Capcom responds to PS3 fanboys

By Robert Purchese Published 26 March, 2007

DMC4 stokes Internet rage.

Capcom has officially responded to allegations that it was "turning its back" on Sony by denying PS3 an exclusive in Devil May Cry 4.

Senior director of strategic planning and research for the game giant, Christian Svensson, insisted making the title as widely available as possible was the best decision for Capcom.

"We are certainly moved that people are so passionate about our products that they would go to such extremes," Svensson responded on the Capcom forums. "At the same time we feel that allowing more people access to our content pleases far more people than it displeases (after all, we're not denying DMC4 to anyone that was already going to get it)."

"It really is the best decision for the company and for consumers."

Outrage erupted after Capcom announced it would be bringing DMC4 to Xbox 360 and PC just a few days before the PlayStation 3 launch in Europe.

The move scores Microsoft another exclusive-pinching point, famously joining Grand Theft Auto IV and Pro Evolution Soccer on the Xbox 360.

DMC4 will launch on both consoles simultaneously, with the PC version expected a little later. A release date is yet to be confirmed.

Pop over to our Devil May Cry 4 gamepage for more information.

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  • NthSimulachum #1 5 years ago

    So that leaves MGS and FFXIII...

  • Steroyd #2 5 years ago

    Oh yeah that is the definition of sad. :/

    And i thought Nintendo fanboys were bad.

  • Johnson #3 5 years ago

    Yeah.

    *looks at watch*

  • Overlush #4 5 years ago

    Get over it guys - it's a cheap BR player not an 'exclusive' games console - deal with it!

  • chrisjm #5 5 years ago

    i hope namco do the same with Tekken

  • Macross #6 5 years ago

    I for one am glad il be buying this on my 360, as to be honest having played on the PS3 in the office Im not that bothered just yet.

    Now ask me again in the autumn and hopefully il be busy shaking the moths out and joinging the bandwagon.

  • Walshicus #7 5 years ago

    Fanboy May Cry

  • AcidSnake #8 5 years ago

    Capcom's right here ofcourse...
    The more the merrier...

    Although I can understand why the fanboys are all riled-up about it...

  • Tonka #9 5 years ago

    Since when did Capcom == Sony anyway? This is just plain stupid.

  • thepiedpiper #10 5 years ago

    ner ner gutted

  • Rayn #11 5 years ago

    "Oh noes, someone who doesn't have a PS3 can play this game too??? OBJECTION" WTF O.o ????

  • Zuiyo #12 5 years ago

    OMG LOL

  • PearOfAnguish #13 5 years ago

    Wha...? I don't get it. They're angry because other people get to play? Would they prefer the company goes bankrupt?

    The logical conclusion is that Capcom fans are only-children who are not used to sharing their toys.

    "Sony is gonna use all sorts of hardware tricks and effects that only the PS3 can do to keep them from being ported"

    But Sony isn't developing the game, and it would hardly be difficult to remove these exclusive features from a port. Is there even anything the PS3 can do that the Xbox can't?
    Edited by 1 at 26/03/07 @ 11:28

  • Paulanator #14 5 years ago

    Yeah, why shouldn't Capcome release it on 360 too.

    You only have to look at the sucess of Lost Planet and Dead Rising (both number 1s and platinum sellers) to see why they did it.

    Can't wait to see what the Sony bum-boys do when FFXIII OR MGS4 come over to the 360...

  • Dizzy #15 5 years ago

    "Which won't come to the Xbox360, Sony is gonna use all sorts of hardware tricks and effects that only the PS3 can do to keep them from being ported "

    Hehehe.. like what?

    >Fanboy May Cry

    ROFL

  • Kuma #16 5 years ago

    @Chrisjm "i hope namco do the same with Tekken"

    I agree matey, Tekken on 360 would be bang on! ;-)

  • AcidSnake #17 5 years ago

    I linked to this a few days back actually:

    FFXIII exclusivity uncertain

    So that just leaves Metal Gear...

    EDIT: GramR Ror
    Edited by 1 at 26/03/07 @ 11:31

  • PearOfAnguish #18 5 years ago

    Yes, Grant, you said that already. Did you not notice the several comments poking fun at you for your outrageously ridiculous lies?

