210°

Batman - Prey in the Darkness DLC - PS3 Exclusive in US

39
WorthPlaying is reporting that the new Batman: Arkham Asylum Prey in the Darkness will be a PS3 exclusive DLC in North America. It will be available for PS3 and Xbox 360 for gamers outside of North America.

"The new content will be available beginning Sept. 24 as a free download on PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Marketplace in Europe, on PlayStation Network ONLY in North America."
Read Full Story >>   
worthplaying.com
Alternative Sources:
Even More Free Batman: Arkh... - pushsquare.com | By: get2sammyb
Eidos Announces Batman - Pr... - ps3news.com | By: Rook101
Syriel - contributor
Published: 104 days 5 hours ago | News | PlayStation 3 | Xbox 360
 
 

Showing: 1 - 34 of 34 Comments
Shut this user up Let user speak
RainOfTerror - 104 days 5 hours ago
PM
Track
Ignore
1 -
hmm unless this is some whacky typo, US peeps are getting shafted.
Agree(2) | Disagree(1) | Report | Reply
Shut this user up Let user speak
gamesR4fun - 104 days 5 hours ago
PM
Track
Ignore
1.1 - well only the 360 only owners
and they should b used to it by now :P j/k

no doubt its timed exclusive here if there releasing it on the 360 in the UK

btw can you make a uk account on the 360 like u can the ps3 cause then they could jus dl it...
Agree(5) | Disagree(2) | Report
Shut this user up Let user speak
kalebgray92 - 104 days 4 hours ago
PM
Track
Ignore
1.2 - lol
that was funny + bubble
Agree(0) | Disagree(2) | Report
Shut this user up Let user speak
Roper316 - 104 days 4 hours ago
PM
Track
Ignore
1.3 -
@ 1.1 but DLC is region locked even on the PS3. So he would need a EU version of the game to use their DLC in the US.
Agree(5) | Disagree(5) | Report
Shut this user up Let user speak
FamilyGuy - 104 days 3 hours ago
PM
Track
Ignore
1.4 - roper316
DLC is NOT region locked on the PS3
Agree(4) | Disagree(4) | Report
Shut this user up Let user speak
SevWolf - 104 days 3 hours ago
PM
Track
Ignore
1.5 -
@ family guy: DLC IS, games are NOT....I know this cause I downloaded one of the free costumes for LBP off my eu account and it didn't show in my game( US version), then I downloaded the same outfit off the US store and it worked
Agree(6) | Disagree(0) | Report
Shut this user up Let user speak
BRG9000 - 104 days 2 hours ago
PM
Track
Ignore
1.6 -
Interesting, looks like Sony has been sneaking peeks at Microsoft's playbook. It's strange that if a deal was struck for exclusivity to PS3 in the US though, this wasn't publicized before the game came out to sell more copies on PS3 vs. 360.
Agree(0) | Disagree(1) | Report
Shut this user up Let user speak
Xiphos - 104 days 2 hours ago
PM
Track
Ignore
1.7 -
SevWolf is correct, DLC is region locked on the PS3, games are not. You have to own the game from the same region as the DLC.
Agree(1) | Disagree(0) | Report
Shut this user up Let user speak
Syriel - 104 days 5 hours ago
PM
Track
Ignore
2 -
Nope, no typo.

You live in North America, you only get the DLC if you play on PS3.

You live in Europe and you can play on either platform.
Agree(1) | Disagree(0) | Report | Reply
Shut this user up Let user speak
Kamikaze135 - 104 days 5 hours ago
PM
Track
Ignore
3 - Why?
Don't get me wrong, I love exclusive PS3 content, but why this? Lol...one exclusive map is enough, if you ask me.
Agree(2) | Disagree(1) | Report | Reply
Shut this user up Let user speak
Raoh - 104 days 5 hours ago
PM
Track
Ignore
4 -
I'm generally against exclusive content.. either make the game exclusive or not at all..

But being that batman is so good, i like that ms fans get a taste of their own medicine.
Agree(17) | Disagree(3) | Report | Reply
Shut this user up Let user speak
IaMs12 - 104 days 5 hours ago
PM
Track
Ignore
4.1 -
Yah its true sony got back at it but just in North America is a little odd, i thought NA wasnt the world, so why just there? Probably the largest install base of the 360 is there but still. Anyways the PS3 is getting Fallout DLC and everything so far the only exclusive DLC 360 has is the GTA.

