Assassin's Creed Not a PS3 Exclusive?

Gamespot revisits a rumour that was floating around last month, which claims Assassin's Creed won't be a PS3 exclusive. From the article: "Further doubt of PS3 exclusivity was thrown into the mix this week when Web sites began reporting that Ubisoft confirmed at the Interactive Digital Entertainment Festival last week that the game would be coming to the Xbox 360 and PC. Which Web sites? It's not quite clear yet, though the rumor appears to have spawned on European-based Web sites. For those of you who predicted that Ubisoft would deny any other platforms for Assassin's Creed, pat yourself on the back. A rep told GameSpot News: 'Assassin's Creed is coming to the PS3. No other announcements have been made.'" Given the costs of next-gen game development, I don't think we're going to be seeing very many exclusives this time around.

I don't know about you...

[Red Samurai]

But I don't really care. I don't plan on playing it anyway; it's looking profoundly mediocre in my opinion. And it's not like Sony's fate rests on this one game's exclusivity. Sure, it's building a lot of hype, but it certainly isn't as high calibur as MGS4, for instance. It's no big deal.

Re:Yawn

[drinkypoo]

Sad is *getting angry over the internet* for god's sake about a fucking videogame. Jesus christ, get out of the house fanboy nerdlings.

Sad is not logging into a website so you can insult people on it anonymously.

Then again, sad is also responding to the AC troll.

Re:Yawn

[sqlrob]

Not at first. There was always several months of exclusivity

Re:Yawn

[mikeisme77]

So when endless, uninspired sequels make it to other consoles then we should wake you up?

Don't get me wrong, I loved the first MGS for PS1 and thought it was extremely innovative (switching the controller when fighting Pscyho Mantis was simple but BRILLIANT), but MGS2 lacked these clever tricks and had too many long CG cutscenes which kind of turned me off from it (didn't even pick up MGS3). Final Fantasy has always been hit and miss for me (enjoyed VII and X, but hated 8 so refused to play 9 and then DESP

Yawns are contagious

[solomonrex]

My first system was a playstation because GT was the first game I was good at, and I loved it so. But now GT is just too long, complicated and unfriendly. It's no longer a system seller. It's a hard core simulation and that can't appeal to a broad audience. Unfortunately, and Sony can't dial back the realism now. And it's stuck in a 6 car, Japanese-centric rut.

MGS is something the Japanese get excited about and the rest of the world mostly shrugs. Most of the game's target audience in the U.S. play To

Re:Yawns are contagious

[Rayonic]

Final Fantasy...I have a love/hate relationship, but my sense from the hard core fans are that it's played out.

The new real-time-ish battle system in FF12 will either revitalize the series, or alienate the remaining fanbase. I'm highly curious as to how it'll turn out.

Re:Yawn

[Rayonic]

but hated 8 so refused to play 9

I've heard that many times, but it still makes no sense. 8 and 9 were not similar. If anything, 8 and 10 are closer in style to each other.

There are (or at least were at the time) two devteams inside Square that make Final Fantasy games. They staggered the releases, so the team that made FF7 also made FF9. The team that made FF8 made FF10. FF11 kinda screwed up the pattern, but there you go.

Re:Yawn

[mikeisme77]

I did it more out of protest against how bad 8 was than anything against 9. Plus at that point FF had begun to really show it's age, I mean they didn't even bother getting voice actors or changing the battle system at all (7 was sort of my introduction into RPGs and by the time 9 came out I had played enough to know that the FF way was not a very fun way). I picked up 10 because they had FINALLY gotten voice actors and supposedly had revamped some of the play (it had changed, but it was still a bit too slow

Not Surprising

[EXTomar]

Given the huge cost of software development, let alone the cut throat world of games, it is probably too expensive for them to go "console exclusive" for any console. I view it as more of the fallout from the complexity of creating games in the new "game race" than a failure or success of anyone in party in particular. The producers of Assissin's Creed may simply not have gotten the finacial backing if they only promised to sell it on *one* platform.

Demoing AC on PS3 hardware was a good thing. Using it a

Re:Not Surprising

[JL-b8]

AC was demoed on a 360 dev with a modded PS3 controller. I never heard anything about it being demoed on a PS3. That's where this rumor got its teeth and why everyone in the world is making such a bold claim.

Huh?

[EXTomar]

AC was demoed on a 360 dev with a modded PS3 controller. I never heard anything about it being demoed on a PS3. That's where this rumor got its teeth and why everyone in the world is making such a bold claim.

Huh? At the TGS 2005 which was the start of Sony's PS3 push, Sony showed some work by Ubi's Monteral Studios simply known as "Project Assassin". Assassin's Creed was *demoed* at E3 on PS3 hardware. It got plenty of press because it was actually a functional demo instead of some looping trailer which

Re:Not Surprising

[WedgeTalon]

Those of us who read more than just /. especially aren't surprised. I first heard about it [joystiq.com] waaaay back on June 26th. Ouch.

