Rumor: Microsoft Payoff = No PS3 Bioshock
“By now you’ve probably heard of the 360 first-person underwater adventure game BioShock. or read about it. Or (If you’re smart) finished it. But for the uninformed: Would you kindly go play it already? Thanks. Just don’t expect to play it on the Playstation 3. See, my spies let slip that Microsoft handed publisher 2k a mammoth moneyhat to keep BioShock out of Sony’s waters. And the extra content originally planned for the PS3 version? You just might see that on a potential Game of the Year edition for the 360.”
Guess we’ll have to settle for the PC version or pick up a 360.
Is anyone else disheartened about this practice? I plan on getting a 360 and all, but the fact that Microsoft is literally just shelling out money to keep exclusive rights on just about everything seems to be a little crappy to the gaming scene as a whole. I understand developers keeping software off of the PS3 due to the lower sales rates (compared to other current-gen consoles), but when a company with a hell of a lot of money starts paying off publishing companies for exclusives, is that really fair to the gaming scene? What do you think?
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It’s kind of disheartening that money speaks so much more loudly than anything else these days. I’m sure the same happened with Bioware’s Mass Effect and Mystwalker’s (a Microsoft funded developer) Blue Dragon.
Pathetic microsoft…..
It’s starting to disrupt the gaming peace that has been sleeping for some time now. I just don’t understand why Microsoft needs to have so many exclusives. I can’t understand why Bill Gates needs more money, I hope that something really sad happens to him soon, since neither him or Microsoft deserves it.
I think that it’s finally time for me to roll Linux.