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Soul No Longer Burns on Xbox, GC
GamesIndustry.biz has the word that what was just speculation the other day is now fact. Soul Calibur III will be a PS2 exclusive title. From the article: "The new game, which is scheduled only for 2005, will add three new characters to the mix as well as a new character creation mode, allowing players to create their own fighters in the game."
Clearly some console manufacturers are better at giving sweet lovin' to their third party devs than others. Nintendo seem to be consistently at the back of the pack in this regard. It's their own decision not to encourage third party developers (they occasionally talk the talk on this, but haven't really walked the walk since the days of the SNES)... although personally, I think it's a stupid one.
Besides which, Soul Calibur 2 only broke the usual sales pattern because Nintendo decided to allow some GC-exclusive content (the only instance I'm aware of where this has happened). I suspect this was instrumental in persuading a lot of people who had more than one console to pick the Cube version. With the sheer size of the PS2 installed user-base, if Nintendo aren't willing to do this on a regular basis, they're always going to lose in the sales stakes.
its not a dupe, the other one was merely a question "will it only be released on the PS2", this one is confirming that, i suggest you read the posts again
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