    And what will it do that the 360 can't? Have amazing NEXT GENERATION BLU-RAY FEATURES, like erm...picture-in-picture?
    Edited by 1 at 26/03/07 @ 11:31

  • kissthestick #19 5 years ago

    and to make matters worse:

    POSTER: What I am wondering, is since Capcom has claimed "Capcom is committed to making its titles available to as wide an audience as possible," does that mean Capcom will be making games that were exclusive to the Xbox 360 cross platform as they did with Devil May Cry or is that quote from Capcom more of just a PR man doing their job? Thanks


    SVEN: A good and fair question.

    The answer is that despite recognizing the demand for them, Dead Rising and Lost Planet are not slated to appear on Wii or PS3. The reasons for this are quite convoluted and I'm bound by NDAs on these matters so I can't divulge why this is the situation.

    http://ww w.capcom.com/BBS/showpost.php?p...

  • PearOfAnguish #20 5 years ago

    "I'm only going by with what I know about the hardware capabilities of both consoles"

    Which is very little, clearly.

    You're going to have to be much more specific about the amazing features of the PS3.

  • Talha #21 5 years ago

    Didn't DMC3 come out on PC? I think I saw a box somewhere - or I must be mistaken.

  • octo #22 5 years ago

    Fanatacism is a funny thing.

  • PatriotGun #23 5 years ago

    Glad I`ll be able to play it on my 360, been a fan seen DMC1.

    DMC3 SP was released on PC and no fanboy complained, so it`s pretty much assured that the 360 version is the one they`re angry about.

    Theses guys don`t love games, they are brainless stupid pieces of nothing that go smiling with everything sony says.

    This way everyone will be able to play the game and that is great.

    I have a 360 and i`m gonna buy a PS3 and I don`t see the problem here.

    PS : Kojima said that with more time and money a 360 version of MGS4 is possible even if they ahve to cut down some stuff.

    PS2 : Fanboyism is sick, get a life!
    Edited by 1 at 26/03/07 @ 11:40

  • Paulanator #24 5 years ago

    "They won't, I'm not saying this to be a Sony fanboy, but Sony's gonna use stuff the PS3 can do that the Xbox360 can't do on those games to keep them from being ported"

    @GrantM

    The only advantage the PS3 has over the 360 is greater capacity on its Blu-Ray discs. As such, the worst case scenario would simply be having FFXIII OR MGS4 on multiple DVDs. No big deal really.

    Konami and Square will make it happen if they really want it to.

  • Danoxth #25 5 years ago

    Tekken on 360 would be great, let alone if it had live capability.

  • kissthestick #26 5 years ago

    btw im pretty sure the PC version of DMC4 wont be gimped like DMC3, since the 4th installment will be developed internally unlike DMC3 (which was Ubisoft)
    Edited by 1 at 26/03/07 @ 11:41

  • Zuiyo #27 5 years ago

    GrantM, there was a Street Fighter Zero 2 version for Super Famicom which played rather well.

    And I have Raiden III on my MOBILE PHONE.

    My point is, you can port any game to any platform with relative success, and you can definitely port any 360 game to the PS3 and viceversa. Can there be minimal differences... like graphic differences? Well yes, but they will not amount to any obstacle to the experience.

    Don't believe the PR hype.

  • Paulanator #28 5 years ago

    "Didn't DMC3 come out on PC? I think I saw a box somewhere - or I must be mistaken."


    Yes it did come out on PC, but like most other Capcom ports to PC (Onimusha 3 and Resi 4) it turned out shit. Hopefully, DMC4 will be a different story...

  • sharpfish #29 5 years ago

    factoid: There is NOTHING the GPU of the PS3 can do that the 360's superior GPU can not do. The cell is merely throwing more (convoluted) processing power at graphics hungry soloutions and is nothing special in this context. If anything the 360 has the upper hand with graphical tricks/capacity - however, in either case the devs would/could remove features to enable a port as they have always done.

    Sony Fanboys: 'Devil may cry' me a river ;P


  • Moz #30 5 years ago

    I'm pro multi-platform, but does the simultaniouse release mean that is going to come out later? Are PS3 owners seeing a delay in when they get the game? Why not do the same as VF5 or in the other direction GRAW2 and release each version as it's ready?

