Late Night Consoling

http://www.bungie.net/News/TopStory.aspx?story=maptacular&p=2747963

Bungie Update that addresses everyone about new halo 2 content... No hang em high or sidewinder.. sorry lads!

IM SO PISSED AT NAMCO WHAT ARE YOU DOING YOU MOTHER FUCKERS GOD DAMMIT SOUL CALIBER DESERVES XBOX TREATMENT DONT YOU ASSHOLES RUIN MY DREAM AND HOPE OF ONLINE PLAY WITH SOUL CALIBER WHY DO YOU DO THIS TO ME WHEN THE SOUL STILL BURNS SON OF A BITCHES

ya know, i could understand namco maybe making soul calibur 3 a ps3 exclusive, launch title or whatever. that would make sense. but the ps2? ugh.

soul calibur 1 was known not only for it's incredible gameplay, but also for the incredible graphics, visuals, and animation. it set the standard for graphics on the dreamcast, and even today looks stunning compared to many of the current games available.

even now, soul calibur 1 on dreamcast looks a hell of a lot better than soul calibur 2 on ps2. no question.

the ps2 is a technically inferior system. there is no debating that, and soon to be replaced with the ps3. i just don't understand this mess. i know it comes down to money but seriously, this is a stupid decision by namco.

i am a HUGE soul calibur fan, i know 1 and 2 inside and out. but there is no way i will play sou calibur 3 if it is only available on the ps2. no way.

I can't help but feel that dark clouds are gathering over the DS already...

Sony's just trying to cling to the last developers they can before Microsoft gets them all. If Namco went to Microsoft then there'd be no reason to ever buy a third party game on the PS2 again. As it is, pretty much the only reasons to keep around the PS2 at this point are games like GT4, God of War, and Wanda and the Colossus, at least for me. Jak 3 was pretty good too, but platformers are pretty old imo.

looks like namco took the money and ran. props to sony for doing what they do best.

Aside from all the pissing an whining in here like babies with tourettes...

The "make your own PSP" thing sounds pretty cool.

Is this the start of possibly seeing emulated games, such as, NES/SNES/SEGA, etc? Hell even MAME arcade games could be umulated on it.

And how would the DS/GBA fare knowing you can get free emulated classics they charge for on the PSP? If this does happen that is.

I smell a grey area of lawsuits (even thought they dont mess with the PC market, go figure).

Soul Calibur II US:

GC - 778,821
PS2 - 723,377
Xbox - 520,113

And the GC version sold about 1.5 Million copies worldwide.

Why make this an exclusive? Well if something good comes of this it's an interesting experiment seeing how many copies a exclusive PS2 SC will sell compared to one where people could pick their favorite characters since alot of people own a PS2 and a XBOX/GC.

dear bungie,
where's your halo2 content? i bought your game in november and multiplayer got stale in january. are you going to wait until we've all moved on?

heart,
fraylo

This is obvious but.... memory sticks (or writeable flash memory in general) are the future of Handhelds. :D

I'm not at all interested in a SC for the current round of consoles (Unless it's a Live version). I'll get excited for SCIV I guess. I dont see how they could make that much of an improvement anyway.

Guess Sony must have bankrolled the hell out of them for this. It's really a good move on their part.

lol, I submitted that console game like over a year ago at least

You know, maybe they made it an exclusive because it had so little added to it. Then in a while they can add a little more (like xbox live) and sell a lot more on that system ... maybe even call it SC3Live or something where it is almost the same, but not really.

I am not sure what they could do with Big N, maybe something with revolution (or whatever it will be)

no Tekken 5... and Soul Calibur 3... Namco sucks :(

New Ghost Recon 2 content already? Wow. That's a decent amount of [free] content released in a short amount of time. I guess patience is the key.

how much money did those Sony bastards give you Namco? I'll double it!

psp envy