The PS3 can eat Sam Fisher for Breakfast
The latest news for the Xbox 360exclusive, Splinter Cell: Conviction, is sure to bubble up some anger in PS3[ owners. In an interview with Lead Designer Steven Masters, he said that his team "could absolutely execute on PS3".
Masters then went onto explain that the move was only a question of "business". When asked if this was just a boardroom thing, and not anything else, Masters replied with:
"Absolutely, yeah. Ubisoft as a company now has a lot of experience with PS3. Our processes, tools, techniques are very well-developed - we could absolutely execute on the PS3 if we had the opportunity, but like I said it was a business decision."
It's safe to assume that this "business" decision may have had something to do with Microsoft, as they've done exclusive deals before. However, it could also be assumed that Ubisoft didn't want to make a PS3 version, as sales may have not recovered the costs of development.
How do you feel about this? Post your thoughts below.
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July 21st, 2009 at 8:19 PM
I don’t think anyone ever believed it couldn’t be done on the PS3, and I think everyone assumed Microsoft payed them out for it.
I kind of think it’ll show up on the PS3 after a while, but not anytime soon, if not, oh well there’s a load of exclusives that PS3 fans are looking towards anyhow.
July 21st, 2009 at 8:20 PM
Splinter Cell was my fav game series and I still hope it comes out later for ps3 tho…But if Ubisoft take my Ghost Recon away from me it gonna be TROUBLE….
July 21st, 2009 at 8:22 PM
Give it a year, 2 tops, and we’ll see a better version of this game exclusive on ps3. =) *COUGH ninja gaiden 2 COUGH*
July 21st, 2009 at 8:39 PM
They were paid. No doubt about it. Why would they want to miss out on profits from the Playstation 3?
July 21st, 2009 at 8:48 PM
Well its too broad a statement to really judge first of all. This game was originally scheduled for release a long time ago. Its known that they had to go back to the drawing board for whatever reason to get the game more up to snuff. Nearly every Ubisoft game has been multiplatform…for this one not to be suggests that they paid for exclusivity (timed or otherwise). If they got paid, who can fault them.
The game looks awesome and I hope it makes it way to the PS3…provided it lives up to what was shown during the MS E3 conference.
July 21st, 2009 at 9:07 PM
MS is buying the gaming industry and the industry doesn’t care. Really when it comes to cold hard cash most people don’t care either.
July 21st, 2009 at 9:19 PM
Read through some of the comments, and it most likely will be out after two years, the other one is yeah it’s hard to say whether or not the company was paid off for exclusivity, but they say it was “business” so that’s enough to say it was.
If it’s not, we all know the original started with XBOX(and perhaps they’re just doing that because they were with XBOX originally at first with this game), but it also spread to PS2 and GameCube so yeah.
July 21st, 2009 at 9:39 PM
Considering how Double Agent turned out on the PS3, I’m glad it’s a 360 exclusive.
July 21st, 2009 at 9:44 PM
if their sales on the PS3 didn’t make up for their production costs, then they didn’t make a good enough game. I guarantee that there has been no worth while game in the last two years that lost money trying to sell a PS3 version…this has dirty Microsoft written all over it.
The way I look at it is if Microsoft was confident enough that they could beat Sony without paying off developers for exclusive deals, they wouldn’t. I personally hate the thought of either MS or Sony buying exclusive rights to a game, you should be able to beat your competitor on the battlefield, it shouldn’t depend on how thick your wallet is.
…Actually it says something for Sony for not using the same tactics as MS because you know they have the means to buy off developers too (I’m sure they’ve done it a couple times, but not nearly as often and most of their superb exclusives are made within SCEA). Obviously Sony actually has enough pride and faith in their console that they don’t need to “cheat”
July 21st, 2009 at 11:34 PM
You know what the biggest thing that gets me is that MicroSOFT is by definition is a SOFTWARE company. How many times have they actually created a quality and original piece of SOFTWARE? They don’t really care that much they just want quick hits for there system and buy off developers. Guess you could count all that stuff they have from RARE. Really RARE?? Bungie jumped ship???
July 22nd, 2009 at 2:05 AM
My thoughts? I thought it was absurd to begin with when they said that PS3 could not handle the game’s complexity with physics calculations and such, seeing as how the Cell processor is actually much more capable of handling such tasks. It only makes it more silly to come out now and say they are fully capable of making it happen on PS3. Why say another word?
July 22nd, 2009 at 3:18 AM
its embarrassing that idiot has my last name.
July 22nd, 2009 at 9:41 AM
You know, I think Ubisoft (not sure, though) said that SC was an X-Box franchise, but then I notice that the PS2 version of SC 4 had exclusive levels! I started reaserching and I found out that SC and SC 2 had PS2 exclusive levels! of course this can be because the PS2 version was always released later, but you never know.
I also noticed a strange fact: if microsoft paid Ubisoft to get SC as an exclusive, then why is the game, acording to gamespot, releasing on DS? pheraps we can get SC:C after all
July 22nd, 2009 at 11:46 AM
what a weird story, I’m not sure what to think now. ty very much psls, lol.
July 22nd, 2009 at 12:09 PM
Really no one on PS3 should be mad, I mean if you want to play a stealth action game you have MGS4, with a new one on the way. Splinter Cell’s are fun games but nothing to lose sleep over.
July 22nd, 2009 at 12:50 PM
@ Robotron
exactly dude.. thats why i have no respect for MS they just buy there way into everything instead of adding…example Natal (eyetoy) its like wtf? talk about innovation..
July 23rd, 2009 at 3:22 AM
splinter cell has been going downhill, what was the last one, double agent? did we get that on PS3? I wasn’t even sure if Xbox360 got it.
July 26th, 2009 at 2:37 AM
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