Tue, Jul 21, 2009 | 18:01 BST
PS3 can handle Splinter Cell, 360 exclusivity is “purely a business decision”
Steven Masters, lead designer for Splinter Cell: Conviction, has told Kikizo that the developers “could absolutely” create the game for PS3, but it was strictly a business decision to make it an Xbox 360 exclusive.
“Well that’s purely a business decision. That’s it.” Masters told Kikizo. “Ubisoft as a company now has a lot of experience with PS3. Our processes, tools, techniques are very well-developed – we could absolutely execute on the PS3 if we had the opportunity, but like I said it was a business decision.”
Game’s out for PC and Xbox 360 in October.
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Posted in: Action, PC, Shooter, Ubisoft, Xbox 360
Tags: splinter cell conviction, steven masters
14 comments
#1
Psychotext
21/07/09, 6:07 pm
Well look at that… a sensible PR comment.
/faints
#2
scratchy69
21/07/09, 6:07 pm
I honestly don’t care. I’ve never liked Splinter Cell as a series. It’s Metal Gear with all the fun sucked out of it.
#3
Aimless
21/07/09, 6:22 pm
I’d be surprised if this doesn’t make it to the PS3. Maybe not until Christmas 2010, but if we’re talking business decisions then I don’t see what Ubi Soft would have to lose by double dipping.
#4
ChrisPilote
21/07/09, 6:22 pm
Ha! Then it mustn’t have taken long to soak it out…
#5
Mad-elph
21/07/09, 6:33 pm
“…we could absolutely execute on the PS3 if we had the opportunity, but like I said it was a business decision.”
I think this reads, they paid us for exclusivity and we developed the game for 1/2 the costs.
#6
fearmonkey
21/07/09, 6:34 pm
I’m with Aimless on this.
Maybe exclusive means, need more time to get a PS3 version ready.
#7
Dannybuoy
21/07/09, 7:18 pm
A business decision… Like we want to sell less units? As prototype has shown that multiplatform games will outsell exclusive ones [infamous]. I don’t care anyhoo. Never owned a single ubisoft game!
#8
Psychotext
21/07/09, 7:21 pm
“A business decision… Like we want to sell less units?”
A business decision… like Microsoft paid to have an exclusive.
#9
Aimless
21/07/09, 7:48 pm
Personally I was thinking more along the lines of: release Conviction on the 360, Microsoft handling the marketing spend; shift some of the 6 billion people that were working on Assassin’s Creed 2 to port the game to the PS3, complete with token extras and a PSP tie-in; release essentially the same game a second time in October/November 2010, only this time to a more developed PS3 audience than existed at the end of 2009.
Making a PS3 version is by no means free, but if Ubi Soft can guarantee a certain amount of sales and spare the manpower it must be a more palatable option than sinking money into something entirely original.
#10
ianbenoir
21/07/09, 8:53 pm
I hate splinter cell, but the E3 demo made me wanna give it a chance again..
Maybe its because the last one was so so bad, they decide to try before if this one will work…
Double Agent took longer to arrive on ps3 too…
I believe there’s nothing to worry.
#11
ianbenoir
21/07/09, 9:03 pm
also.. if you think about it… makes complete sense.. I’d never release an ambitious game like this in all platforms at the same time. There are also many good games coming for ps3 right now.. why not wait a little longer, fix the bugs, and release it for ps3 on a better time?
#12
The_Deleted
21/07/09, 9:23 pm
Hang on…surely Metal Gear is Metal Gear with all the fun sucked out of it.
#13
fearmonkey
22/07/09, 2:20 am
@ianbenoir im with you on spinter cell. I tried to like the series, couldnt get into it. But this one looks good enough that ill give it a go.
Stealthwise- I prefer the thief games.
#14
bugmenot
22/07/09, 3:39 am
purely a business decision is the least subtle way of saying “moneyhatz” i’ve seen in a long while