God of War III officially PS3-bound

Link. (http://www.gamespot.com/news/6182430.html?action=convert&om_clk=latestnews&tag=latestnews;title;0)

Wow!

In March, Sony Computer Entertainment America held a lavish launch party in San Francisco for God of War II. In the course of the celebrations, Cory Barlog, the game’s outspoken director, dropped some none-too-subtle hints that the series would be coming to the PlayStation 3 along with force feedback.

"If we were to do a God of War III on the PS3," Barlog told the enthusiastic crowd. "We’re excited about the potential–maybe, no commitment, no announcement or anything like that–to maybe have [God of War hero] Kratos in 1080p with the Sixaxis and vibration. Vibration is coming back to the PS3, that’s pretty cool, huh?"

At the time of Barlog’s outburst, SCEA reps would comment on neither a rumble-enabled Sixaxis nor God of War III coming to the PS3. Now, less than two months after the Dual Shock 3 was unveiled at the 2007 Tokyo Game Show, Sony has officially confirmed that God of War III is indeed in development exclusively for the PS3 at SCEA’s Santa Monica studio. It provided no further details on the game.

Unfortunately, the God of War III announcement was tempered by some bittersweet news. SCEA has confirmed Barlog himself no longer works at the company’s Santa Monica studio. "We are grateful for his work and creative vision for the critically acclaimed God of War franchise," the company said in a brief statement in which it expressed faith in the remaining members of the GOWIII and God of War: Chains of Olympus teams.

Barlog’s departure remains shrouded in mystery. So far, he has shared no information about his future plans on his personal blog, where he last posted in mid-October. His exit comes just under four months after God of War series creative director, David Jaffe announced he was leaving SCEA’s employ after 14 years. Jaffe maintains close ties with Sony, and his indie studio Eat Sleep Play’s first project is a PS2 port of the PSP game Twisted Metal: Head On.

So what? All this means is that gamers are slapped in the face once again by the outdated notion of console exclusives.

It was expected.

Marvin, breaking news!

MARIO GALAXY IS EXCLUSIVELY ON THE WII YOU BETTER GET 3!

Marvin, breaking news!

MARIO GALAXY IS EXCLUSIVELY ON THE WII YOU BETTER GET 3!

So what? All this means is that gamers are slapped in the face once again by the outdated notion of console exclusives.

MARVIN YOU ARE GOING WOW OVER YOUR SONY ONE I AM GOING WOW-WOW-WOW OVER THE BETTER NINTENDO ONE

Exclusives are necessary for people to decide which system they are willing to spend their money on. Otherwise most people would just buy the cheaper system. We are just pawns in this twisted age of exclusive madness. Thinking about it tho…this only applies to the people who aren’t rich and can’t buy all of the systems to play all the titles they want. I’m one of those non-rich people so it’s important for me to know what console a game goes to.

Anyway God of War has always been a Sony exclusive so it’s not surprising.
Looking forward to it…I hope they can dish out another gem of a game but GoW2 will be hard to top.

well does this mean that David Jaffe isn’t going to write the story cause if so the game will hurt

Pretty sure he didn’t write GoW2 and everyone said it owns.

I could never understand the fascination people have with the GOW series. I mean, sure it’s fun but some gamers treat it like it’s the definitive action game. I just don’t get it. :/

So what? All this means is that gamers are slapped in the face once again by the outdated notion of console exclusives.

I agree.

I think in this day and age console exclusives are silly. Companies struggle to make back a large profit mostly and it could hard the industry. I mean, it’s even projected that Konami will suffer heavily for having MGS4 as an exclusive.

So what? All this means is that gamers are slapped in the face once again by the outdated notion of console exclusives.

GOW is a Sony property. So that’s a given.

This notion you speak of will always exist as long as the console makers don’t band together to make a system than can read all media types, from any developers. Which is really unlikely to happen in the near future (probably never during our lifespan).

In any case, it is rather futile to complain about first party exclusives.

Hope it comes to PS3. The prior two games i thought was fantastic

It was always a playstation exclusive since other than Chains of Olympus, God of War 1 & 2 were developed at SCEA Santa Monica.
The latest extended full trailer confirms that its Only on PS3 it states it on last 10 seconds of the trailer. Some game play footage was also leaked ( http://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/312211.html ) (the footage was from GDC and its alpha stage)
and if you pay close attention many of the quick-time events are Playstation control button commands.

Overall all God of War games 1,2, Chains of Olympus were really good. The storyline for each of the games were awesome. Greek Mythology is incredibly rich so they have so much source material to use.
The only thing that is sad is the fact that they dropped the price on the playstation 2 instead of their PS3. So much for more sales on the console unit…

Microsoft would have to pay huge cash to get the game on the 360 and SCEA would probably denied them that and say it would be impossible as the PS3 is superior and blah blah blah…. GOW3 on the 360 would have been possible if the game was developed by a third party like Ubisoft or Epic Games and they would had to license the game engine so that 360 development could be done.

so… in other words, a game made by sony is going exclusively to the playstation 3.

there goes my hopes of a DSi port.

There’d better be a pink DSi 😡