trying hard and investing more time into both consoles to make them preform at same level.

I suppose Call of Duty is developed on Windows and Treyarch would have an easier time developing it on the Xbox 360, since they share similar hardware and software? Or is this a matter of sabotage on Treyarch part orchestrated by Microsoft?

[gypsygib]

They pretty much did before Oops

[SKUD]

Failed troll is FAIL.

[IPUMPMYGUN]

Too be honest, I could careless about the Call of Duty franchise. I own only two games of the series and I don't play them often. To me, Call of Duty is a time waster for an hour and I go on about my life.

[TKCMuzzer]

Simple. COD is a money whore. Activision give a company a two year deadline and tell them it's being released no matter what. The developers have little time to optimize the game for all formats so pick one (money changes hands).
Activision are to blame for CODS downfalls as they don't care about the product itself. They added a fiver to the price because they felt the product deserved it but since then the quality has diminished. Activision are a gaming problem that people need to speak about. Their like EA of the past.
I like COD but at times it's a complete mess and quite frankly a game you could get kills in whilst playing blindfolded, to me that's not skill and therefore you learn little. Therefore, makes gamers lazy.

[GameTavern]

This reads less like why Call of Duty should be exclusive, and more like an article that has an issue with the Call of Duty games as a whole.

[prodigal_twit]

Ugh! 'COD' becoming a PS3 exclusive??? No thanks. That's the last thing we need.....

[Neko_Mega]

As it would nice to see it as a PS3 only game (not counting PC) and seeing them try harder at making the game run better.

I like to see more work on kicking cheaters off then anything, because that is the reason I haven't waste money on buyinh this game. When you shot someone in the head they should die and not turn around an shot you.

[Ratchet510]

if cod was exclusive it will play like a real next gen FPS with amazing graphics and it will have a lot more content in it like mass effects 2 on ps3 has more.

[jro211]

It has long been speculated that the Xbox is holding back the Playstations potential. Don't believe it? Then way are PS3 exclusives Resistance 2, Killzone 2, and Uncharted 2 looking so much better than Xbox exclusives? When you develop for multiple systems you are restricted to the minimum standards of the least powerful system...unless you are going to actually take the time to develop, harness, and use the power of the superior system; and that's not happening. At least not at the same time. Mass Effect 2 looks so much better on PS3 and it is coming out a year later after it's release on the Xbox.

[iamgoatman]

Yes, because all that matters is the graphics right?

The reason certain PS3 exclusives (not all) look better is because Sony can and do invest heavily in the develop of their their first party games, pumping in larges sums of money so proprietary engines can be developed the use the hardware to it's full potential. Also various methods in utilizing the system are shared amongst developers, so other devs don't have to spend lengthy period of time learning how to code for the system.

In reality, both consoles are relatively similar in terms of power, with each being better at different things, with the PS3 showing better performance when coded for specifically, and the 360 normally faring better during multiplatform development and porting due to it being easier to code for. One isn't vastly superior to the other, both have a standard resolution of 720p in 99% of games, as well as 30FPS also being the norm for both systems.

Plus I never understood the logic behind how the 360 is somehow holding the PS3 back when the PS3 version is inferior to the former, surely it should be the other way round? I agree that the PS3 version should be up to standard with the 360 version, but don't see how the 360 being the very slightly less powerful system is making the other version worse than said original version.

Activision just have no intensive to spend large amount of time and money learning to code for the PS3 so they are on par with exclusive, no multiplat developer does, it's just not cost effective. But that's not to say that releasing a bug riddled mess is right.

Oh and your last part doesn't make much sense, surely an extra year of development would yield better results, and not be detrimental? Plus the differences are tiny, compared to the PC version they're pretty much the same.

[jro211]

I'd agree with you if it wasn't for the fact that the companies that develop exclusively to the PS3 have said on several occasions that they haven't come close to tapping the full potential of the PS3. When they push the limits (assuming that what they say is true) we should see much better games in terms of graphics and content. You said it yourself, developers have spent money learning the coding. Don't you think the games would be up to par, if not exceed the 360 if they were proficient in PS3 coding? As for my comment about Mass Effect 2, I'll have to find the article, but I swore I read the developers made comments about how there were things they could do with the PS3 that they couldn't do with the Xbox. For one they could add all the extra content on one disc.

