Haze

So is this going to be a solid exclusive?

Or is a PC version, or perhaps more significantly a 360 version waiting in the wings, or pending further developments?

Because this looks good., good enough to count for something if it can be ranked as a PS3 exclusive, or even "console exclusive".

Hell someone might even want to do a mod of these guys, heh...

Its an exclusive....... for the time being.

I spose ubi will see how well it sells on the PS3 first. It should do well, PS3 owners are crying out for a decent exclusive title.

PS3's first true triple A game in my opinion.

Hark

You may be right, the better it is, the more I'm going to want it on 360, and my nose is telling me its going to be good...we shall see...one would think that ubi would want to leverage their investment, but if this were to remain a PS3 exclusive I would not be shocked, nor would it surprise me if the PC were favored over the 360.

sorry guys, looks like it's exclusive. a free radical rep came out and said they dropped the other platforms (free radical love playstation hardware) so they could optimise Haze for the ps3. hdd-caching, blu-ray streaming etc. shame the 360 doesnt have a standard hdd amirite

This was in multi-format development for far too long for it to remain a PS3 exclusive for long. Unless Sony through a metric boat-load of money at FRD/Ubisoft to keep it PS3 only. I've not seen anything in Haze's trailers which suggest that it couldn't run on a PC or X360. Blu-ray streaming is more of a hinderance than a benefit anyways as PS3s only have a 2x speed blu-ray drive (which is why it's quiet), compared to a noisy 12x DVD-ROM in the X360

Just for clarity here, that's not as huge a difference in speeds as it first looks, in fact the 12xDVD drive is only 1.76 ish times faster than the 2xBlu-ray drive.

Blu-ray: 1x - 36 Mbit/s, 2x - 72 Mbit/s
DVD: 1x - 10.55 Mbit/s, 12x - 126.6 Mbit/s

Obviously those are transfer rates and they depend on data density as well as the drives' spin speeds. Higher data density in the Blu-ray system should lead to lower spin speeds for similar data transfer rates, which is why the PS3's drive is quieter than the 360's DVD drive.

Interestingly, the theoretical upper limit for spin speeds of optical discs is 10,000rpm due to too much wobble for the discs to be read properly. This is 52xCD, 20xDVD and 12xBlu-ray speeds.

None of that has much to do with Haze, but once I started reading I couldn't stop passing it on to you lot! :-)

Official line is it's PS3 exclusive. A Ubisoft rep told me it's exclusive "for now".

I'd tend to agree that it was in production for PC and 360 too long to remain exclusive forever - even if it takes a year for a port to come out.

The only big new third party IP that's been anything like platform exclusive (this generation) that I can bring to mind right now is BioShock - and that was only console-exclusive. It just doesn't make a lot of sense to launch a new IP for a single platform. Unless, like fishsticks said, loads of money has been thrown at Ubi and FRD by Sony...