  • ZuluHero #31 5 years ago

    well capcom are running a business at the end of the day, so get over it!

  • miiiguel #32 5 years ago

    GrantM: Actually I think you read the other way arround: "http://ww w.joystiq.com/2005/11/16/kojima...

  • PatriotGun #33 5 years ago

    Someone said in another article comment [can`t remember the name of the person] that sony could jump on your mother that you would still be laughing.

    I think more than ever he is right!

  • miiiguel #34 5 years ago

    And quoting the article:
    "Don't be a victim of hype"

  • AcidSnake #35 5 years ago

    @GrantM:
    Look at my previous post, FFXIII's exclusivity is already under discussion...
    Not attacking you or anything, just reminding that ports are almost always feasible like Zuiyo pointed out...

  • Weezer #36 5 years ago

    If you were Capcom what would you do? Spend millions on a game that you can only sell to a couple of million gamers - or do it cross-platform and increase your potential audience and income by a factor of five and upwards?

    Sony fanboys are teh fuckwits.

  • SomaticSense #37 5 years ago

    You'd think it wasn't coming out on the PS3 at all. Yet it is, so why the fuck should they care?

    Christ. Someone donate these people a life......

  • SeesThroughAll #38 5 years ago

    How can any gamer be pissed that a game is just not an exclusive any more?? It's not like it was cancelled, FFS!

    Pathetic stuff.

    Don't PS3 fanboys have better things to do than whine?

    /boots MotorStorm

  • PatriotGun #39 5 years ago

    I think it`s time for a petition saying we will buy the game.

    If sonyfanboys are not gonna buy it, let`s ask CAPCOM to not waste money and make it a 360 exclusive.

    MUWAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

  • Spiral #40 5 years ago

    I love the quote from the Capcom Exec when he locks the thread:

    "I'm trying to decide if it's worth keeping this thread open... it seems to have run its course, gone off course, rolled down a cliff, hit a cow and then exploded. "
    Edited by 1 at 26/03/07 @ 12:19

  • Moz #41 5 years ago

    I think people are affraid of their chosen console, going the same way as the Sega Saturn or the Dreamcast. But then owning either of those wasn't a waist of money still had plenty of very good exclusives over a number of years.

    Though I'd much prefer to see a more even split between X360 and PS3
    Like Megadrive vs SNES, having one overly domenent system, is just bad generally

  • Zuiyo #42 5 years ago

    Multiplatform is great. I want a 33% market share for each platform and 8 quid RRPPs for new games plus compatibility patches so we can all play online together.

    And 120 mb optical fiber broadband as minimum worldwide standard.

    And Hillary at the White House for two legislatures. Then we would be talking.

  • Eighthours #43 5 years ago

    This whole row is beyond pathetic.

  • SeesThroughAll #44 5 years ago

    Though I'd much prefer to see a more even split between X360 and PS3
    Like Megadrive vs SNES, having one overly domenent system, is just bad generally

    +1 Competition FTW

  • lennon #45 5 years ago

    If you say FF13 and MGS4 cant be done on any other system than the ps3 often enough it makes it true. Didnt you know? ;)

  • Paulanator #46 5 years ago

    I think all 3rd party 'exclusives' are pretty likely to go multi-platform this gen.

    The only way Sony, Nintendo or Microsoft can gurantee an exclusive for their console is if they either:

    a)spend a shit-load of money securing it as an exclusive
    -or-
    b)the game is first patry published/developed

    Why would 3rd party developers chose to hamper their turnover for a game by releasing it on one console? Tis' madness!
    Edited by 1 at 26/03/07 @ 11:58

  • MrChuckles #47 5 years ago

    I doubt anyone will want to develop exclusively for the 3rd place console, especially with the amount of money spent on content for this generation. If the sales of PS3 hardware don't pick up quickly you will end up with no exclusive titles that aren't in house Sony ones.

    Also, remember that any games made on the 360 are 'almost' free to do a reasonable PC port apart from compatibility testing.

    Of course, if the Xbox360 & Wii go from strength to strength, expect to see more exclusive titles on those two machines.

