Oblivion Headed to PSP & PS3

errorjustin writes "More Pre-E3 news is coming out - Bethesda's 2006 line-up has been revealed, and on the list is are PS3 and PSP ports of Oblivion. Both are currently slated for a November release, which further backs up Sony's insistence that the PS3 will launch in November. A formal announcement is expected in a couple weeks at E3."

Release dates mean nothing

[kevmo]

"Both are currently slated for a November release, which further backs up Sony's insistence that the PS3 will launch in November"

Yea, and Oblivion was originally slated for release on the 360 for LAST November, but we all know how that ended up.

Oh cool

[Anonymous Coward]

Maybe by the time Oblivion comes out on the PS3 all the bugs will be fixed.

And hey, Oblivion makes perfect sense for the PSP, becuase Oblivion is chock-full of the one thing the PSP really excels at-- load screens!

Anyway, things are looking really, really bad for the 360 on the exclusives front, honestly. The 360 had what looked like an impressive or at least sizable runup of coming games a year ago, but it's now looking like basically everything the 360 has either has a PC release already, is getting a PC release eventually, or is getting a PS3 release eventually. It looks like pretty much all the 360 has left for exclusives is Halo 3 and Gears of War. And as Halo 1 and 2 show us, all we have to do is wait a year or two and Halo 3 will come out on the PC as well. After the number of exclusives which have jumped ship already, the exclusivity of the ones that are left is in serious doubt. For example I wonder how long Gears of War will stay exclusive..?

This is a problem, because the 360 can't fall back on being "the multiplatform games system" as easily this time. Almost none of the really important XBox 1 games were exclusives. But that was okay, because whenever a game came out for multiple systems, the XBox 1 version was invariably the best; so the XBox formed this nice little niche where it had a variety of standout versions of the best games for the PC and PS3 of the time. The 360, though, will be either matched or surpassed in power by the PS3, so the 360 won't have this advantage that the XBox had. The 360 version of [insert game here] will vaguely lag the PS3 version in quality, instead of the other way around. Microsoft has abandoned the niche they held last time. Instead the 360 is basically settling into the niche of, it's the system for the hardcore PC gamer who doesn't want to bother maintaining a PC. I'm certain the 360 will serve this niche very well, but I somehow doubt this is a niche likely to grow much over the next 3-4 years...

Re:Hah!

[PoderOmega]

The leaflet I got was for mobile phones, not the PSP

Re:Oh cool

[Anonymous Coward]

Your assertion that PS3 games are always going to be at least equal or superior to 360 games is entirely presumptious- only backed up by Sonys' infamous hyperbole, or by making a 'theoretical' comparison of 'potential' hardware performance only.

This discounts the 360s other platform benefits like superior development tools, a proven internet platform with Live instead of 'Yes we'll have the same features that have taken you years to develop in a month and they'll be much better!' thread-bare promises from Sony, easier to develop for hardware, cheaper hardware, a one year lead time which means the platform will already be on its second generation of titles as the PS3 is hitting generation one. etc

I think it is still too early to say whether the PS3 is going to even match the baseline of next-gen that is the 360, let alone exceed it, and if the PS3 comes out expensive then its' pretty much dead in the water no matter how many exclusives the PS2 currently gets.

You can't assume just because they own the market now that they always will. Developers will jump ship to whatever is selling. The 360 has alot going for it to try address that.