[DarthJay]

I've read some dumb stuff here, but this article may be one of the worst. Give me a controller that doesn't feel like a piece of garbage before you start trying to take multi-platform games as exclusives.

But that is getting past the hilarious points about bigger maps. newsflash: that's not what COD is all about. The size of the maps has absolutely NOTHING to do with getting the game on 360. Even if this was PC only, they'd be the same size because... surprise surprise, that's what the developers wanted.

Oh, and Killzone 2 was one of the worst games I ever played. PS3 does one thing better than 360 and that's handle Blu Ray. If HDDVD won the war, PS3 wouldn't even exist anymore. I used to wonder what all the PS3 fanboys were on about, then I bought a PS3 and I'm still trying to figure it out. The thing is collecting dust until DCU comes out. So far, total waste of money.

[madjedi]

"Give me a controller that doesn't feel like a piece of garbage" subjective dumbass i think the 360 controller was designed by a retard with analogues but thats just my opinion.

"Killzone 2 was one of the worst games I ever played." I know i felt the same way about halo.

"PS3 does one thing better than 360 and that's handle Blu Ray." Again not smart enough to put in my opinion, since that is all they are.

" If HDDVD won the war, PS3 wouldn't even exist anymore. I used to wonder what all the PS3 fanboys were on about, then I bought a PS3 and I'm still trying to figure it out. The thing is collecting dust until DCU comes out. So far, total waste of money." No bitter dumbass if hddvd had one the war, ps3 games would still be on brs, sony still might have released it studios movies on br, and ps3's would still be made to this day.

So you bought a console don't like any of the games on it and it sits unused, clearly it is not ps3 fanboys fault you are not smart enough to sell the console to someone or trade it in for store credit ect.

Even i am not a fanboy enough to say all 360 exclusives are not interesting, crackdown looked fun as hell, as did a few other games.

There is being pro a certain console and then there is being pro a certain while making yourself look like an idiot,

[DarthJay]

That was hysterical. History proves you are wrong. If Sony was losing money on Blu Ray, they wouldn't make it anymore. HDDVD went away because it wasn't making money anymore, not because PS3 had a Blu Ray. If HDDVD won, Blu Ray would have been extinct, just like HDDVD is now, like beta max was before it and the eight track before that. It's just the way it works.

Great, we're in agreement, Halo sucks balls, Killzone sucks balls, whoopty doo!

Why would I sell the console because I don't like one exclusive, especially when I bought it for DC Universe Online? And MLB The Show? Wait, aren't those the exclusives? Hmmm.

And yes, the PS3 controller is a piece of crap. The triggers feel like I am going to break them. One of the biggest reason I don't play any of the games I have for it is because I don't want to use the controller. I'd get into the retardation of the dashboard, how poorly the PS Store is designed and a litany of other things that the PS3 does wrong, but they were irrelevant to the topic at hand, so I stuck with dumb article is dumb.

[BullCrap]

Keep hearing PC this, PC that. But truth is very few people actualy play on PC due to all the restrictions placed on PC gaming from good ole MS and the massive deferences in hardware people have. Why PC gaming will always be mediocore and never compare to a system with set specs and developers not being limited by catering to the lowest specs for best sales, versus maxing out there talents on static specs and ensuring the best quality possible to even rival the lowest sprc limitations on a PC market.

[rob6021]

Bigger and more players doesn't = better game. I do agree that PlayStation fans seem to be much more critical of their games, and Call of Duty may have made more progress if it had to overcome specific negative feedback, instead of generalized hate cause it's popular. I think CoD could have been a better game as an exclusive, but it wouldn't have made more money as one, and that's really what matters to most publishers.

[neoandrew]

To be honest, this is an ps3 fanboy only opinion, i looks like he try to prove that if it would be only ps3 game it would be so much batter... but this is just bulls*it, he wants only distract the FACT the ps3 version is THE WORST, and somehow he trys to defend this platform, games that he refers on ps3 are games that nearly no body doesn't play online anymore and this games are no near to multi player fun that offer BO, playing cod:bo is just a pain on ps3 an that is a FACT, suck it or stop bi*ching.

[cstyle]

Black ops as a exclusive to ps3 will never happen. Not when it sells so much better on xbox360. It has more of a chance being exclusive to 360 than ps3. Reasons are so obvious. Face it... the game industry is no longer about the consoles from Japan.

