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Sony's Expected E3 Titles

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the hopefuls-from-one-of-the-big-boys dept.

Next-Gen has more details on expected titles we'll see next week at E3. Today they have details on games from Sony and Sony Online Entertainment. From the former article: "God of War II - The apparently big shocker about God of War II was that it's staying resident on the PS2 instead of the PS3, which is supposedly a bad thing. The people who think this maybe are forgetting that God of War, the first one, was a Playstation 2 game; maybe they are even forgetting how that game was a blood-soak masterpiece? It's not entirely clear. What is clear from footage is that God of War II looks to up the ante of the first game in every way."

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  1. Excuse me? by sehlat · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But this deals with a company that attempted to install rootkits on our machines. Why should we give a damn WHAT they do from now on? I'm *still* not buying anything with their accursed logo on it.

    1. Re:Excuse me? by CaymanIslandCarpedie · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Be prepared to hear all about how the PS3 is OK because its made by a seperate division, but the XBox is still bad because that whole seperate division theory only applies to Sony.

      Be warned! ;-)

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    2. Re:Excuse me? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Ok go play your console that's run by convictied anti-competitive monopolists... or maybe "peace loving Nintendo" (who has had their share of lawsuits in the past, please refer to Game Genie) Oh and by the way... you do realize that Sony itself is split into divisions, and that each division is run pretty much seperate? I'm also quite entertained that you believe Sony is the big bad company but the others are not... perhaps you should be asking yourself if Sony was just the only one stupid enough to be caught yet?

    3. Re:Excuse me? by aichpvee · · Score: 2, Funny

      Can't we dislike both of them? Wtf is my Wii!

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  2. Current- vs. Next-Gen by A+Brand+of+Fire · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Though the PS3 is, assumedly, right around the corner, the PS2 still has a lot of life left in it. One of my very best friends is an ex-EA Tiburon employee; during his tenure there, we had many intense programming-related discussions regarding the consoles, particularly the PS2 and GCN. The PS2 was very, very difficult to program for (as was the GCN), and since development cycles were usually anywhere between six months to a year for any given title, that didn't leave a lot of time to radically improve upon the software pushing the hardware to its limit (this is fairly-well illustrated with games that've had long dev cycles like the MGS series). And, essentially, a good portion of titles for next-gen consoles will be/have been built centered around what capabilities they've already utilized on current-gen systems.

    It's really a mature- vs. infantile-platform scenario. With time, I'm certain there will be more migration away from current-gen platforms, but I don't think it's such a bad idea that software companies continue to support the platforms already present; after all, adopting the next-gen systems with the prices at which they're being sold will be tough for a lot of people during the first six months. After that first six months to a year of early-adopter support, the software development on the new systems will mature, games will utilize more of the systems' capabilities (i.e. look purdier), and development houses will feel more confident about putting more titles on them.

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    1. Re:Current- vs. Next-Gen by Soul-Burn666 · · Score: 2, Interesting

      That is interesting.
      In a way, it would seem that the stability of the console's hardware specs pushes forward optimizations, which while mostly are hardware specific, are also algorithmic and can be used on other platforms.
      From a different pov, does the gradual progress on the PC market actually stifle these kinds of optimizations? A dev team might think "oh, next year they'll sell a stronger card, so I can assume this awfully slow algorithm will work well" and therefore don't strive to optimize more.

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    2. Re:Current- vs. Next-Gen by Shadarr · · Score: 2, Insightful

      I would imagine that with God of War 2 it's a matter of making a sequel using the same engine very quickly, hitting next Christmas season and selling a sh*t-ton of copies to the massive number of PS2 owners, versus writing a new engine for a new system and either missing Christmas or having to cut corners, all so they can try to drive new console sales. Seems like a no-brainer to me.

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  3. Next-Gen's hopeful Sony list by krotkruton · · Score: 3, Informative

    Just like the last few articles from Next Generation, these are the games that Next Gen hopes to see at E3 from Sony, not the games that Sony will be displaying. The disclaimer is at the bottom of the article.