    The reason the PS2 had so many exclusives is because of the user base, nothing to do with the power of the machine.

  • dr_shambles #48 5 years ago

    To me it seems like basic economics. Do you release a game on one platform with a couple of million potential buyers, or across several with over 10 million?

    Erm. Not really a difficult decision really.

  • JediMasterMalik #49 5 years ago

    Fanboys, meh. Doesn't anyone know online petitions never work?

    Capcom shouldn't have responded to such obvious stupidity.

  • AcidSnake #50 5 years ago

    @Paulanator:
    c) The game cannot be done on the other console...
    Applies mostly to wavey games which the Wii has...
    Wario Ware for instance...

    Hey JMM, how's the machine? :)

  • JediMasterMalik #51 5 years ago

    Very nice, only a couple of things I have issue with. 2 really, one that there's no streaming across a wireless network, and another is that the online chatting is borked. Otherwise it's great.

  • Razz #52 5 years ago

    "Fanboy May Cry"

    :D PMSL!

  • chrisjm #53 5 years ago

    just imagine how it will kick off if the 360 version is slightly better....

  • Gurgeh #54 5 years ago

    The White Engine being used for FFXIII is cross-platform. The only thing that will stop it going to the XBox 360 is a wad of Sony cash which Sony haven't coughed up yet.

  • Basselito #55 5 years ago

    "That's not meant to be comedy, I'm serious. Especially with MGS4, didn't Kojima say he was going to use stuff the PS3s Cell processor can do that the Xbox360 cannot do on the game?"

    Ok I read an interview with Hideo Kojima where he said himself that it's nothing with MGS4 technical that wouldn't make it possible to run on the 360.

    How do you explain that?

  • JediMasterMalik #56 5 years ago

    @Gurgeh - Where's your proof? Sakaguchi? Please.

  • lambtron #57 5 years ago

    Seems to me Sony fanboys need to get used to the fact that for the time being at least their machine has a tiny install base and as such can't dictate matters the way it used to.

    Wake up and smell the coffee doofusses.

  • repairmanjack #58 5 years ago

    Big announcement when four little words would have done: "Grow the fuck up."

  • bioreit #59 5 years ago

    @ Zuiyo

    "Hillary at the White House for two legislatures"

    Not when she has Jack 'Moth Nops' Thompson as an adviser on video games.

    If she can have such a rabid lunatic for something like THAT, imagine what her security advisers and military chiefs would be like.

    "I know - let's invade anywhere ending in -stan; they're always too hard to pronounce anyways."

    "But what will be build there instead?"

    "Parking lot?"

    "Get's my vote."

  • [TR] #60 5 years ago

    As much as I don't like MS (not the same as liking Sony), I understand all these PS3 exclusives going over to the 360.
    If I were a publisher I'd look at the next-gen market right now, and excluding the Wii, I bet it's really thin. You have some 10m 360s another 1-2m PS3s.
    As much as Sony can get the PS3 numbers up by year's end (and many of these games will be out before that) it's just not a safe bet for exclusives right now. It doesn't even matter if Sony's to blame for their strategy with PS3 or not.
    MS's year alone in the market has paid off and turned into another year or more of, at least, equal competition with Sony.

  • Stormflood #61 5 years ago

    Tsk... stupid Sony fanboys. Xbox and Nintendo gamers would never make such a fuss if Halo, PGR, Mario, Metroid or Zelda went multi-platform...

  • Dizzy #62 5 years ago

    >if Halo, PGR, Mario, Metroid or Zelda went multi-platform...

    All 1st party titles dude.... apples and oranges.
    Edited by 1 at 26/03/07 @ 12:38

  • JediMasterMalik #63 5 years ago

    They are far bigger titles then DMC though. I mean DMC is a great game, but is never considered a killer app. I find this whole reaction, from all sides in fact over the top and idiotic.

  • SeesThroughAll #64 5 years ago

    Wonga, did you quote yourself? I don't understand...

  • PlugMonkey #65 5 years ago

    "Sony is gonna use all sorts of hardware tricks and effects that only the PS3 can do to keep them from being ported"

    But Sony isn't developing the game, and it would hardly be difficult to remove these exclusive features from a port. Is there even anything the PS3 can do that the Xbox can't?

