2K mod: There will be no PS3 version of BioShock

BrianC6234 - 783 days 20 hours ago

If a forum moderator says no PS3 version of Bioshock it must be true. Not. Since when does something from a forum mod mean anything? Is it the president of the company or something? I don't know if this game will come out for the PS3 or not but I don't get my news from mods.

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Ashta - 784 days 11 hours ago

Microsoft Game Studios actually paid to have the game switched to an Xbox 360 exclusive while the PS3 version was in mid-development. Which is kind of a crappy move on the part of Microsoft because all they did was pay to have another version canned....which is dirty.

To anyone that calls this a "conspiracy" it isn't. The article on it was in one of the recent EGM issues....I believe september or october where they had an interview with a Bioshock dev. A sidebox held the information that insiders had received information that the reason why the PS3 version was canned was because MS was throwing money around.

Microsoft also did it with Dead Rising. Capcom was going to port over Lost Planet and Dead Rising both, but Microsoft sent a very large money hat to see to it that Dead Rising 1 (the sequel is up in the air) never made it to the PS3 console.

Some people might feel that this is a smart move on Microsoft's part but remember that this business practice is what got them caught up in the anti-trust lawsuits they are in today. It is a business plan to destroy competition through monetary bribes instead of through the free-market itself.

Anyways, as for the PS3 version of Bioshock....would I like to see it? Hell yeah I would. Am I going to cry about this? No, because I, like many others who don't own or never plan to own an Xbox 360, have a PC and I already own Bioshock for that. Just like how I have Gears of War now too.... and I'm sure when MGS (Microsoft Game Studios...not Metal Gear Solid) caves to customer pressure and Mass Effect ends up on PC I'll buy it then too.

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ruibing - 784 days 9 hours ago

Well, Microsoft's dominance/monopoly in software worldwide gives it a strategic position to be very liberal with its investments (take MSNBC for example). While Sony's electronics have a lot of competition from both foreign and domestic brands, who competes with MS's Windows except Apple's OSX and GNU's Linux?

Every development team wants to be well funded. In fact, it would be better for them that the publisher takes up the financial risk for the games, and MS is in such a position to do so.

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Gorgon - 784 days 9 hours ago

Socsa: They can cancel development for a title on a console as long as a developer is independent and is not beying fed money from MS or Sony.

Ashta: Mass Effect WILL come to the PC.

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PS360WiiRocks - 784 days 7 hours ago

ashta shutup and quit your crying "anti trust laws" lmao gimme a break dude.

"Wah wah Microsoft is keep all the games exclusive"
It's called business obviously something you know nothing about...Microsoft paid to keep the PS3 from seeing the games, that might not be buying the rights but it sure as hell is buying the exclusivity of the title. I'm pretty sure you didn't whine when Sony had the entire gaming world in it's back pocket with the PS2. Microsoft is paying for parity without them doing it their would be no reason to own a 360 as every game would be on the PS3 as well.

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Silver Bull3t - 784 days 6 hours ago

This is just more incentive for SONY to do what they should've been doing from the beginning, developing exclusive titles to play-up the power of their console. Not rely on 3rd parties to do it for them.

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tvo - 784 days 5 hours ago

@PS360
I hope you don't ever open a business. That may not be a smart move for you.

Ashta (he's right btw) wasn't saying the 360 was violating anti-trust laws, just that Microsoft has done actions that did and that trying to buy off software developers (for games or computers) is a way of doing that.

But I suppose you can retaliate his informed response with fanboy fanaticism.

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Jason 360 - 784 days 2 hours ago

Your "crying" about it right now, your tears are leeking through the net and on to my keyboard.

crybaby

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rofldings - 784 days 11 hours ago

Just like you crying for MGS4?

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redmamoth - 784 days 11 hours ago

TheMART talks Sh1te!

SLAP

TheMart talks more Sh1te!

SLAP SLAP

Sh1te is literally ouzing from TheMart!!

SLAP SLAP SLAP

TheMart retreats to put wrap a towel around his beloved 360, plants a big wet kiss on his shrine to Big Bill and dissapears to tend to his other RED RING....

Priceless!!!

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Tryst - 784 days 11 hours ago

In other words 2K sold their soul to the devil.

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scoobysnacks - 784 days 11 hours ago

Xbot behaves likes small child, pointing finger. I’ve got it and you haven’t, na na nana na.

SLAP.

Xbot runs to mummy, he’s picking on me.

Guess those Sony fans with PC’s will just buy that version instead.

So called exclusive! It never was coming to PS3, this is news?

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skagrerrrr - 784 days 10 hours ago

HAHAHA! Funny!

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Dante8205 - 784 days 9 hours ago

your a fa(ggot. haha

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TheMART at Xboxkings - 784 days 9 hours ago

To all above: you forget about a couple of important details:

Konami is 3rd party, and have mentioned a couple of times they are looking to other platforms also.

