PS3 release cancelled?

[Evangela]

cancel all and release them on PC instead

consoles era must die!!

[AshTS]

It's completely believable that they would scrap the PS3 version. It's completely believable that they still go to mint with it. This would not be the first time a game has had it's console counterpart scrapped due to poor sales. (AoC was announced for 360 back in the day, but Funcom pulled it, it's the same thing here)

SE has lost about 30% of their assets in the latest forecast .pdf. FFXIV hurt. Lack of sales in console games hurt. Spending the money to finish porting XIV to PS3 (Which isn't complete, BTW, but it's like throwing money in a well to finish either) might not be an option for them at this point until they gain ground in other areas. (They want to buy a few more IPs and create 2 new IPs for SE for instance)

They will not scrap the PC version, I don't think. It will still take them a year or two to get back into black on this project, but it's possible. Trying to sell boxes for PS3 with Tera and GW2 on the horizon might be a suicide mission.

Or maybe they left XIV off the slides due to an oversight or other error. Companies usually don't tell you if they scrap a game or something goes into dev hell. I don't think Funcom has annoucned that AoC isn't coming to 360 still and that's two years in the past.

The point in the "doom sayer's rumors" or whatever is that... this is a believable scenario now. Also, how does Wada still have a job?

[Seirra_Lanzce]

cancel all and release them on PC instead

consoles era must die!!

NAY! I Disagree!

[AshTS]

They already said that the List in that page did not include already announced projects.

It said that line up was ONLY previously announced projects ><;

[Betelgeuzah]

It's completely believable that they would scrap the PS3 version.

This is such bs I think the definition of the word should be officially changed to illustrate the ridiculousness this sentence.

It would make complete sense to scrap the version of a game whose fanbase lies almost exclusively on the console environment. It makes complete sense to try to chase after the same pool of players every single MMO developer is after instead of catering to the people who are a) less critical about the end product as long as the brand name is intact and b) less likely jump ship due to the same brand name as well as the fact that aside from some random superhero MMO that does not even appeal to the same audience they have absolutely no competition on the platform.

To give a bs example to a bs statement AoC is named, to further strengthen the headache I am about to get.

Since the Conan franchise is mainly based on consoles and has a strong following on 360, not to mention Funcom, a console developer who did not run out of money while trying to salvage their product. All this taken into account, it is no surprise why AoC is being compared to XIV- the situations are nearly identical after all!

Now if SE seemed like it was giving up on the project that would mean no PS3 version as well, unfortunately they seem to be doing the complete opposite.

"Hey guys, let's ignore the majority of fans of the franchise and chase after the players we already lost in an environment with dozens of competitors!"

[AshTS]

Yeah, there hasn't totally been a PS3 MMO released this year to almost bomb itself off the console. No, sir.

Conan has only had one game made on a platform that wasn't a computer. Funcom hasn't made a console game since the Sega Saturn. Funcom definately had to cut it's staff 20% due to AoC and could no longer afford to port their MMO to a console. A console that would have had like zero competition. (There is 1 MMO on 360). So yeah, they are a bit similar. Game tanks on PC, port gets cancelled.

Do you... even think about what you are saying or do you just blurt stuff out?

[Synapse]

PS3 version would never be cancelled, its like the only thing thats gonna bring in players, as well as rebirth of FFXIV, hopefully.

[Renshi]

Your face is gonna get cancel- I mean:

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Got word back from Yoshida about the changes that they're planning to implement. Like I assumed, there aren't concrete details on what precisely is being done that I care share, but he said that along with the PS3 version development, they are performing optimization work to overall the core engine to make improvements.

The DEV is talking about "Overtaxation on hardwear" Post. Hay guys if you ever read the DEV posts you can answer this PS3 question yourself. It's amazing what you can find if you read. Look Yoshida mentioned the PS3.... WOW, Now this stupid thread can get closed.

[AlexiaKidd]

Anyone who thinks the PS3 release is cancelled is an idiot, that is there main lifeline for the game to be a success. The only reason it hasn't launched yet is because the game is not in a state for another major release. The PS3 release could potentially net them millions of players why would they throw that away. If they released it now they would get a load of people buy it and then it would drop off rapidly as people wouldn't like it in it's current state. They are waiting until they have the game up to a standard that will enable them to keep those players interested and more importantly, paying a monthly subscription.

Also the PS3 version is complete it was ready to go in November they could launch any time they like. The main reason they gave for not launching now was because there are so many updates at the minute they wanted to wait until they had everything finalised and updates would slow down.

The news that SE have cancelled some of their projects is actually encouraging as to me it means they are moving their teams to make sure the games they are putting out are of the best quality they can achieve. SE has taken a big hit recently and it has tarnished their reputation so now they are focused to reclaim their status as a triple A developer once more and to do that they need to pull people off of other projects so they can focus on their core franchises.

Also I wouldn't look to much into Conan on the 360 being cancelled as that was most likely down to MS, they seem to be in stopping every Dev putting an MMO on the 360 recently, they even put a halt to FFXIV as SE openly stated that they want to have it on 360 but there are some issues with MS.

[Kuroguma]

Anyone who thinks the PS3 release is cancelled is an idiot...

... hi Alexia