Originally posted by Arachnoidfreak
That's just being ****ing greedy. Playstation has some of the greatest RPGs ever, including Final Fantasy and Wild ARms, and not to mention several dozen other awesome games. Xbox hits the jackpot with one RPG and they're out to steal it?Anyway, I won't believe it until it happens, and if it does happen, I'll get some buddies to riot so Xbox gets the Final Fantasy series. ****ing whiny Playstation bitches.
It isnt stealing if your company willingly sells it. Besides, It seems that microsoft would be getting the better end of the deal. Fable hasnt even made a name for itself. Where as the next 5 GTA games could be absolute shit, but would sell millions just for name value alone. IT seems if this is true, Sony may want to rethink there decesion. People buy the Playstation2 just so they can play GTA games when they come out. Like you said too, no matter how good Fable is, it would never be able to compare to the popularity of a good final fantasy release.
Now if we are talking about complete developer rights, then sony will be losing potentially hundred of millions of dollars from future games. Rockstar is sony's leading developer. If we are just talking an independant game rights, like the original Fable and the original san andreas then, well sony still lost. Who would want to play Fable in 2006 when Fable 2 would be comming out on the X-box?
Where is the proof of Halo going on Sony? I mean Halo is basically the only reaosn that the x-box survived 2002.
You have a point Rages, but i still think it's stupid.
Darth: I think it was far from over hyped. I didn't even know the game existed until a week before it was released. I found out about it here on these message boards actually. Fable was an awesome game, and I wasn't dissapointed because I never knew about all the things they took out until I was already halfway through the game.
Although...alot of titles are overhyped for the Xbox. Hell, the Xbox itself was overhyped when it was first released. No matter, it still has good games. Not as many as PS2 though.
if my memory serves me right, PS3 will come out in just a few months and that they tried to snag halo but microsoft wouldnt have it so they went to the next best game on their console, fable. i think what darth and rages said is true about y microsoft let it go:
(quote from darth: "Fable is simply another relatively okay, yet terminally over-hyped Xbox game."😉
and what rages said:
(quote from rages: "Who would want to play Fable when Fable 2 would be coming out on the X-box"😉
so sony lost both ways. thats 7 million they spent on snaging fable over to the PS3 when they could have used that for a new GTA
yeah, but i highly doubt that we have all the facts. I dont read PSM magazine, I read game informer. I havent seen anything about this deal so i dont have any knowledge. I doubt that Sony would trade the gamming series that made it a landmark system for a game that hasnt even been out three months. They may have given Microsoft the rights to bring san andreas to their system in return for Fable, rather than paying for it, but i still think that the next GTa game will be exclusive for sony. Unless Rockstar wanted to leave, but i doubt that aswell. Sony made and is making rockstar rich.