[Darth_Bane79]

Please god never allow that POS franchise to ever be a PS3 exclusive!!! If something, I wouldn't mind if they just kept it on the crapbox than having them insult us PS3 users with a poor version again. Just glad I didn't waste my money on that stupid game.

Sony 4 Life!

[NeloAnjelo]

They've already screwed over PS3 gamers enough. So COD can die for all I care. PS3 owners have got KZ, Resistance, and Socom... Plus all the other multiplats. I hate COD and everything that its done to the gaming Industry. And no I won't elaborate because it will seem like a rant. My last COD was MW and WAW. There has been two more since, with the same imbalanced and glitchy gameplay, yet the game and maps cost more? Wake up gamers.

[OdinFallen]

This article was terrible, it was just complaints and no points.

[Der_Kommandant]

We dont need that shit

[N4OGs]

They broke, cheap, are not gamers, and are fanboys and they wouldnt buy a ps3 even if x360 only had just one game halo. Right now the x360 only has like 2 games lol so they really close to just having one game and yet these non gamers try and hype the x360 and downplay the ps3. Anyone downplaying the ps3 at this point is not a gamer and doesnt care about gaming.

[Whackedorange]

This franchise would never improve aslong that the developers have a publisher named Activision cause all they care about is your weekly pay.

Since there is alot of fps players on ps3 now i expect that when killzone 3 comes out it will match the sales of cod and if it is indeede better it should frankly sale better, much better

[Gamer112]

Will never happen sorry to burst your bubble.

[madjedi]

Have you even read the f*cking comments most ps3 owners are saying, it's basically a unanimous i don't want that pos a ps3 exclusive. It sucks as a mp game, it'll still suck as an exclusive.

[gumgum99]

ugh!

Twisted Metal ftw.

[blakstarz]

I'd rather have Infinity Ward make a exclusive to PS3 rather than Teyarch since they seem to have made a better effort in make sure the PS3 version to MW2 wasn't too much of a monstrosity.

[JuLiAn18D7]

But I'm not blinded like this idiot. 1. The party system has nothing to do with it being a non-exclusive it has to do with Treyarch being lazy and stupid.. 2. 12 players is probably what they want. I love resistance 1 and hate 2 because its so freakin chaotic with 60 players and they changed everything! 3. The maps are MEANT to be like that. If you want big maps play battlefield! Thats on both systems isn't it? Blinded fanboys smh. I rest my case.

[JuLiAn18D7]

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[rjgbyrne]

Black Ops is great on Xbox and PS3. If it was exclusive they could pump out a marginally better product for both machines. Xbox does have its own unique architecture too. This fanboy crud is not worth anything. If, if, if... if me auntie had bullocks she'd be me uncle! Get over it, play the game a move own. I like Uncharted and enjoyed playing it but have played many other Xbox games, heck even DS games more. MS have always been great with 3rd party developers helping out where they can, Sony is not as intimate but that has changed a bit. Fact is, Black Ops is a fine game on either console. I have the Xbox version purely so I can loan family and friends my copy but the PS3 version is just as good. Activision are not in bed with microsoft, they are on the floor next to them but EA is so far up Sony's backside they even smell Nutty! I HATE all of the exclusive crap from both sides, MS has stopped it and good choice I think. Sony ar now paying for exclusive content from 3rd parties. Who cares, they are just games. If it actually meant something to anybody moaning about platform differences these people need to get a life. Watch the Aussie movie Bad Boy Bubby to see what I think these fanboys will become, harumph!

[OC_MurphysLaw]

Not rain on your rant....but MS just locked up all the COD dlc for the next few years as timed exclusive content for MS back at E3. So yeah....both are still playing the exclusivity card.

[rjgbyrne]

I play campaigns, not the multiplayer side of COD:BO so I wouldn't miss this at all. Xbox live players pay a subscription fee and over-priced content. Heck its not exclusive, its a money grab PS3 players can do without. Its another example of Corporate Greed.

[Hozi89]

COD could be better, yes...But PS3 don't need it at all. We've got our hands full with much more amazing Shooters on the horizon to worry about COD.

Killzone 3
Resistance 3
Socom 4
Crysis 2
Rage

Although the last two are multiplat. I'm sure they will play much better on PS3 than COD:BO.