Re:Exclusive titles will be on the Wii

[musikit]

this isnt necessarily a good thing. don't get me wrong. i'm getting a wii. bought a xbox and sold it 3 months later. never bought a 360. however you'll notice that every nintendo system has had a gamboy emulator/attachment since the SNES so you can play gameboy games on the main console. great for me i still like oldschool 2D games. however i cant play DS games on my gamecube and possibly can't on the Wii. every DS game seems to take advantage of the dual screen and the touch interface. so porting these gam

Re:Exclusive titles will be on the Wii

[jkmiecik]

No offense bud, but you're a tiny sliver of a very tiny segment.

Oh, and the Wii probably will have an emulator for the old games. You may have heard of it... [engadget.com]

Cross platform is smart.

[Brothernone]

I think this game has lot of potential, like alot of things theese days; however, being exclusive to one console this "generation" wouldn't be a good strategy. Players like being able to play games on their favorite system, and not providing that game to the people who want to play it is basicly throwing money out the window.. that being said i don't think we'll be a seeing a Wii port for many games on the PS3 of 360 becaue of the difference in specs. I hope they at least try though, it'd be sad to see the

AC on Wii - No

[bateleur]

I hope they at least try though

Nice idea, but this is not going to happen. There's been a lot of debate about how the PS3 and XBox 360 compare in power, but one thing is clear: the Wii is a lot weaker.

This isn't a failing on Nintendo's part. They've made it clear the Wii's supposed to be a whole different kind of product. I very much hope it succeeds, but if it does so it won't be by carrying ports of all the PS3 titles.

Re:Cross platform is smart.

[KDR_11k]

Wouldn't surprise me if there were Wii ports of many games. They make DS, GBA and PSP "ports" so the Wii will probably get a downgraded version of most cross-platform games. There's already a lot of talk about the Wii version of CoD3.

There will be tons of exclusives. On the Wii.

[LKM]

Given the costs of next-gen game development, I don't think we're going to be seeing very many exclusives this time around

Yes, we are. Not on the PS3 and Xbox 360, but definitely on the Wii.

Re:There will be tons of exclusives. On the Wii.

[poot_rootbeer]

And for those games that are released cross-platform for both the 360 and the PS3, I expect to see a lot of lowest-common-denominator coding. Given the choice between developing two divergent codebases highly optimized for the systems' respective CPUs, or a baseline PowerPC codebase that only needs slight tweaking to give decent performance on each platform, which do you think small-to-medium development houses are more likely to pursue?

Re:There will be tons of exclusives. On the Wii.

[radish]

I think they'll probably just license an engine/middleware that works on both platforms and code to that. Leave the hardware specific stuff to the middleware vendors.

Re:There will be tons of exclusives. On the Wii.

[Morinaga]

Halo 3

Why? Well, because Bungi is owned by Microsoft. They can afford to make it exclusive and in no uncertain terms Microsoft has said they will use that for leverage against Sony. No pressure on Bungi employees or anything.

Re:There will be tons of exclusives. On the Wii.

[LKM]

"One" is even smaller than "not many". Besides, it'll come out for PC and Mac a year after the 360 version. By the way, it's "Bungie".

Re:There will be tons of exclusives. On the Wii.

[thatguywhoiam]

Yes, we are. Not on the PS3 and Xbox 360, but definitely on the Wii.

Well, to be fair, that knife cuts both ways.

- More unique games will appear only on the Wii, because of its unique controller.
- More typically multiplatform games will NOT appear on the Wii, because of its unique controller.

Both statements are true. Now, you can quite plausibly say that this is to your liking, if you are sick and tired of also-ran franchise series games plaguing you. However I would hasten to add that, if you are a N

Re:There will be tons of exclusives. On the Wii.

[LKM]

More typically multiplatform games will NOT appear on the Wii, because of its unique controller.

They probably will appear, but in unique versions. That the Wii won't get the specific versions of these games that the 360 and the PS3 will get is very obvious, and I never denied that. If you want access to most games, you need both a Wii and either a 360 or a PS3.

Re:There will be tons of exclusives. On the Wii.

[sehryan]

Irrelevant of the controller, Nintendo always has plenty of exclusives. Mario, Zelda, Metroid, to name a few. Your example is only relevant to third parties.

Oh that's right

[sgt scrub]

I keep forgetting people are buying the PS3 to play games. I wish they would hurry up and release it. My Inline IPS project is getting cold.

Wait for it...

[MMaestro]

A rep told GameSpot News: 'Assassin's Creed is coming to the PS3. No other announcements have been made.'

Yet. "No other announcements have been made [yet]."

Face it, as far as anyone knows, Assassin's Creed was just a trailer. There was no gameplay, no word on whether it would use the motion sensor and anybody who compared the graphics from the 360 and PS3 knows its not hard to imagine the game running on the 360 (at least in the graphics department.)

Ubi ... pure genius

[fujiman]

So Ubisoft got some extra dough from Sony to hold back release of other ports until after launch. Good for them. Glad to see someone will be making money off this crazy console war.