Ghostbusters 360 slips to November News

I wont be buying. To much else out.

To take advantage of the Christmas rush, no doubt.

I dont think this is going to sell very well in the christmas barrage, I thought it was a great little game but this deal has killed its sales I reckon. Those that really wanted it will have imported it already. Its a shame really.

Isn't 6th November the same date Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is released? Regardless, I'd imagine the game will have a hard time getting noticed in the run up to Christmas when it'll be up against dozens of other games. Good luck to it, it's going to need it!

I think October is very crowded in terms of release schedules. May have moved it to a quiter period pre-MW2 release. It's Ghostbusters! It'll sell. I'll be buying it on 360.

To battle with overpriced MW2...publishers are reaching new levels of stupidity this gen

Thats a pal sale lost then, i was good with waiting till october because this thing launching a week before halloween was kind of cool but im gonna import now.

I thought this was out months ago? Lots of people used to play it on my list. Come and gone i think

Yeah, yeah whatevah. Atari are obviously relying on fuddy duddy parents to drive their sales this Christmas.

Modern Warfare 2? That looks a bit violent. Better stick with Ghostbusters.

I have it already, bought it from the US.

Bought it in America and already completed it. Suck it, timed exclusives.

@miiiguel We rock.

If they had released it in the UK over summer they would have made a killing because there was nothing else out! Now it's coming out at the busiest time of the year it will be lost among a lot of better games. Serves them right for messing about with a really stupid timed exclusive deal!

Got a borrowed import copy here too. Not a bad little game, would undoubtedly have been better released in the summer.

Imported this on 360. It's one of the most enjoyable games I've played this year, online and off.

Got my girlfriend to bring a copy over in June! Great game. You aren't big or clever Sony. And your PS3 resolution sucks arse vs 360. "Lets pay for a timed exclusive on something that's shitter on our machine!"

Can anyone recommend a reliable importer? D y'all use Play Asia or is there someplace better?

Awesome piece of marketing this Sony.

Pay through the nose for a timed PS3 exclusive (yet bizarrely non-region locked game) that is now being used as a poster boy for how crappy cross platform games can look on PS3.

Genius.

Crazy decision. They're gonna get eaten alive by MW2!

@ jaluuk: we do :D

@ corposant: I can't help you on that, despite every thing we hear on the internet about obnoxious Live users, truth is, it was an american guy I met on the system who sent me. Guy took the time and effort to do it, and he sent the receipt as he made it clear he wasn't doing it for the money. Was impressed.

Bought it (a US import), played it, loved it, finished it, shelved it. Why would I still care about this now? Honestly, from the title I thought there was going to be a sequel titled "Ghostbusters 360" in november 2010, and then I realised that they meant the game everyone played months ago.

Why do publishers insist on releasing all of their games in fucking November? I haven't got through my backlog from last year yet, and we're already heading for a massive Christmas blockage.
/rant

As for Ghostbusters, I'm sure this can only hurt it. Having played an import version, it seems like it would have had a much better chance as a frivolous summer release. Up against the big-hitters in the holiday season, it's going to look pretty poor.

To be fair, my birthday's 1st December and my quarterly bonus comes through on 20th October, so I am a happy chappy. Even so, they are stupid bunching everything up. GTA new ep released then too (or the disc if you skipped the DLC). Everything will do poorly because so many AAAs are coming out at once. Thank god Batman didn't wait to cash in on Halloween!

I lost all interest the moment I played the ps3 demo, it just wasn't fun for me.

The game was released months ago, why do we have to wait even longer? That's ridiculous! I mean, I've already completed it and very much enjoyed it, but it sucks that other people have to wait so long.

@corposant Videogamesplus is the only importer I trust. They'll get it to you quickly and cheaper than here too.

Eh. I've so lost interest in this game. Especially now it'll be competing with the big releases. One of the bargin bin I think - should only take a few week, after all I've waited this long!

It sucks. It won't sell well. Nobody cares.

Push it back, becomes big seller in the christmas market! then again anythings a big seller in the christmas market!

could careless but the effort is just not worth it

"Awesome piece of marketing this Sony. Pay through the nose for a timed PS3 exclusive"

This game was never a timed exclusive!

Due to financial troubles Atari were going to delay ALL UK versions of the game, but Sony stepped up and published it for the PS2 and PS3 because they did not want to miss the Ghostbusters anniversary movie release.

MS could have done the same for the 360 release but they didnt. Sony are not to blame for the delay and neither are Atari as they are currently balancing on a financial knife edge.