    50Gb of streaming video? That would seem the obvious answer for MGS and FF...

  • SeesThroughAll #66 5 years ago

    Very nice, only a couple of things I have issue with. 2 really, one that there's no streaming across a wireless network, and another is that the online chatting is borked. Otherwise it's great.

    Hey JMM, got that BT headset already?

  • nickthegun #67 5 years ago

    Im really looking forward to it. Capcom have done some amazing things on the 360, so I hope DMC continues it. Dead Rising is just brilliant and some of the levels and enemies in Lost Planet are just spectacular.

    I mean, jesus, i couldnt give a shit if they released Halo on the PS3 as long as bungie used the money to finance more good games.

  • Netfreak #68 5 years ago

    Good job Capcom. We had enough stupidity from fanboy nonsense.

  • JediMasterMalik #69 5 years ago

    @STA - No, my uncle has a spair headset, I'm gonna try it tonight to see if it works well. If it's bad I may get another, but this should do for now.

  • Moz #70 5 years ago

    "Right, and at the moment, believe it or not, Sony are still the market leaders, the industry is still weighted towards them. So if competition is what you want, then PS3 losing some ground is the way to go. We are getting there, let's hope the fanboy masses with their unconditional love for Sony don't ruin it."

    I totally agree, just seems at the mo, that MS are close to tipping the balance nocking Sony out of the game. But then I guess the online comunity aren't actually representative of the market.

  • JediMasterMalik #71 5 years ago

    Yes, and they are universally acclaimed brilliant games. What's your point?

  • PlugMonkey #72 5 years ago

    Yes, and they are universally acclaimed brilliant games. What's your point?

    Well, my point is that they're not universally acclaimed by me. In fact, they both bore the tits off me with laboriously long cutscenes.

  • deepspacefox #73 5 years ago

    Geez, whats wrong with sharing good games? I was stoked when I heard Resi 4 was coming to the PS2. Exclusives just create more crazy fanboys, and I think we've got quite enough of them already.

    Seriously, I reckon in a year or so the only exclusive games will be the in-house ones.

    If it means I can play Lost Planet & Dead Rising on my PS3, and in a broader sense add to a console's game catalogue, where's the harm?

  • sanctimoniousqf #74 5 years ago

    Most of the 3rd party exclusivity agreements for franchises were initially made when there was only one major player (PS2) and Xbox was just a twinkle in E3's eye... Fast forward to 7 years later, and all of a sudden we have MS as a major player in the field and Sony's offering lagging behind in sales, services and software, despite being the market leader with an instantly recognisable brand.

    The fact that more devs are not renewing their exclusivity agreements with a console manufacturer that has shipped late and doesn't look so hot right now (mere months after launch) should certainly not be surprising. I would be surprised if many previous 3rd party exclusivity agreements exist at all by the end of this generation...

  • lennon #75 5 years ago

    lol

  • capcom23 #76 5 years ago

    stupid fanboys, grrrrr wuff. You also getting exclusive xbox 360 games now stfu you noobs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • capcom23 #77 5 years ago

    btw Tekken sucks!!!!!!!!! Dead or alive rules! Tekken is slugish, ugly. Girl power!

  • Steroyd #78 5 years ago

    <a href=http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?capc ompe>7680 Total Signatures</a>

    Wow!! O_O

  • andycroll #79 5 years ago

    Um, I could be wrong but MGS2 appeared on the Xbox did it not? Not forgetting the Gamecube remake of MGS1. I thought it a bit odd number three didn't make it over to any other consoles.

    Its more a case of what porting takes Konami's (rather eclectic) fancy really, rather than any major technical limitations I can see.

    As for DMC... Meh.

  • lambtron #80 5 years ago

    "7680 Total Signatures

    Wow!! O_O"

    = 7680 people who should be shot in the face as a matter of principle ;).

  • Steroyd #81 5 years ago

    Yeah the mere fact that it's 7860 people not buying it on the PS3 platform means that more sales lean towards Xbox 360 making the situation even worse.

    Retards. ¬_¬

  • Kami #82 5 years ago

    Quote by Stormflood
    Tsk... stupid Sony fanboys. Xbox and Nintendo gamers would never make such a fuss if Halo, PGR, Mario, Metroid or Zelda went multi-platform...