Funny thing tho, Sony boys will praise this, but bring hell to MS for doing is
Agree(5) | Disagree(1) | Report
Shut this user up Let user speak
Raoh - 104 days 4 hours ago
PM
Track
Ignore
4.2 -
It is odd but not new..

there are some PSN/XBLA games that are multi releases in japan an EU but exclusive to microsoft in america..

could be a publishing thing..
Agree(1) | Disagree(0) | Report
Shut this user up Let user speak
N4M3L355 - 104 days 4 hours ago
PM
Track
Ignore
4.3 - @IaMs12
I mostly agree with your last comment, but I think there's a small difference. Sony fanboys normally get mad b/c MS pays for exclusivity. Sony may do the same, but we never hear about it.
Agree(1) | Disagree(5) | Report
Shut this user up Let user speak
infamous_27 - 104 days 4 hours ago
PM
Track
Ignore
4.4 -
@Raoh

Really, What games?
Agree(0) | Disagree(0) | Report
Shut this user up Let user speak
Raoh - 103 days 21 hours ago
PM
Track
Ignore
4.5 -
wasnt gti club multi platform for all regions except the u.s. where it was exclusive to xbla?

I remember there was a list of a few titles like this..
Agree(0) | Disagree(0) | Report
Shut this user up Let user speak
zootang - 104 days 4 hours ago
PM
Track
Ignore
5 -
gaming should be enjoyed by all. tut! tut! Sony. lowering themselves to Microsofts level
Agree(6) | Disagree(3) | Report | Reply
5.1 3sq | 104 days 4 hours ago - deleted by mod -
Shut this user up Let user speak
Roper316 - 104 days 4 hours ago
PM
Track
Ignore
5.2 -
I agree all the content for a MP game should be available to all consoles, But I guess Sony is fighting fire with fire which is a shame that they lower themselves to MS tactics.

This will probably end up on the 360 just like the GTA DLC will probably be available on the PS3 6-12 months after the Gay Tony DLC releases. The GTA contract won't be over until all the DLC is released and the time frame elapses.
Agree(0) | Disagree(1) | Report
Shut this user up Let user speak
fooflex - 104 days 4 hours ago
PM
Track
Ignore
6 - if...
this always sucks, it sucked for ps3 folks when Bethseda was delaying ps3 addons for Fallout 3, and this sucks too, except this is kind of silly the content was made for the 360, and it's sold a ton in america, why deny the 360 fans? and not even warn us about this prior to launch. ps3 fans already got the playable joker. I think once you decide your multiplatform stop jerking us around with silly exclusives.
Agree(1) | Disagree(0) | Report | Reply
Shut this user up Let user speak
IDemonstalkerXI - 104 days 4 hours ago
PM
Track
Ignore
7 -
exclusive and timed exclusive DLC is dirty.
Agree(2) | Disagree(0) | Report | Reply
7.1 3sq | 104 days 4 hours ago - User only got 1 bubble - Show
Shut this user up Let user speak
IDemonstalkerXI - 104 days 4 hours ago
PM
Track
Ignore
7.2 -
you can't blame MS when you don't have many 1st party studio's you got to do what you got to do. Still they really should of used that money to open another studio.
Agree(3) | Disagree(4) | Report
Shut this user up Let user speak
cgoodno - 104 days 4 hours ago
PM
Track
Ignore
7.3 -
So... you can't blame Microsoft, but you can blame Sony? Seems just as biased as the people who think Microsoft deserves this, IMHO.

I'd rather see it available to all. Even the joker DLC. The game is good, everyone should enjoy it.

Having said that, regardless of the desire for everyone to play a game equally, I see the business side of things and thereby the necessity to obtain exclusive deals like this.

I wonder if it was really paid for by Sony, though. They are coming out with DC Universe Online and they do make a lot of money off of Warner Bros. movies, including The Dark Knight and similar DC comic movies.

Edit: So people actually disagree with me and don't think that all gamers should have the chance to play all DLC? Wow, you guys really do like to fight with your fellow gamers.
Agree(6) | Disagree(3) | Report
Shut this user up Let user speak
pixelsword - 104 days 3 hours ago
PM
Track
Ignore
7.4 - @ IDemonstalkerXI;
As I heard many times before when exclusive this or that came down:

If you want to play it, buy the console in question.
Agree(1) | Disagree(0) | Report
Shut this user up Let user speak
Optical_Matrix - 104 days 4 hours ago
PM
Track
Ignore
8 - Exclusive DLC Sony? Really?
I hope this was the devs choice and not yours. Stooping to MS' level to get sales just isn't the way. DLC should be enjoyed by the masses of those who bothered fork out all of the cash to buy the game in the first place. Not just a few who own a specific console.
Agree(2) | Disagree(0) | Report | Reply
Shut this user up Let user speak
RainOfTerror - 104 days 4 hours ago
PM
Track
Ignore
9 -
Just odd that the first one was free for all, and this one isn't.

