Quantic Dream Weaving PS3 Exclusive

Wow thats a great way to ship 300k units

Any time I see someone talking about "emotional involvement" and computer games I immediately start to think, "bullshit!"

This isn't because computer games cannot emotionally involve the player -- they can -- but because it is almost always only spoken about by people who are talking shit and who don't go on to back it up with any kind of example. They're often just using the phrase as a meaningless buzzword and devaluing it with every abuse.

My suspicions were sealed in this case when he went on to claim that the PS3 is the only hardware capable of emotionally involving the player, as if emotional involvement is a factor of hardware power rather than game design, characters, script, and so on; and as if the PS3 hardware is in a different league to anything else. Please don't patronise us, FFS. It's like Intel saying the Pentium makes multimedia Internet possible, only even more vague.

Why not be truthful and say Sony gave you some money to make your games exclusive? Nobody has problem with that kind of thing. It's happening all over the industry. If you make good enough games we'll buy them, and the hardware required. Just don't tell us that only that hardware could possibly tell an emotionally involving story because we're not idiots. Thanks! Good night!

Ahh! Who gave that blind woman a gun?!

Waaaaaaaah no more Quantic Dream PC games? :(

This is a great deal for both sides; Sony gets the closest thing to a "next-gen" game that I've seen, and Quantic Dream gets the marketing muscle to make the most palatable adventure game in years.