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Just in case there was any lingering doubt, it's been confirmed that Haze is a PlayStation 3 exclusive and will remain so in the future.
According to Ripten, confirmation came from two Ubisoft representatives at the Play.com event in London.
So much for talk that Xbox 360 and PC versions would be released a while after the game came out on PS3. Apparently the decision to lock the game down for Sony's console was made recently, and is final.
Ubisoft was unavailable for further comment when contacted this morning.
Haze is due to arrive in Q1 of Ubisoft's financial year, so some time between the start of April and the end of June.
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DutchDemons
17/03/08 @ 12:09
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hmm, wasn't expecting this...making a game PS3 exclusive seems a bit...off these days.
But hey, good thing for the ' Only Sony camp' ...now they too can claim a (probably) generic shooter as 100% theirs!
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Inquisitor
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17/03/08 @ 12:13
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If it was made it had to be made recently since work had been ongoing on PC and 360 versions for a long long time.
I suspect both versions are only around 5 or 6 months development time behind the PS3 verison aswell (since the exclusive announcement was made I expect the devs concentrated on the PS3 version). Seems a shame to throw out that code aswell as dissapoint the 360 and PC owners but if sony have thrown a big money hat at ubi I guess it's game over. |
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Britesparc
17/03/08 @ 12:18
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That's a shame, I was quite looking forward to it. Although the more I see of it the less impressive it looks, I imagine it'll be a fairly competent, above-average shooter, and those things are always good for a laugh.
Quite surprising, actually, I guess Sony must have paid them quite a lot of dough.
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Inquisitor
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17/03/08 @ 12:20
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To be honest it's a franlkly baffeling decision on both sony and ubis part.
I could understand the need for a PS3 exclusive shooter back when halo 3 came out, but this is going to run right into either MGS 4, Gta 4, or even worse, resistance or killzone 2. If it gets close to any of those games I really fear for it, I don't think they expected the delay, it's the only explanation I can give for such a silly course of action. |
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SeesThroughAll
17/03/08 @ 12:26
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Translation: The game is turning out to be... underwhelming, so we don't want to spend any more money porting it. We'll just release it on the PS3, hope to get our money back and pretend the whole thing never happened.
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I have to agree with Inquisitor, with the delays the game has already seen I'd think it's more likely that they don't think it will sell well on 360 or PC 6 months after it finally comes out on PS3.
Still good news doe Sony if it turns out to be good and given Freeradicles past it has a good chance of being very good. |
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@SeesThroughAll - That was exactly what I thought too upon reading the article! LOL
I hope I'm wrong though because I thought the footage I've seen looked promising and Free Radical are pretty decent developers so the game could turn out to be great. I suspect if it is critically acclaimed and sells exceptionally well, it'll end up on the 360 and PC at a later date though. |
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AwesomeWells
17/03/08 @ 12:35
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Meh-tacular. No real loss for the PC/360 market and not a particularly inspiring gain for the PS3.
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I love peoples comments along the lines of "oh well was going to be rubbish anyway" as soon as a game either goes exclusives or looses exclusivity. surely waiting to see how it turns out would be better.
Personally I'm still looking forward to this as enjoyed Golden eye and the Time splitters games, but then it could be a swing and a miss in which case i'll not bother getting it! |
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SomaticSense
17/03/08 @ 12:43
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Properly gutted about this.
Splinter Cell better be fucking amazing, or else I don't think I'll ever be able to forgive Ubi for this one :( |
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alimokrane
17/03/08 @ 12:51
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Does anyone care about HAZE anymore ??? it has been delayed so mcuh that I dont give a flying f*** about it being exclusive or not.
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muscleblade
17/03/08 @ 12:54
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Dont care at all. To many good games on the 360 as it is. Dont have time to play all the good games out anyway.
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Inquisitor
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17/03/08 @ 13:02
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That's what I don't get, if anything it's the 360 in need of some first class shooters this year. Resistance and killzone should be decent at least, I can't think of any exclusive 360 fps this year.
Ubi have missed a trick with this one, exclusive on the wrong system. |
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BillyBrush
17/03/08 @ 13:09
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Shame...it'll prob be decent, worth a play at least
@Inquisitor - you'll be struggling saying 360 doesn't have a better lineup of shooters to be honest, there are things like Gears2 and Bioshock, but more inportantly the R6 vegases/Orange boxes/Project origin's/Farcry2's do and probably will run a lil better on one console and with one pad MS's big exclusive Halo3 was last year but anyway neither platform holder has the best FPS which is Half life series, since that works a bit better on 360 it'll take the crown on that one....but it is lookign short on tactical espionage action.. |
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17/03/08 @ 13:11
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I'm not struggling.
Look, almost all the 360 fps this year will be out on the PS3 too, okay, gears, but that's hardly an fps (though I'll admit genre cross over). The PS3 had 2 big exclusives before this, point to the 360 exclusive fps this year? There isn't any, now the PS3 has 3 exclusive shooters, overkill for that console and the 360 is lacking in this regard this year. |
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keyboardmonkey
17/03/08 @ 13:16
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but this is going to run right into either MGS 4, Gta 4, or even worse, resistance or killzone 2.
If it gets close to any of those games I really fear for it, I don't think they expected the delay, it's the only explanation I can give for such a silly course of action. I think you are slightly right but the reason they bought it could be for the delays to other software e.g. Resistance , Killzone 2, Haze could be used to fill a gap in the up coming games if one of these slips.
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keyboardmonkey
17/03/08 @ 13:24
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Let us hope Sony wasn't sold on a Rendered preview of what they expect the game to look like.
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Either SeesThruAll is right and they have scrapped the projects for PC and 360 (which we know they have already spent a lot of cash on), or this is a big fat lie to try and shift more PS3s...
I expect that either this game is a complete pile of dog poo, or that we will be seeing it on at least the PC in the near future. It just doesn't make business sense to limit yourself to the console with the lowest sales and attach rate. |
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BillyBrush
17/03/08 @ 14:00
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I think it'll turn out decent tbh...would be worth a play and can only be a good thing for PS3 (if it is bad it's still 1 game Xbox doesn't have, like TenchuZ, some people will like it (i loved Tench Z myself despite being regarded as shite))
@Inquisitor, i guess what i was getting at was Orange box is the nr1 FPS, it's on both consoles sure but works a bit better on 360, so even not having the same number of exclusive FPS games coming out, it's still going to be the daddy for that type of game...imo |
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hannibaldave
17/03/08 @ 14:02
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Nice to see a PS3 exclusive. Perhaps next time it'll be something worth caring about.
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This game looks good, but to be honest, I've never been truely hyped about it. Can't really see the draw this would have on the PC and 360 anyway, with so many quality shooters available this wouldn't be missed. Though it would obviously be a welcome gem for the PS3 which isn't known for good shooters.
I'll probably own a PS3 in a year or so anyway, but I doubt I'll even get it. So...meh. |
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