Playstation 3: Player exclusives

The Playstation 3 is driving me crazy in this way in particular: five of the highest profile Playstation 3 games have only ONE MODE OF PLAY, be it single or multi player.

Of the announced, upcoming titles, four are singleplayer only: Ratchet and Clank: Tools of Destruction, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, Lair, and Heavenly Sword.

And then there's Warhawk, which is multiplayer only.

This could end up being a lot of wasted money for what could possibly be an extremely limited amount of gaming time. When looking at most of these titles, I was expecting a fully fleshed, satisfying experience. Yet so many of them come in one flavor or another. Why can't there be more games like Resistance Fall of Man, with 30 giant singleplayer levels andlarge multiplayer maps with a multitude of play modes?

Because it's PS3... Developer's have realized the 360 is the way to go, that's why PS2 was a success compared to the original Xbox. It just came too late =/Steve765

Did you even read the entire TC's post?

very true, which is why i love the 360

Almost every single game on the 360 has XBL or online of some sort

MGS4

Killzone

Haze

All will have online mult.

While I would love for every game I buy to have two of well built modes. I mean, who doesn't want more? However, I would prefer one excellent mode to two mediocre ones. Also, some games just don't lend themselves to certain modes.Ibacai

well...thats probably why Halo is one of the best games around. Excellent single player AND multiplayer

how do you know ratchet and clank wont have multi

the past ones had it

how do you know ratchet and clank wont have multi

the past ones had it

metalmonkey268

The devs said so... They wanted to focus on a good single player. But the first and second R&C did fine without multiplayer so I guess the TC shouldn't be worring too much about this game...

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how do you know ratchet and clank wont have multi

the past ones had it

munu9

The devs said so... They wanted to focus on a good single player. But the first and second R&C did fine without multiplayer so I guess the TC shouldn't be worring too much about this game...

Because it's PS3... Developer's have realized the 360 is the way to go, that's why PS2 was a success compared to the original Xbox. It just came too late =/Steve765

No, no, no, you don't get it. These developers are first party. Given your icon, you should know that. Ratchet and Clank is a first party. The only title I listed that is third party is Lair. That leaves four other games with only one playing mode.

The first parties cannot develop for the Xbox 360. They develop exclusively for the Playstation 3. Therefore, my question is still valid and your criticism isn't. Don't try to give me nonsensical answers, please. If these guys WANTED to, they could have made these games single player and multiplayer. Take a look at Resistance: like I said, 30 single player levels, AND 40 player online. These guys OPTED OUT of multiplayer/singleplayer.

Warhawk devs: we wanted to focus on multiplayer.

Ratchet devs: we wanted to focus on singleplayer

Uncharted devs: we wanted to focus on singleplayer, all the way through!

So precisely what is the problem here? My question is not why they individually chose to do this, it's why they did it en masse. Don't tell me that first parties, who have a stake in Sony's reputation and sales, would possibly sabotauge Sony's operation by releasing a single playing mode intently.

The Playstation 3 is driving me crazy in this way in particular: five of the highest profile Playstation 3 games have only ONE MODE OF PLAY, be it single or multi player.

Of the announced, upcoming titles, four are singleplayer only: Ratchet and Clank: Tools of Destruction, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune, Lair, and Heavenly Sword.

And then there's Warhawk, which is multiplayer only.

This could end up being a lot of wasted money for what could possibly be an extremely limited amount of gaming time. When looking at most of these titles, I was expecting a fully fleshed, satisfying experience. Yet so many of them come in one flavor or another. Why can't there be more games like Resistance Fall of Man, with 30 giant singleplayer levels andlarge multiplayer maps with a multitude of play modes?

Redfingers

MGS4

Killzone

Haze

All will have online mult.

Endfinal

That's fair. Perhaps I prejudged. I was just counting the number of titles and I got confused, I guess. Doesn't seem to make sense when it doesn't seem like a huge strain to make a few multiplayer modes, whether offline or online, from co-op to deathmatch, you know? They're both relatively simple game modes, but add SO much more value and depth.

I can understand completely the Warhawk situation, however.

very true, which is why i love the 360

Almost every single game on the 360 has XBL or online of some sort

hockeyruler12

Anyhow it depends on the game. Great games that have a solid singleplayer/multiplayer doesn't need the other mode, but games like Lair and Uncharted, that are apparently 10-12 hours long are a joke if they don't have MP. Especially Lair, that game is screaming for some online play.

MGSIV has online, and I'm sure GT5 will have online.

To be honest, I don't care about online that much. But I am excited about Haze online.

But most of that probably involves Gamerscore recognition, am I right?Redfingers

Here's a suggestion. Wait for next year's version of these games. I'm sure they will add online for R&C and co-op online for Uncharted. Wait more.

You dont know much do you?? Anyways most of 360 xboxlive games are Multiplats and yea 360 exclusives have XBL but barely.....Anyways look ill give u a list og games coming out and only exclusives too......

Killzone 2

Warhawk

Socom Confrontation

Rachet and Clank: Tools of Destruction is going to have Online i think

The Agency

Little Big Planet

Monster Hunter 3

Tekken 6 maybe

Wipeout 6

there are alot of other but dont feel like posting

You dont know much do you?? Anyways most of 360 xboxlive games are Multiplats and yea 360 exclusives have XBL but barely.....Anyways look ill give u a list og games coming out and only exclusives too......

Killzone 2

Warhawk

Socom Confrontation

Rachet and Clank: Tools of Destruction is going to have Online i think

The Agency

Little Big Planet

Monster Hunter 3

Tekken 6 maybe

Wipeout 6

there are alot of other but dont feel like posting

Blanco98

The irony of this post is that, as I listed above, both Ratchet and Clank: ToD and Warhawk only have one mode. Ratchet and Clank is ONLY single player and Warhawk is ONLY multiplayer. And, as someone mentioned above, Socom is also multiplayer only.