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PS3 'Alone In The Dark' Changes Not Guaranteed For Xbox 360 Gamers

MTV Multiplayer's Patrick Klepek reports:

"Eden Games is making some much needed control, camera and inventory changes to "Alone in the Dark" before it arrives on PlayStation 3.

These changes are in direct response to criticisms of the Xbox 360 version. At the Leipzig Games Convention, Eurogamer reported news of a patch so Xbox 360 owners could enjoy the same changes.

While checking out the tweaked "Alone in the Dark" in a San Francisco hotel yesterday, game designer Emile Morel couldn't explicitly promise such a patch was coming."
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Published: 474 days 8 hours ago | News | PlayStation 3 | Xbox 360 | Industry News
 
 

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HighDefinition - 474 days 8 hours ago
1 - That`s a pretty heavy diss........
Too bad.
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Kigmal - 474 days 3 hours ago
1.1 -
lol no its not this game sucks
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HighDefinition - 474 days 3 hours ago
1.2 - @kigmal
To me atleast, it sounds like the changes have made it better. They "overhauled" alot of the game I guess.

So.......
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Silellak - 474 days 3 hours ago
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Not really a diss, it's just a profit-based decision from the developers.

If the cost of the 360 patch is greater than the likely profits from the patch, then the patch won't be made.

Likely the same reason PS3 games don't retroactively add trophies, 360 Eternal Sonata won't have the PS3 enhancements, etc. It's not a "diss". It's business.
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harry190 - 474 days 3 hours ago
1.4 - Actually Silellak
there are certain things that they can't change through a patch .I believe it was what they said in a previous interview. It has to do with some technical problems.
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lordgodalming - 474 days 3 hours ago
1.5 - Bad move by the developers
I don't own a 360, but I'm still a little annoyed on 360 owners' behalves. Eden Games released a broken game, and to fix it for one system only borders on criminal.
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meepmoopmeep - 474 days 8 hours ago
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conspiracy theory, maybe ;)
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Veronica Belmont - 474 days 8 hours ago
3 - If
PS3 users dont care about the changes Im doubtful 360 users will even notice.
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bluecapone - 474 days 8 hours ago
4 -
not enough to save this terrible game
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pwnsause - 474 days 6 hours ago
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Phil Harrision > You.
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m9105826 - 474 days 5 hours ago
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Its supposedly a pretty awesome game now taht they've tightened it up.
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Stana - 474 days 4 hours ago
8 - Don't care
This game is garbage, waiting for Silent Hill and Dead Space
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heyheyhey - 474 days 3 hours ago
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please... as if SH won't be garbage too

America devs including traditional combat controls and removing that SH style?

no...

Resi all the way
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jay2 - 474 days 3 hours ago
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Go Phil.
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Sony Rep - 474 days 3 hours ago
9.1 -
Go Phil, its your birthday!
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Rice - 474 days 3 hours ago
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we gonna party likes its your birthday..
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Sony Rep - 474 days 3 hours ago
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DAY 1 BUY.
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Willio - 473 days 19 hours ago
10.1 -
Game still sucks.
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heyheyhey - 474 days 3 hours ago
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lol, good old Phil eh?

now there's that over chick at Atari too, i smell a case of Sony Ninja's planning a takeover :)
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Ozzyb - 474 days 3 hours ago
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Is anyone actually gonna buy this game anyway? Sorry, but if I had no other options, then maybe.. but considering what is coming out alongside this, please, don't even bother.
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meepmoopmeep - 474 days 3 hours ago
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i hope the improvements made it the game it should have been to begin with.
it had great potential.

i'll read the reviews to see if the problems have been addressed and that will decide if i buy this.

i've always had high hopes for this game
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AclayPS3 - 474 days 3 hours ago
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I was more interested in Alone in the Dark when it first came out.... but not anymore. There's just WAY too many other big games coming out this Fall for me to even consider Alone in the Dark when it first comes out later this year. I might pick it up sometime next year in between the release of Killzone 2 and Infamous just to keep me busy if the game turns out good.

But honestly, I think that it's just suicide for Atari to even release Alone in the Dark this Fall because there's just too much competition.
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PirateThom - 474 days 3 hours ago
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Usually people post nonsense without even reading the article, you post nonsense without reading the damn headline!