    As someone pointed out, you're talking first party titles there, games that are kinda owned by the companies themselves - odds are pretty good that you're not going to see them wander too far from their spiritual homes. Devil May Cry 4 - as well as MGS4 and FFXIII - are all third-party. Sony don't own these franchises, so the comapnies in question are more or less free to port to other machines. If Sony wants exclusives, they'll have to pay. Until they do, the franchises will be spread across PS3 and 360 to broaden appeal and most importantly, sell more copies so they make more money.

    Pretty simple logic really... trying to think of a Sony first-party title that I'm looking forward to...

    *silence for the next thirty minutes*

  • Steroyd #83 5 years ago

    Xbox and Nintendo gamers would never make such a fuss if Halo, PGR, Mario, Metroid or Zelda went multi-platform...

    RE4 ring a bell?

    Hell go back to the PSone era and i bet it was bloody murder when FFVII went exclusively to PSone.
    Edited by 1 at 26/03/07 @ 14:30

  • thepiedpiper #84 5 years ago

    read this from times online:

    "On past form, the launch of the PlayStation 3 should have provided a guaranteed quick buck for anyone lucky enough to secure a pre-ordered console, but eBay’s pricelist suggests that this time round the touts have misjudged demand.

    When the Xbox 360 and PlayStation Portable arrived they were fetching two or three times their asking prices on the online auction site, but Sony’s latest console is going for about £400, £25 less than the recommended retail price.

    The problem for the PS3 touts is that the console is still readily available on the high street. Delays to the launch in Europe allowed Sony to build up large stocks, including an allocation of 220,000 for the UK.

    “This is by far and away the largest stock allocation for any console launch there has ever been in the UK,” Jonathan Fargher, a Sony spokesman, said. Microsoft supplied an estimated 70,000 Xbox 360s for its UK launch. "

    http://te chnology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/...

  • Steroyd #85 5 years ago

    Oh snap i could save a couple of quid shoping from Ebay...

    ...but it's ebay. :(

  • JediMasterMalik #86 5 years ago

    Pretty simple logic really... trying to think of a Sony first-party title that I'm looking forward to...

    I would SO list you, but one game should be enough.

    The next team Ico game, doesn't even need a name.

  • Foxclose #87 5 years ago

    Hopefully, this petition if anything will show Capcom that the Playstation gaming community is where it really matters. I am so proud to be a Playstation fanboy and supporter! :)

  • Steroyd #88 5 years ago

    *weeps for mankind*

  • nickthegun #89 5 years ago

    In fairness there are equally as many 360 fanboys on there cussing the playstation and the other third is made up of people calling both sets of them retards.

    As a petition, its not exactly going to invoke a policy rethink at board level, but as a snapshot of the gaming populous.......well, it paints a pretty pathetic picture.

  • SeesThroughAll #90 5 years ago

    Pretty simple logic really... trying to think of a Sony first-party title that I'm looking forward to...

    Hmmm... God Of War 3? The next WipeOut (that uses the MotorStorm engine)? Lair? Heavenly Sword? GT5? LittleBigPlanet?

  • Kuma #91 5 years ago

    I bet Capcom are terrified about the loss of 7680 PS3 versions of the game Xbox 360 sales will top a million i reckon if Lost Planet and Dead Rising are anything to go by
    I bet less than 10% of them gimps that signed will actually boycott Capcom products . . . .tossers! :-)

  • Pike #92 5 years ago

    Well, I for one look forward to what is sure to be another wonderful and solid PC-port from Capcom. They really know how to make the most out of powerful PC hardware in that company.
    Edited by 1 at 26/03/07 @ 15:18

  • JackB #93 5 years ago

    This is exactly why being a parent of a 12 year old is the world's toughest job. Their brains aren't fully formed yet.

  • Kami #94 5 years ago

    I look at Heavenly Sword and the likes and don't see anything that really makes me think, "Wow. PS3 is worth the price!" As for Ico and GoW3... screens? Announcements? Any concrete facts as of yet? I'd assume those would be at least a year off yet, if not longer, which is a fair whack of time...