The 360 had 12 mln. units sold somewhere this summer. The 360 sold over 500k in USA alone in September, October also above 500k. World wide they'll touch what, 800k a month. November, even more. December last year they sold 2.1 mln. consoles was it in USA alone or world wide not sure. But still, those numbers combined make an easy 4 mln. sold the last 4 months of this year. Add that on the already 12 mln. number. 16 mln. 360's out there at the end of this year, compared to the slow selling (130k in USA alone) PS3 the last months, just on 5.65 mln. sold recently, makes what, maybe 7 mln. to max. 8 mln. at the end of this year.

Bioshock doesn't need the PS3 to make more profit/get the costs back. MGS4 needs a larger audience then the PS3 one to make profit/get the costs back.

Combine it with the recent Konami survey in Japan if they would buy a PS3 at all etc. And its a complete other story then Bioshock. If you can't see that... Hasn't MGS2 also been on the XBOX 1? So far Konami's loyalty to Sony

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scoobysnacks - 784 days 8 hours ago

Only “rofldings” stated anything about MGS4, and that was only as a jibe against you for such fanboy comments regarding Bioshock coming to PS3. Admittedly some Sony fanboys seem to think Bioshock was still coming to their beloved console, but the majority already new this was unlikely.

So why bring up this old flogged horse of a story about MGS4 and the 360, it’s already been put to rest more times on this site than probably any other story, or are you just that desperate to get hold of it. Give it a rest and stick to the topic, which is not MGS4, its about the non-arrival of Bioshock on PS3, which quite frankly is a good game, but in my opinion (note: only my opinion, others are entitled to their opinion), not a stand-out great game, just a good game, I’ve played better over the years on the PC. Hence, its not a title I’m sorry to see NOT coming to the PS3.

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BestGamerAlive - 784 days 8 hours ago

we dont want bioshock so u can keep it and u keep paying 4 ur online u cant ball on my network anyways u trash

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superdude - 784 days 1 hour ago

Hideo and Ryan Peyton, "mgs4is ps3exsclusive"

F***ED UP THE BUTT
an xbot goes and cries

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WAR_MACHINE77 - 784 days 9 hours ago

I wish they would go away but frankly, the truth seems to have little effect on rumors like these. God himself could come down and say "no bioshock for PS3 and no MGS4 for 360" and fanboys would still claim they heard it was from a better source.

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Tryst - 784 days 11 hours ago

Not really. Its just that X-Bots rave about it.

It looks good, but is extremely boring.

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redmamoth - 784 days 11 hours ago

I think you are getting confused with your 360 there mate. The PS3 has a wide VARIETY of games already available and coming soon.. Thats right, I said VARIETY!

Now crawl back in your hole and go play your FPSBox360!!

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blindfromthesun - 784 days 8 hours ago

I don't think you understand the word: Variety. The definition is simple: the state of being varied or diversified (dictionary.com). Please tell me who has more games, Xbox 360 or PS3? Even your smart enough to answer that one. How many games are on the Xbox that are not on the PS3...theres been quite a few articles on that subject (Google it). So, besides MGS4, Uncharted, and a few rpg's what isn't coming to the 360? Hopefully you have a good enough PC to play Bioshock...

Before I get my first disagree: I plan on buying a PS3 this holiday season. I plan on buying games exclusive to PS3. Nothing wrong with exclusives people...and variety:-p

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thereapersson - 784 days 11 hours ago

You know, it's really not so bad, eh?

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rofldings - 784 days 11 hours ago

Not really. I'm a PS3 owner and I played it on my PC, it wasn't THAT great. The ending was repetitive and sucked.

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Ashta - 784 days 11 hours ago

The 2k mod didn't say that. The Round Peg said that. I don't know what has been up with him lately but he has been extremely negative with aht news he posts about the Playstation 3 or anything Sony related. Also, he has been overstepping his boundaries in what news he posts by adding his own opinions to the descriptions as if it was actually a part of the article.

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ShiftyLookingCow - 784 days 11 hours ago

now its gone. it did make the news hotter I suppose

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ShiftyLookingCow - 784 days 11 hours ago

not sure your usage of "just" is justified. just Killzone 2? just Metal Gear Solid 4?

edit: I hope MGS4 comes sometime in the summer and that KZ2 lives up to the hype unlike KZ(not talking about graphics. I dont even want to debate that.).

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Meus Renaissance - 784 days 11 hours ago

I will be very poor and very busy next year but I definitely will get those two.

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rofldings - 784 days 11 hours ago

Weren't you the one that was uber hyped for uncharted? ;)

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Meus Renaissance - 784 days 11 hours ago

Yes but Uncharted is coming out in a few weeks here. Not 2008 lol

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The Chief of Mjolnir - 784 days 9 hours ago

Yeah, but that´s because MGS is much better than Bioshock. I have played MGS3, and even that game, for the PS2, brought more fun than Bioshock.

I have played Bioshock too, and I got bored just with this travelling to one end of the town and then another part of Rapture thing. Pretty easy to get achievements, tough. But I´d take Call of Duty 4, Mass Effect or Metal Gear Solid anyday over Bioshock. The Splicers are pretty dumb too. They are just jumping into the pools of water so I can shock them with the electro plasmid. Boooring...

And that came from one who owns the Xbox 360.
Bioshcok is not that great. Be glad, PS3 owners.

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