This'll struggle a bit now. It's not exactly a triple A title in the first place.

@ miiiguel and TheTingler. Thanks chaps, much appreciated :-)

As an American, let me say this: y'all aren't missing much.

will buy a £20.

Dirt cheap at play.com (PC version). Have it on pre-order.
Don't care when it comes up for that price.

You can get the region free 360 version on ebay cheap now i paid 33 gbp for mine when it 1st came out.

sorry ATARI Call of duty modern warfare 2 and Dragon Age come before Ghostbusters if you are putting it out on that date..you crazy bastards you

@farticusmaximus
I didn't know that - Thanks for the update man!

who you gonna call...

"This game was never a timed exclusive!

Due to financial troubles Atari were going to delay ALL UK versions of the game, but Sony stepped up and published it for the PS2 and PS3 because they did not want to miss the Ghostbusters anniversary movie release.

MS could have done the same for the 360 release but they didnt. Sony are not to blame for the delay and neither are Atari as they are currently balancing on a financial knife edge. "

@farticus

Wrong, wrong, wrong. There are numerous interviews with principle parties (here's one, for example: http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/mu... ) that show that Atari was paid to let Sony publish the titlefor the PS/2&3 in certain territories if Atari agreed to delay their launch on other platforms in said territories. Besides, are you clear on what a "timed exclusive" is? It's when one of the (in the case of consoles) console manufacturers compensates a publisher for delaying release on the competing formats. Did you see what Sony did there? They paid for the rights to publish the game in Europe/PAL territories, in exchange for Atari delaying the publishing of the Xbox (and Wii, I think) versions in the same territory. What is that if not a timed exclusive? Hmmm?

Sorry for the harsh tone, but people putting silly nonsense up on the "internet" and other people plussing their posts and thanking them, etc. just gets my goat.

/edit - typos, slight change of tone.

After playing the demo (on PS3 & 360) I'm not bothered about any delays...

Got to say that after having it for a few months i'd only give it 5/10 and that is as a Ghostbusters fan

I picked up Xbox 360 version last time I was in US, hurrah for tactical 'region free' release.

Coincidentally just fired it up, been sat in my pile of yet-to-plays for months; it's quite good fun, and great having the original cast doing voice-overs.

Still, the Sony timed exclusive bollocks -- Ghostbusters is a Columbia (Sony Pictures) movie -- is a stupid load of inept corporate strategy. Pathetic.

@ Davisorle

The irony is that you illegally downloading MW2 contributes to its higher price point... and even if piracy doesn't directly affect the cost of MW2, it can still be used by Activision to justify the price hike: "100,000 copies were pirated which has prompted us to increase the price". Many gamers are frustrated about MW2's price but we won't all resort to pirating. Two wrongs don't make a right.

@cyber_nico
Nothing in that article contradicts what Farticus said though. Sony stepped in the publish - that was the deal. The PR man is going to spin it as best he can given the circumstances. When asked about financial difficulties what did you expect an Atari representative to say? "Yes we are up shit creek, have you got a paddle I can borrow?". There is no mention of Sony paying money for the deal. All of the info still fits with what is generally accepted as what happened - and it makes a hell of a lot more sense that Sony shelling out for an exclusive - but just for Europe. Why did they even need to publish it for a start?

The mind boggles, how the heck can you have a release date slip on a product that has been gold for months now?! Not that I really care because I won't be buying it, it's too late, I was interested and call me a bitter old PC fanboy if you must but the way I see it Atari had a choice: they could sell me this game or they could accept Sony's offer to pay them not to sell it to me and they chose the later.

@cyber_nicco

As DrDamn has stated there is nothing in that article, or the second one linked in the text, to suggest that money was payed to make the game exclusive.

The mention of 'timed exclusive' first of all only applies to Europe, and secondly it's not because of any deal to specifically keep it from the other platforms (it's region-free on the 360 after all), it's simply due to the fact that the game didnt have the financial backing to be published in Europe any quicker than it was.


"Sorry for the harsh tone, but people putting silly nonsense up on the "internet" and other people plussing their posts and thanking them, etc. just gets my goat."

Sorry if you think it's silly nonsense, but the only source of info I had was this article, off the back of the original announcement which links to the same gamesindustry.biz article you linked.

I'm not usually one to defend Sony, but it's pretty clear they didn't buy any exclusivity, they just made sure the release for their platforms was not delayed like all the others. Considering the timing of the anniversary Bluray movie release I'd say it was one of their smarter business moves. ;)