No Haze for Xbox 360 or PC
PS3 exclusive, now and forever.
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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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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Good luck with GTA and MGS around
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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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I had a hands on when they brought a playable tech demo to Nott's for Gamecity...was really disappointing.
It was early stages though, so shall see.
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Sony had betterpull their finger out and drop the price of the PS3 to below £220 by the time LBP comes out!
That, Haze Warhawk, Ratchet and Clank, and Motorstorm will convince me to get one, as long as the price of the console is reasonable!
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Quite surprising, actually, I guess Sony must have paid them quite a lot of dough.
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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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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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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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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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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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Unlucky, lads
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Hopefully it will be the kind of game that will get better the more you play it. But my 15 mins or so with it certainly didn't make me go "wow".
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Ubi have missed a trick with this one, exclusive on the wrong system.
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only know in time.
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@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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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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And now "360 doesn't have enough shooters!"
Can MS win either way?
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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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There is some irony in there but I can't really put my finger on it...
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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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@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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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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*sigh*
/deletes misinformation...
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What's that post all about?
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Burnout Revenge
Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
Final Fantasy XI
Godfather
Need for Speed Most Wanted
Test Drive Unlimited
Tony Hawk's American Wasteland
You're joking, right?
Why are so many people down on this game? I think you're forgetting Free Radical Design have great list of games under their belt so what makes Haze this flop you seem to think it will be?
Too many development troubles, hence the delays.
Too many promotional videos telling us how great the game is supposed to be.
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Plus three billion. This is Free Radical, people. Free Radical as in Free 'Timesplitters 2' Radical?
Some major fucking negativity on here today.
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Sony consoles just don't accomodate FPS.
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No, this is far more likely to be a simple case of Sony bundling Ubi a load of cash to keep this game PS3 exclusive. And really, you have to assume that the main reason sony would do that is that they believe Haze has a decent chance of shifting some PS3 boxes if it's kept a console exclusive.
I'm personally not really sure what to make of this game - Timesplitters 2 was great; Future Perfect slightly less so. Whether Haze will stand up to scrutiny against Bioshock, Crysis, COD4 or even Halo 3 is far from certain, I'd say.
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Support the nation and all that, these are the best FPS developers working in the UK today and people think their next game will be easy to dismiss, pathetic.
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Looked decent and I would probably have played it as I'm a fan of most Free Radical games, but I'm not gonna lose sleep over not being able to play it.
If it had been Timesplitters 4 though I would have been mighty pissed!
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Either it is poor and Ubi is trying to make more money with a money hat, or it's actually quite good and Sony chucked the money hat because of this. I'm currently inclined towards the latter.
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seems to happen a lot on eurogamer
'I just popped into this comment section to declare my feelings on this game I have no interest in, 'meh', thanks for listening'
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Flirt with US gamers by getting an exclusive from a big UK developer?
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Sony consoles just don't accomodate FPS.
That a matter of opinion rather then fact i presonally prefer the PS3 controler for FPS games the weeker spring and smaller dead zone allow you to be far more accurate espesially when snipeing, however the weeker is probably what alot of people don't like as it takes a little long to get used to the feel.
EDIT:// LOL just noticed that L42yB managed to include Frame City Killer in his list of 360 exclusives when the game was canned over a year ago!!! also nice inclusion of Oblivion despite it being on PS3 too - I'll let him the games that on PC too
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"the source of the information is vague, no-one is quoted and nothing official has been said. is it really true?"
what?!
you think they have professional journalists writing these articles or something?
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No..., an FPS exclusive. I mean, 360's is the shooters box, and PS the jRPG box, or this is a mad world indeed ?
"EDIT:// LOL just noticed that L42yB managed to include Frame City Killer in his list of 360 exclusives when the game was canned over a year ago!!!"
yet, you forgot to mention that he stated DMC4 is a PS3 exclusive.
"'I just popped into this comment section to declare my feelings on this game I have no interest in, 'meh', thanks for listening' "
Re-vesit Halo 3 thread and you might see unsuspicious ppl doing the same
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The loss of multiformat certainly casts doubt on the title being AAA material - haven't heard of any official PS3 bundles sporting this title as a sweetener either.
/is concerned
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I don't know, but perhaps there was a change in the month or so, since the interview must have been taken place?
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They might be better off sitting on it until the coast is clear or it runs the risk of quietly slipping away. Though if asked is this one of the big ones for the year for the PS3, I'd say no it's not, that's Metal Gear Solid 4 terrority that, just as in the same way I'd consider Fable 2 to be among the big guns for the 360.
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What??????
The sticks are waaaay to loose and the dead zone is fecking massive towards the 360 pad, add into the fact at the moment there is no rumble and the triggers are shite for fps's I don't know where your coming from.
And befor you start I own both consoles.
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As do I, and as I also said it's a matter personal preference. I also currently find Resistance to be more fun online then Halo 3, though I play both a lot! This biggest problem I have is that the pads and game speeds are very different so if i switch from one to the other takes a while to get back in the swing of it
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My guess is that Ubi isn't confident it'll sell well enough to warrant ports.
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Devil May Cry 4"
Errrr
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I think they're a bit ashamed that they popped their thirdparty exclusive cherry (so to speak) with an FPS who's devlopement history you might charitablly term as "troubled". Like in meant to come out six months ago troubled.
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1. The game has turned out to be a bit special and Sony want it exclusive to take full advantage and shift consoles.
2. It's utter toilet, the whole thing has gone wrong, they know it's going to bomb, so Ubisoft have decided to cut their losses and ditch the ports.
Could be either tbh.
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I sense bitterness in the air
Dont worry, at least Unreal Tournament 3 is coming
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Second - having played Haze at the Play Live event - it's looking pretty awesome. The tree stuff looks a little disappointing after Crysis (but what FPS tree section wouldn't?) but the graphics and gameplay are solid. Chuck in the 4 player splitscreen and tons of multi-player options and I think this is gonna be a classic.
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Shame, Haze is looking really good.
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/off to play the brilliant Patapon
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That's not to say there aren't titles on PS3 that I fancy the look of....just this isn't one of them
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I thought at the time when I noticed that they only had it playing on PS3 "I guess they have given up on the 360 version" and the poor PS3 owners might as well have an exclusive, we 360 gamers have enough to play and more to look forward to!
Aslong as Free Radical still put Timesplitters 4 on 360 im happy
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Every shooter will be compared to it for the next 18 months or until something better comes along and to put something on the market that is as good as Call of Duty 3 will not be good enough.
I imagine various developers went home to cry into their pillows when CoD 4 was released.
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Bull.
COD4 on 360 and ps3 feels like a different game because of the deadzone and loosness on the ps3 pad.(so does rsv)
Don't say its the developers fault,why would they cripple one formats version of the same game.
Oh and the triggers is all the developers fault too??? and the rumble, no I know thats sarcy but I hate it when people
can't admit the design of the sony controller is well past its best now, sure it was the bee's knee's when it first arrived halfway through the ps1's life but to have no real development in over ten years is a piss take.
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While I agree with you that the PS3 controller sucks (I hate the shape, the feel, everything... it's just not comfortable).
HOWEVER, I do need to point out that the deadzones of the thumbsticks are definitely controlled by software. And the devs have the ability to adjust it. 100% certain about that
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