    We always say it, but if Square-Enix announced the much-rumoured FF7 remake for the PS3, a purchase for the majority would be an absolute no-brainer...

  • Xerx3s #95 5 years ago

    I'm with 1up on this one; those people are rather sad.

  • Xerx3s #96 5 years ago

    Which won't come to the Xbox360, Sony is gonna use all sorts of hardware tricks and effects that only the PS3 can do to keep them from being ported

    Apart from the engine being multiplatform compatible.

  • CitizenGeek #97 5 years ago

    Yeah, this is pretty low for Sony fanboys. But, can you imagine what would have happened if it had been the Wii that was in question, rather than PS3? It hardly bares thinking about how the Nintendo drones would respond.

  • JediMasterMalik #98 5 years ago

    I think we should all sign it like this:

    "We have no idea what DMC is, but we like signing petitions which mean nothing to anyone."

    -inspired by NewYork

  • Vic #99 5 years ago

    "The only advantage the PS3 has over the 360 is greater capacity on its Blu-Ray discs".

    Of course love.

  • dirigiblebill #100 5 years ago

    Somebody should make a game about the people who play games. Hold a mirror up to fanboy-kind, sort of thing.

  • simo #101 5 years ago

    From the petition:

    " How dare you, Capcom, of even thinkin of bringing DMC4 to the 360? For the last 2 generations, it has been Sony products that were associated with your success. When RE4 sales became stagnant on the Gamecube, attach rates were better on the PS2. The same applies for the Viewtiful Joe series. What's worse is that you are supporting a company that saw lackluster sales of your port of Onimusha and exclusive title, Dino Crisis 3. Another title that sticks out is MGS2: Substance from Konami. And don't go as far as to say that development costs are also a reason because it has been over a year and still no word of Dead Alive or Lost Odyssey making their way to the PS3. It seems as Microsoft are at work pulling your strings. I always thought the Japenese are loyal and honest towards one another, but I guess the Spirit of Capitalism has blinded you. You may think you are doing a wise choice, but it's the consumer that holds the key to your fates. SONY FANS UNITE!!!!!!!!! THE BOYCOTT SHALL COME INTO FULL SWING!!!!!!!"

    GLOL!!!

  • smelly #102 5 years ago

    Geesus.. some people need to get out more!!! Who the hell cares!! Multi-format games are GOOD for consumers.. It means we dont have to buy overly expensive, underpowered machines just to play a game..



    "It hardly bares thinking about how the Nintendo drones would respond."

    Oh yeah.. they really cried when RE4 went to ps2 too didnt they? Oh, no the didnt, they just shrugged their shoulders and said "meh, means more people get to play a great game".

  • smelly #103 5 years ago

    "Hell go back to the PSone era and i bet it was bloody murder when FFVII went exclusively to PSone."


    HUGE difference!!!

    If it had gone mult-platform and came out on nintendo AND ps1, then there wouldve been no means to complain. But having a game go over to exclusively on another platform.. means you cant play it UNLESS you buy the other system.

    If this had moved from ps3 to 360 exclusive, you can understand the uproar.. But all thats happened is it's gone multi-platform.. which means more people can play the game.

    This is going to happen to the majority of 360/ps3 games.. They'll both (for the most part) get the same games as each other. The reason? Because they're both equally as powered (give or take), and it costs a small fortune to dev on them.

    So it'd be stupid NOT to make all games work on both platforms..

    seriously if yer upset by this.. you need to get a life.
    Edited by 1 at 26/03/07 @ 18:57

  • Mr_Brown #104 5 years ago

    You know things are bad when the fanboys start getting desperate. How can they turn their backs on Sony when their goal from day one was to look after their own interests. They made the right choice as i may pick this up for the 360 now.

  • smelly #105 5 years ago

    Yeah.. And news flash people.. Devs will make games for whichever platforms will make them the most sales.

    They dont care about exclusivity, etc. If you're making a game for the 360 you may as well make it work on ps3, and vice versa. (unless of course one absolutely bombs in sales, in which case then you dont make games for that one).

    Hell .. If the wii does keep selling more than the other two (unlikely - but you never know).. Then you'll see a damn site more games on that than the other two, and you well start seeing a mass exodus of devs moving over to it. As that'd make the most sense - regardless of how much power it does or doesnt have.

