Haze Now Slated As A PS3 Exclusive

Haze, a first person shooter slated for release this year, has surprisingly been announced as a PlayStation 3 exclusive. This past spring Ubisoft, the game's publisher, announced that the First Radical title was going to have the PS3 as its 'lead platform' when it released. It appears that lead has now become 'only'. "Currently only the PS3 version of Free Radical's shooter is in development. The France-based publisher also noted that it was still leaving the door open in the future for 'new partnerships,' but currently the game is indeed only planned for the PS3. A spokesperson said, 'The official statement on PC and Xbox 360 is that these platforms are not confirmed.'"

Comments

Re:PR speak

[QMalcolm]

Exactly. What Ubisoft is doing here is nothing but marketing.

Haze is announced multiplatform: people talk about it for a while but mostly forget about it.
Haze is announced as PS3 exclusive: fanboys suddenly care about it, talk about it much more.
Haze is released on PS3, then the 360/PC versions are announced: "OMG PS3 exclusive coming to 360/PC!" People talk about it again.

Re:It just slipped from a 9.0 to a 4.9

[Fallen Kell]

So, you're asserting that the platform is a factor in whether or not a game is good Yes, I think he is, and he has nailed it right on the head. I give you example 1:

http://www.gamespot.com/wii/action/metroidprime3/r eview.html?om_act=convert&om_clk=gssummary&tag=sum mary;review

With such CONS like:

Streamlined controls make things a little too easy and a little less adventurous What was that? BETTER controls makes the game too easy? Wait, roll that back again. They are saying that because the controls are so good and intuitive, the game is easier to play. I never knew that if you made the most convoluted controls and user interface that make the game impossible to play would result in a "PRO" as opposed to a "CON". But since they are saying that good, intuitive controls is a "CON", I guess that the contrapositive is also the case.

We also get the:

Doesn't do much different than the previous two Metroid Prime games. I wonder what they say when Halo 3 comes out...