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Bioshock PS3 Demo Coming October 2nd
Kotaku reports that a demo for the much-awaited PS3 port of Bioshock will be available on October 2nd. 2K Games launched a new interactive website to promote the game, which comes out on October 21st in the US. GiantBomb took a brief look at the PS3 version, saying, "... quality seems perfectly intact. The PS3 seems to be perfectly capable of rendering Rapture just as it appeared in 2007. The main changes you'll see with this version include things like Survivor mode, which is a new, harder difficulty setting. ... the game also has all of the downloadable updates that rolled out to 360 owners." 1Up notes that the full version will require a 5GB install, and they made a comparison video.
To think a game developer will not port their title over to another console is crazy. With increasing price of developing a game it would be crazy to keep your title on one console unless the big guy pays you to (Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony).
The only bad part about this though is that as a gamer you might have to wait an extra year to have the game finally released on your console.
According to wikipedia, the PS3 has 100 exclusives currently announced and/or out, while the Xbox 360 has 132, which isn't that big of a lead considering the 360 was out for a year ahead of the PS3.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:PlayStation_3-only_games
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Xbox_360-only_games
These days saying that the PS3 has no exclusives is about as accurate as saying the Xbox only has FPS games.
All in all though this generation of consoles will have very few true exclusives on either system, so it boils down to whether you want the cheaper Xbox and to pay for the more consistent Internet gaming service, or pay extra for the PS3 to get a blueray player, wireless Internet, Bluetooth headset/keyboard/mouse support, faster load times, but with Internet gaming depending on the developer's implementation.
To think a game developer will not port their title over to another console is crazy.
Unless a developer is small enough that only one console maker will give the developer a license. Microsoft, with its XNA Creators Club and Xbox Live Community Games store, has shown that it wants to be that console maker.
Or unless a game depends on a patented input device made by one console maker. Nintendo, with its Wii Remote, has shown that it wants to be that console maker.
In other news, the PS3 is the new Mac, getting game ports months/years after other platforms.
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