[Muffins1223]

ummm if its gonna be exclusive it would be on xbox version

[OC_MurphysLaw]

Examiner articles are all about getting site hits. These guys get paid per site hit literaly. I am sure tomorrow we will see a different article from this clown saying "Black Ops on the 360 exclusively would be huge!".

[OC_MurphysLaw]

Disagree?....why? It's the truth. A friend wrote briefly for the Examiner. All he kept saying was click on my article as he got paid per click. They are all contracted writers that don't have a salary...straight commission..hence why most articles from them tend to be short and broken up in parts.

[MonopolyRSV]

Technically it's Sony's fault that COD isn't an exclusive. They had the opportunity to acquire their studio but turned it down, remember?

[madjedi]

Thats the thing if it was a sony exclusive from the beginning, you wouldn't have as many as you currently have ala infinity ward & treyarc. Two it wouldn't be anywhere near as popular, the sales nowhere near as high, the quality likely on par with k2/u2 at least graphics wise.

The biggest reason is they wouldn't be like the current cod series no money hungry activison involved to market the hell out of cod. And force the games to either be released before it should or strong arm the studio/s to rehash the same game yr after yr, and not allow the developer to try new things/improve on the series.

[Gamer_Z]

I don't care about COD anymore, COD4 is the best and from what I've seen it's going to stay like that. Infinity Ward is gone and with their departure from Activision means that there will never be a COD as awesome as COD4.

[XabiTheHumble]

Do not want.

[Pootangpie]

I mean it's not like we have had a couple dozen if these BS articles before RIGHT? :I

[BetaChris]

Regardless of the potential reasons Activision *could* make Black Ops - or, for that matter, any of the other titles in the COD series - a PS3 Exclusive, should they? The answer, as far as I'm concerned, is a resounding no. I have no doubt the franchise could improve if it were specific to one platform, but not enough to effectively triple the sales (which, from a business standpoint, is what Activision would need to warrant single console exclusivity).

To the contrary, a big budget title such as Black Ops does - and will continue to - serve Activision best as a multiplatform title. In the end, it comes down to simple economics - especially, in situations such as COD, where each respective port is often done by the same team, with the same budget. Why use the allocated funds for a single version of the game, and be limited to revenue for that one console, when the same budget could be used to produce 3 (or more) games of the same name on 3 different platforms? What incentive does Activision (or anyone else) have as a publisher to spend the same money making 1 game instead of 3?

[madjedi]

Considering the quality of those said cod games lately and the amount of revenue it makes activison, they can't even get 1 out of the 3 platforms working right.

Exactly how much effort are you expecting activison to do on anything other than counting the blops money, when they refuse to give it dedicated servers or a proper beta to ensure a quality experience.

Your whole second paragraph is redundant, first it's activison, no one is even referring to the sales just you, the article is about it being a better game as a ps3 exclusive even with activison in charge of it.

[iOmegaSeriousi]

would be garbage how it is now it wont make a different maybe the graphics would look better but the gameplay and everything else would suck

[RockmanII7]

When a game is made as an exclusive, it is able to use the machines full power to improve the game. When it is multiplay, it has to use the the weaker systems standards in all regards (Ex. If PS3 has more RAM and 360 has more ROM, the game would use the 360's RAM and the PS3's ROM so both systems can handle the game). Because of that, exclusives have more potential to be great than multiplatform games.

[zu4G]

JUST IMAGINE HOW GOOD RED DEAD REDEMPTION IF ITS A PS3 XCLUSIVE, ALL MULTIPLAT GAMES IF THEY ALL PS3 EXCLUSIVE IT WOULD BE AWESOME, AWESOME GRAPHICS ETC.. XBOX MICROSOFT MUST QUIT THIS GAMING INDUSTRY

[Daishi]

The game would have been worse because Activision would have allocated fewer resources to its production. You take a third rate shooter (this game) and throw money at it and you've got a third rate game with great production values. Not to mention that if a game is multiplat they suport it longer with DLC because you reach a broader user base. Not to mention that you need individual teams handling each "port" so it helps the game industry create jobs. I'm waiting for the day when you can play games universaly the way you can a DVD. Can you see it now $20 and $30 games just like movies now. The best thing for games would be the death of Sony and Microsoft, sure you would still have Activision trying to milk every cent but the increase in competition would kill their current "MTV" style marketing plan.