THE BAR HAS JUST BEEN LOWERED!
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ps360s - 474 days 3 hours ago
15.2 - ...You are a child...
What is the point of that...people are happy with their buy!

sTUPID CHILD!
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ICUP - 474 days 3 hours ago
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"sucks to be the owner of the ps3 copy of alone in the dark."

At least the ps3 owners didn't pay $60 to test out the beta, so i said thank you 360 owners for testing the beta for us. :)
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meepmoopmeep - 474 days 3 hours ago
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have you learned math?

add up the additional hardware parts for the 360 to be on par with the PS3
software as well (online play)

the cheaper price of a 360 is an illusion.
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rhood022 - 474 days 3 hours ago
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umm...a little lesson in reading comprehension.

LEARNING TO READ 101

"While checking out the tweaked “Alone in the Dark” in a San Francisco hotel yesterday, game designer Emile Morel couldn’t explicitly promise such a patch was coming."

This is referring to the 360 patch, in case you didn't understand.

“We’re trying to do it,” said Morel. “It’s technically complicated. The size of a patch is very limited by Microsoft. So if we do a patch it would only be about the new control and the new camera.”

See the whole "IF WE DO A PATCH" comment? Yeah. Thought you didn't.

Then he mentions the NEW SUBWAY CHASE SCENE, i.e. new content, that would be too large to add to a 360 patch.
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So while you're comment was correct in the whole "a console half the price of the PS3," the parts surrounding it are...well actually your whole comment is stupid.

EDIT:

So you changed your comment to something equally asinine.
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NMC2007 - 474 days 3 hours ago
16 - If they don't patch it right....
Atari will just make more people avoid their future titles if that is the business model they are working with, give one console an unfinished beta at full price and give the other console the complete beta, thing is, if you leave something out of one and add stuff to the other and not upgrade the first one, that is indeed bad business and people do not like bad business, the game is alright, it's not as horrible as I thought it was but it's one of those games that I would only buy if it's in the $9.99 bargain bin.

So watch it Atari, your next game may not sell due to bad business ethics, don't hurt your customer, there is no customer like a scorned gamer, they are out of their minds, so whatever.
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THC CELL - 474 days 1 hour ago
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its a inside job

note people from sony are moving in
Atari are going ps3 exclusive
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Figboy - 473 days 23 hours ago
16.2 - just like EA did when Peter Moore took over,
amiright? amiright?

these guys spout the company bottom line when they are employed by said company, but this is just business.

Phil has no affiliation with Sony anymore, and his job isn't to line Sony's pockets with money. it's to line ATARI'S pockets with money.

he will take whatever strategy is necessary to get this to happen. Atari will continue to be multi-plat for the foreseeable future, but what they need to concentrate on, and which ties into their goals of getting their "phat cash," is learning to make some quality games.

Phil Harrison has proven he knows how to turn a large companies rep around (and he did it in the span of a year), so i won't expect the fruits of his labors to appear on games that have been in development for years already. maybe in another year or two, we will see this "new" Atari. it takes time to develop quality (just look at the PS3; late to the party, but all those decisions that were "killing" the console a year ago, seem to be it's saving grace NOW; ie, HDD standard, Blu Ray, compatibility with large variety of peripherals like external and internal HDDs, cameras, etc, and other bells and whistles).
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Excalibur - 474 days 3 hours ago
17 - Who cares...
I beat the game several months ago 1000/1000 and moved on to a half dozen other games since then.
Even If they did make the changes I probably won't ever play the game again anyway.

These changes prove that once again the devs didn't do their jobs correctly the first go around and rushed a game to the market.
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350ZRunner - 473 days 22 hours ago
18 - It's a Ploy
I say this is a PS3 owner...

I think this is all a ploy to get around the fact that the PS3 owners know this game sucks. So they're claiming that its a new and improved version and trying to make you feel all smug about the 360 owners not getting the fixes.

And the truth will be that it still sucks and they're just trying to con you in to buying it.
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Road Dog - 473 days 20 hours ago
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I don't mean this as a slight towards you but you are the most coherent/rational/lucid/mature PS3 owner/commenter I have ever seen. Bubbles
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Excalibur - 473 days 11 hours ago
19 - 350ZRunner
Even with an Eye patch over an Eye you still see more clearly Than half the folks on this site.
I agree. Bubbles
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Enigma_2099 - 472 days 22 hours ago
20 - Say what you want...
I think he's completely nuts... (j/k)
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