  • smelly #106 5 years ago

    So you DONT think developers will make the most games for the platform with the most users then?

    If not, i can lend you some remedial economics books for 6 year olds..

  • TRUTH #107 5 years ago

    Konami did mention in 2005 MGS4 could appear on 360, as it is capable of handling it. This was also repeated by Hideo Kojima, again later in 2005 with these words "...MGS4
    is a possibility (360) as it is technically possible"

    Virtua Tennis, Virtua Fighter 5, Devil May Cry 4, Assassin Creed, Gta 4, Merchanires 2...all once exclusives to PS3 - Not now there not!

    With GT facing Forza Racing + Project Gothem racing 4, Moto GP 07, Final Fantasy facing Mass Effect, Lost Oddysee, Cry-On (by the guy who made Panzaar Dragoon Saga rpg), i thing for gaming 360 is the way.
    Edited by 3 at 29/03/07 @ 17:43

  • Les #108 5 years ago

    "Capcom did mention in 2005 MGS4 could appear on 360, as it is capable of handling it."

    Since when did Capcom take over Konami, you big idiot...

    I recently read an interview with the developers of DMC4 about how the game couldn't be ported to the 360 without serious concessions being made to the game. The interview was of course being taken before this announcement. So there's two possibilities: 1) those guys were talking shit; 2) DMC4 will turn out as a worse game. I fear it's both though...

  • smelly #109 5 years ago

    No-one has yet to answer my question for why anyone cares about this?

    Seriously, I cant see a single reason why this matters jot to anyone?

  • TRUTH #110 5 years ago

    Above - whoops! i meant Konami not Capcom. I corrected the mistake.
    Edited by 1 at 26/03/07 @ 22:13

  • Les #111 5 years ago

    "No-one has yet to answer my question for why anyone cares about this?

    Seriously, I cant see a single reason why this matters jot to anyone?"

    Because multi-platform games are crap. That's why Nintendo's strategy is so great: it's impossible to make crappy ports for its platform. Multi-platform gaming is terrible and will always lead to a suboptimal game. But as it also leads to filled coffers for the publishers in the short term it'll probably never go away.

  • Les #112 5 years ago

    ""Wow. PS3 is worth the price!""

    If you look at any game and think "wow, that console is worth the price" then in my book, you're an idiot.

  • smelly #113 5 years ago

    >Because multi-platform games are crap.


    WTF? Where's your proof in this? It makes bog all difference.

    Sure if you have a multiplaform game which has to work on both hi-spec and lo-spec machines then yes.. it will be (i.e. ps2/xbox or indeed ps3/wii).

    But when the machines are nearly equally specced (360/ps3) then there wont be a jot of difference to the end users.

    Was resi 4 crap because it ended up on wii and ps2? No. Is oblivion crap because it's on ps3/360 (erm, well i think so.. but loads of other people dont), etc etc.

    That's a nonsense argument.

  • smelly #114 5 years ago

    "If you look at any game and think "wow, that console is worth the price" then in my book, you're an idiot."

    Surely the whole point of choosing one console over another is the games?

  • mike_mgoblue #115 5 years ago

    I fully agree,

    The first three Devil May Cry games used Rumble technology that I really did enjoy. Only the Xbox 360 can provide that experience for Devil May Cry 4.

    I will be getting the Xbox 360 version.

    Games released on both systems always have better overall graphics and online features on the Xbox 360.

  • JediMasterMalik #116 5 years ago

    hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.....

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    ha

  • Les #117 5 years ago

    "But when the machines are nearly equally specced (360/ps3) then there wont be a jot of difference to the end users."

    That's the problem, they're not equally specced. They each have their own specific architecture and therefore strengths and weaknesses. Within the 'last gen' CPU architectures were more or less alike (all single core, no SPU's, etc.), now that's no longer the case.

    "Surely the whole point of choosing one console over another is the games?"

    Exactly, you're using the plural.

  • Vin #118 5 years ago

    "7680 Total Signatures"

    Fuck sake. These schmucks don't deserve free speech.

  • zoch #119 5 years ago

    these poeple got not lives