Ubisoft to distribute Soul Caliburs

By Tom Bramwell Published 10 January, 2008

For PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii.

Ubisoft has signed up to distribute Soulcalibur IV for PS3 and Xbox 360 and Soulcalibur Legends for Wii. All three SKUs will be released in summer 2008. Did you like our use of "SKUs" there? We always feel clever when we say SKUs.

It's been a fun old day for those of you watching after Soulcalibur IV, which still can't seem to make its mind up about whether there's a space between "Soul" and "calibur", so we're going to be inconsistent too. Soul Calibur IV will have Darth Vader in it on PS3 and Yoda in it on Xbox 360. Did you know that? Oh. Better watch the video, then.

There's lots of other videos and information on the Xbox 360 and PS3 gamepages, too.

As for Soul Calibur Legends, it's a bit different to the regular beat-'em-ups, using the Wiimote and Nunchuk to fight. You can get a better idea watching the videos hidden away on its own gamepage, actually. And we wish you would, because that way we can go home.

Anyway, watch out for both in Europe this summer.

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About Tom Bramwell

Tom is Operations director of Eurogamer Network and Editor-at-Large of Eurogamer.net. He joined the company in February 2000.

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Comments (18) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • MBar #1 4 years ago

    Yay for going home!

  • Derblington #2 4 years ago

    Fucksocks. EA normally publish Namco titles in Europe :(

  • DaftVice #3 4 years ago

    I want, nay, need to play as Altair. Make it so Ubisoft!!!!!!

  • Ultra238a #4 4 years ago

    Darth Vader on the PS3 version - :) welcome to the dark side Lord Vader

  • Kryon #5 4 years ago

    Yoda or Darth...hmm..Hard decision, I'd usually pick Vader but then I'd have to play the game with Jaggies...

  • GamesProgrammer Verified Games Team Programmer, Eutechnyx Ltd. #6 4 years ago

    Nice peice of trolling Kryon

    /Ignore

  • paulf #7 4 years ago

    what a dull headline - surely it should be something along the lines of 'omg yoda in soul calibur !!!!!' :)

  • SirClive #8 4 years ago

    What is SKU?

  • Muddtallica #9 4 years ago

    Shame the Wii version is, from all accounts, a pile of ass - it sounded like a potentially fun concept. Ah well: I can still look forward to the real IV, which I suspect will arrive just in time to ruin my exams. Good times. :)

  • Kazzahdrane #10 4 years ago

    SKU - Stock Keeping Unit

    It's basically a retail acronym which has (somehow) started being used in the games industry. Basically it means a different thing that retailers will stock, i.e. usually a different barcode or something. So a game like Bioshock and it's Limited Edition would be two different SKUs. Better example: there are currently 4 Nintendogs SKUs on the market.

  • aine #11 4 years ago

    please don't say SKU again. it sounds awful and american and ridiculous, especially when used outside a retail context.

  • Nikanoru #12 4 years ago

    That'll be shit then. Needless wiimote use FTL.

    That's a bad, close-minded attitude, the same kind that leads to stagnation in the industry.

    Motion controls can add a lot if done well. SC Legends just isn't.
    Edited by 1 at 10/01/08 @ 21:12

  • Kami #13 4 years ago

    "That'll be shit then. Needless wiimote use FTL. Smash Bros has GC pad enabled for a reason. So far the only games that actually need the sodding thing are MP3 and Z&W."

    And Resident Evil 4.

    The problem with controls is the shoehorning that is initially done, trying to work around mechanics provided or ignoring them completely. The Wii suffers most from this for the simple reason that the concept - whilst we generally accept as being not new since infra-red screen detection has been done with light guns and the like - has rarely really progressed outside particular genres of game. I'm sure people will hit on sweet spots in the end and prove such mechanics are more long-term and not all cheap gimmicks, but until then they're not going to care. There is no need to risk trying new concepts when people will buy it anyway.

    But off the point the bit. Legends might actually make it work. It may not. Time will tell. I'm not entirely sure about Star Wars getting involved in the SC thing though. SCIV really needs to work on the mechanics above cheap gimmicks - and it is more of a gimmick than the Wii controls. The Wii controls have some point to them, we can see flashes of genius in the way they're used. Yoda and Darth Vader in SC4? Not so much genius as screaming "Look at me! LOOK AT MEEEEEEE!"

  • bdgr #14 4 years ago

    Not so much genius as screaming "Look at me! LOOK AT MEEEEEEE!"

    I agree - SC previously had Spawn and Link as special characters in the GC and Xbox versions.

    Although Darth is way cooler!! :D

  • miiiguel #15 4 years ago

    I find it an "old-timer" approach when one says "no online for me"; "don't mention the word onli...". C'mon, we can't be that attached to the past, yeah it was cool to drag friends over to matches, but now one can just get out of bed on a Sunday morning and kick some teeth before having a coffee, is that bad?

    By the way, Virtua Fighter (online; with Hori controller) is the daddy... .
    Edited by 2 at 10/01/08 @ 22:16

  • Steroyd #16 4 years ago

    It's not bad but I don't like people.

  • BoffBoff #17 4 years ago

    You must be thinking of DPV's (Different Platform Versions)
    Get with the times!

  • Feanor #18 4 years ago

    "please don't say SKU again. it sounds awful and american and ridiculous, especially when used outside a retail context."

    FUCK SKU.