[phinch]

Could be, Should be but sadly it won't be..... shame that its "special brother" has a limited ability and the parents mr and mrs activision want to treat them both equally

[Sparticus_1]

I hope it doesnr become ps3 exclusiove...we dont want that junk....I played ONE cod game..modern warfare 2...that was just to see about all the hype..I managed to get 1% of trophies and ended it and never returned to a cod game....Batlefield games beat the crp out of cod games.

[distorted_reality]

What a horrendously stupid article.

The game would be better if it was a PC exclusive and not watered down for the console kiddies. Author needs to take the fanboy glasses off and grow some brains. I'm actually starting to wonder if the author is HHG in disguise - obviously with a semi-literate editor though.

[KilL7roCitY]

wtf is that story title ?

[T3MPL3TON]

Holy God this article is one giant troll.

#1. Activision has their hands in Microsoft's pocket.
#2. Activision doesn't give a crap about the PS3.
#3. It doesn't matter if it's on the Xbox the only reason it sucks on the PS3 is because of #2.

Before any of you trolls begin to type, remember number 1&2.

Mark my words. COD will end up a 360 exclusive.

[0321]

Yeaaaa No. COD being a PS3 Exclusive wouldn't do much good, Yea I'm sure it would look good graphics wise. But people would buy it and abandon it when Killzone comes out.

[MARKUS_MAX1MUS]

Meh who gives a flyinggggg fuck! Call of duty isnt a game, your stupid if you think it is.

Call of Duty is a BRAND like mcdonalds, it sells millions but you get fed crap and dont seem to mind it.

The old woman next door even knows what Call of Duty is, her fucking cat even knows what Call of Duty is, Its a big name brand and nothing more. People who dont have a clue about games buy into it because well its a brand...for example if you want a fast food burger what do you think of? McDonalds? might not be the best burger but its "McDonalds" so you buy it because of the brand.

[orange-skittle]

because the title says FAIL all over it. Grow the hell up with these dumb 12 year water fountain conversations. Exclusives are not only starting to become a thing of the past, but the fact that any Call of Duty ever becoming exclusive is ridiculous. Secondly, PS3 is more powerful but that doesn't mean it's a much better system. It has its flaws just as the 360 does, so stop thinking it's bulletproof. Exclusives will only come from in-house developers in the near future

[Dellis]

Why would any company....3rd party make an exclusive for

the losing console?, that makes no sense.

It is better to put it on every single console/device

and make alot more money.

[joeorc]

Why would any company....3rd party make an exclusive for

the losing console?, that makes no sense.

exactly why would they make it for the xbox360 and the PS3..an instead make it for the system that's winning..you know that System which is the Wii?

see how that works!

why not make it Wii exclusive..it's not the loosing system..like the xbox360 or the PS3..hell why make any 3rd party Game Exclusive except for the Winner console!

your console does not have to be the #1 sold to get 3RD party Exclusives..hell Heavy Rain is a 3RD party Exclusive and i's as if you said it's made for the Loosing console.

[paracardium]

KZ3 and Resistance3 are going to be way better then COD...I tried COD and it's same old rehashed Bs from the others...COD is a stale franchise to me anyway.

[TacoBurrito]

I like the smaller maps. I dont have to run around for a minute just to find somebody.

[Captain Tuttle]

This dude is just whoring himself out for hits. I find it hard to believe that's his picture, he's gotta be 12.

[SpinalRemains138]

COD??

No thanx. Id rather play a FPS without phone booth maps; fighting for ten square feet of ground.

[ZombieKiller]

It wouldn't be better on PS3. It would probably be the same thing it is now with more people complaining about it. Activision needs to stop pooping out games every single year for that to happen. Not to mention, all those other games you mentioned, have either dedicated servers and QUALITY. The fact that Treyarch runs all their games off the same servers makes it lag. Plus that is cheaper for Activision.
Its quality or quantity you sacrifice when you crap out a game annually and because people keep buying it, Activision is choosing quantity (duh!)
How about this.....to make COD a monster that it once was, stop with the exclusive system dreams and STOP BUYING THE GAMES....at least until the quality is better. Been buying COD for 4 years now and this is my last as it stands now.

[abczby]

How about instead of making it a PS3 exclusive so it would be perfect on the PS3, we just completely scrap the PS3 version since its already perfect on the Xbox 360 and PC?

That makes a lot more sense to me.