During my spell on the sidelines from my suspension, I did a little digging around on the internet so you don’t have to, and have come up with a little nugget of what looks like good news.
Videogamer.com has published highlights of their interview with Ray Maguire (MD of SCE UK) taken at the Games 3.0 conference in London earlier this week.
When asked about the supposed exclusive DLC coming to GTA IV, Fallout 3 & Tomb Raider on the 360, and why Sony doesn’t seem to do as much for its customer base as its competitor:
“nothing is ever exclusive” in response to questions surrounding exclusive DLC on Microsoft’s Xbox 360…
…Maguire rejected those complaints, saying he would “much rather that we (Sony) were investing money into making sure that we’ve got great R&D and we start producing games like LittleBigPlanet rather than paying other people a huge amount of money to stop people playing their product.”…
They will be publishing the full interview later in the week.
When this story is added to the promising news of Sony’s Q2 sales figures, the future does start to look a little brighter than it did a couple of weeks ago.
October 30th, 2008 at 10:57 am
maybe we will get it, who knows, the trouble is i have a hard time taking anything anybody from scee says seriously anymore.
October 30th, 2008 at 11:27 am
I agree with his point though, I’d rather Sony spend money on new game development than making things exclusive. Of course that is the point of view of a PS3 owner, and exclusives DO sell consoles.
One of the reasons I dislike Microsoft is there attitude of spending money to stop other console owners playing games/DLC. I really couldn’t care less if every game I have/get comes out on Xbox as well, except that usually means we get a watered down version due to its limitations.
October 30th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
I’m just not that bothered about this DLC stuff, certainly not GTA or Tomb Raider. I’ll have a job just playing them to completion, never mind bothering with extra stuff.
But, then again, I’ve bought every Warhawk pack so I do partake of DLC.
Oh, I dunno, I’m conflicted.
October 30th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
Sony will give us the DLC for these game due to the fact that all of them are major sellers and they know we want all the extras these games have to offer
October 30th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
The one I’m hoping for is the Fallout 3 DLC. If it’s anything like Oblivion’s DLC it’ll be worth it (except Horse Armour…). But I’m not holding my breath!
thedragonrider Says:
October 30th, 2008 at 6:47 pm
i’m not too bothered about the fallout dlc to be honest.
knowing sony we’d never see it in europe anyway.
October 30th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
Yes! DLC for everyone… obviously Sony CAN’T AFFORD to be wasting money getting ‘exclusive’ DLC deals. Microsoft don’t have my respect for doing it- I STILL haven’t forgiven them for the Munch’s Odyssey thing LAST generation (they bought the development company to make it an Xbox exclusive after many months of development for the PS2, then the company mysteriously started slagging off the PS2)- It’s one of the reasons I STILL won’t buy an Xbox… Jeff Minter’s lovely Neon light synth almost swayed me to buy a 360, but then I remembered the BASIC on the Vic 20 and Commodore 64 was written by Microsoft… They still owe me BIG TIME!