Let's hope it's only times, so everybody can enjoy the excellence of this game even further.
Agree(0) | Disagree(0) | Report | Reply
Shut this user up Let user speak
Shuya - 104 days 4 hours ago
PM
Track
Ignore
10 -
Well Eidos still hasn't caved in to the Tomb raider dlc on ps3 yet, has it been a year since it was announced yet? that's normally how these things work.
Agree(1) | Disagree(0) | Report | Reply
Shut this user up Let user speak
TheTwelve - 104 days 4 hours ago
PM
Track
Ignore
11 - If this is true...
...Sony couldn't have picked a better multi-plat game (IMO) to start exacting the exclusive revenge back on Microsoft. I think this game is genius. One of the best games I've ever played, and especially so if you know anything about Batman.

12
Agree(4) | Disagree(1) | Report | Reply
Shut this user up Let user speak
bryam666 - 104 days 4 hours ago
PM
Track
Ignore
12 - poor 360
seems like microsoft is losing this war in every front jajaja i guess if they continued at the pace they will end up like the dreamcast a failure console sorry xbox owners
Agree(1) | Disagree(0) | Report | Reply
Shut this user up Let user speak
SpitFireAce85 - 104 days 3 hours ago
PM
Track
Ignore
13 - Eye for an Eye
Keep doing this Sony if Microsoft can so can you.GTA dlc,fallout dlc
MW2 dlc.Lets play dirty!!
Agree(1) | Disagree(0) | Report | Reply
Shut this user up Let user speak
Figboy - 104 days 3 hours ago
PM
Track
Ignore
14 - Boomerang.
Microsoft started this this generation, and MS fanboys ate it up.

It was all well and good when it looked like this sort of crap would never happen to MS.

But now that the boomerang is on it's way back, suddenly it's "tsk tsk Sony."

There's no such thing as "stooping to their level," when business and millions of dollars are concerned.

How many reviewers recommended the 360 versions of GTAIV, Tomb Raider, Fallout 3, etc, JUST because of the exclusive DLC?

And yet, not a SINGLE reviewer recommended the PS3 versions of Bioshock, Tales of Vesperia, Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2, and Batman: AA over the 360 versions, despite the PS3 version having extra features and or DLC?

Unlike the year later releases of the first three games, Batman: AA shipped day and date with the 360 version, and ALWAYS included the free exclusive Joker DLC, and yet no one said you should get that version. They always modified it with, "well, if you MUST play as the Joker, then get the PS3 version."

When GTAIV didn't even HAVE the DLC released yet, people were like, "well, the 360 version will be getting DLC, so get THAT ONE."

hypocrites.

i don't like the exclusive DLC either, but hey, ONE company started this trend, and now the gamers have to deal with it for the rest of the generation. good going guys. buy supporting this practice by gobbling up Lost and the Damned, Tomb Raider DLC, etc, etc, it paved the way for t his to become common practice.

this generation has been perverted and tainted since the BEGINNING. i fear it's too late to change things now.
Agree(2) | Disagree(0) | Report | Reply
Shut this user up Let user speak
Bobby Kotex - 104 days 2 hours ago
PM
Track
Ignore
15 -
Am I the only one not excited by new challenge maps? I guess that's all they can really offer. The last DLC was no big deal. But free stuff is always welcome.
Agree(0) | Disagree(0) | Report | Reply
Shut this user up Let user speak
funkycoldmedina - 104 days ago
PM
Track
Ignore
16 -
I'm wondering if this is because of USA sales were better for PS3 than for X360. Maybe not worth while for Eidos or whoever developer and publisher are but then again it's being released on both for the rest of the world. This decision might come back to bite them later for future game releases in the USA where X360 owners are more in numbers. Oh well, will be downlaoding this for my PS3. :P
Agree(0) | Disagree(0) | Report | Reply
Add Comment (Gamer Zone)
Gamer Zone Posting Guidelines
The Gamer Zone is for members who want a more friendly and civilized discussion. This section is heavily moderated by the N4G staff, so leave your fanboyism at the door please. Members who are unable to behave in a mature and respectful manner will be temporarily or permanently restricted from posting in the Gamer Zone. Using words such as Xbots and Sony droids, or other words from the console war vocabulary, is strictly prohibited in this Zone.
Read More...
 
 
You must log in to post comments.
Username:  
Password:  
 
 
About N4G
N4G is a social game news site that covers the game industry 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
More Info... | Submit News