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E3 2005: Ninja Gaiden 2 Not for 360?
Team Ninja does not confirm the sequel for Xbox 360. Could it be headed to the PS3?
by Hilary Goldstein

May 20, 2005 - An interesting thing happened on the way to speak with Team Ninja head Tomonobu Itagaki -- Ninja Gaiden 2 could not be confirmed as an Xbox 360 title. Long assumed to be headed to Microsoft's next-gen system, it seems either Team Ninja isn't ready to make the 360 destination official or Gaiden 2 is secretly being developed for PS3 or Revolution. When we asked how NG 2 would improve on the 360, the translator let us know that Team Ninja would not confirm the next Gaiden for Xbox 2. That doesn't mean it isn't coming to 360, but it certainly opens the possibility for development on one of the other next-gen systems.

To add a little fuel to the fire, last year Itagaki informed IGN that Team Ninja was looking into developing titles for the next-gen Nintendo and Sony platforms. In any case, Ninja Gaiden 2 is a long way from reality as Team Ninja will not fully dedicate itself to developing the sequel until after DOA 4 is complete.

As for those who felt Ninja Gaiden on Xbox was too difficult, be afraid. The difficulty won't likely be lessened for the sequel. However, when asked if NG 2's difficulty would equal that of the ridiculously tough Ninja Gaiden: Hurricane Pack, Itagaki said that Hurricane Pack could be made so difficult because it was free. Well, we thought it was funny.

We'll continue to investigate the final platform destination for Ninja Gaiden 2. Our guess is that it's still Xbox 360, but we wouldn't be shocked if it ended up being PS3 or Revolution.

 

gamespot already has a listing for NG Black for xbox. I'd be surpised if it was on PS3 or REV. But that would be cool if they did.

 

Sony Playstation 3 -- Too Powerful?

Mon. May 23, 2005 6:42 PM ET

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -- In the wake of the premier conference on gaming known simply as E3 many shocking announcements were sent out that will continue to be felt for many years to come.

New hardware was the call of the show, with all three companies unveiling, to an extent, their new consoles. While the Xbox 360 and Nintendo Revolution specifications remained within reason -- the ultra powerful Sony PS3 caused some of the world's greatest minds to take pause.

Noted Nobel laureate physicist Karl Weisman was the first of several scientists to step forward with an astounding revelation. If the new machine known simply as the PS3 was allowed a large enough grouping the system could merge into a massive supercomputer.

The proverbial kicker -- the PS3 could accomplish feat entirely on its own. Using the specifications provided by Sony along with sophisticated mathematical formulas the scientists led by Weisman have estimated that ‘super grouping’ will become self-aware November 11, 2007.

Link to full article

 

KC,

Where's that link to the actual story.

 

That is so weird..?

 

KC is really JC...John Connor. Good job! I think we have the plotline to Terminator 4 in this thread.

 

Not to derail the very entertaining Terminator talk, but San Andreas is coming to Xbox in another month or two.

 

RC-

You are passionate, but you are such a Sony fan boy........they should be paying you.

 

So RC prefers PS2, whatever.

So do a majority of gamers apparently, and that's pretty much what counts when it comes down to the bottom line.

We'll see how the next gen turns out, but microsoft is facing an uphill battle at this point. I do find it funny though that the selling point of the Xbox by Microsoft and "fanboys" alike was the power of the system, but now that it appears sony will have the powereful system it's all about the games for the 360.

 

....and precisely the opposite happened for the Sony nuthuggers.

 

How can one possibly change their views if it's been entrenched in their mindset/beliefs in the most 'extreme' manner? It's a pretty hard hurdle to get over.

Don't get me wrong RC, I'm not trying to make this into a much needless argument. I don't doubt that you know more about the gaming industry than I do. And I, for one, am a Sony backer...that's more because I dispise Microsoft more than anything else. But we can only speculate, like you've said before, only by what data has been given to us. But that's the smoke and mirrors that companies throws at us. The only time data can be analyzed to be made into an important factor are in PC games. Benchmarks and frames per second and what not. These are the gamers that cares about this kind of stuff. I own a PS2 and I don't know what the frame rate is compared to an Xbox or how fast the processor is and I really can care less. All I know is that when I play San Andreas, all I'm thinking about is jacking that old caddy and go pimp and make money. When I play GT4, all I want is to mod the crap out of my cars. I don't sit there and think "Say, this game's framerate is below normal standards" or "I really think Kojima missed the boat by not bringing MGS over to the XBox because there are less 'jaggies' on that system". And if I, a more than casual gamer in my day, don't care about it, who's to say the 10-11 year olds who beg their parents for a PS2 would care about it?

Sure having a better system in terms of power and technology leads to more publishers/developers backing said system, but it's a dead end situation for those publishers/developers if they don't "go with the flow". I think a good example is Capcom exclusively bringing Resident Evil to the Gamecube for a period of time. Sure, they made good money, but in the end, I'm pretty sure they would have made a lot more if they multiplatformed it from the get go. Basically what I'm saying is, developers/publishers can speak volumes about a system and it's power, but when it's all said and done, they got a bottom line to meet, and if putting a game on a system that is very popular (PS2) despite it not being "better" than another system (Xbox) means more money in their pockets, they'll do so.

I hope the PS3 is what people make it out to be. But I also hope Nintendo and Microsoft have something up their sleeves as well. If Nintendo comes up with something revolution-ary, I might jump back onto their bandwagon like how I made the switch to the PS1 when the then-Ultra 64 didn't excite me.

 

Not nearly to the same degree, imo. While the specs may be the main reason some choose to buy, I think most take for granted that Sony will deliver the games, since they have been by far for the last decade or so.

IF the box can deliver on the games,esp right out of the gate, which I am not as confident in as I am Sony, then they could make some huge headway into Sony's share.

 

No need to argue..Its really simple determining which crowd will buy which system (Sony/MS).


-Those who don't mind limited games and only likes the Halo series and certain sports titles(where on-line comes into play) than they will buy the X-Box.

-Those who could live without Halo and rather takes advantages of the huge PS2 libraries due to a lot of 3rd party support like what RC had explained, than they will buy the PS2.

The new generation will probally demand the same results, but I think the PS3 will be a better on-line system this time around.

Just matter of preference...Me personally will get both as seeing Kill Zone(PS3) and Gears of War(XB360) made me nearly sh*t my pants.

 

I don't get it.

So we're only going to get halo and sports titles huh?

seems like a lonely library for any xbox fans

 

Give me a break. Obviously you have never looked at the library of games XBOX features. It just doesn't start and stop with Halo. There are a ton of great games that run on the system. And, just because Sony has a larger list of games, doesn't mean that they are all good. There are only a handful of great games, a good amount of average games and a but-load of crap games on both systems.

RC, I for one don't think you are a "fanboy" and appreciate all the info you post on here. Do I think you have a decided preference towards Sony? Sure. But, don't we all?

I have both XBOX & PS2, I like both, but I prefer to buy most of my games on XBOX. I agree with the poster before that I don't give a crap how good the specs are on a console. I only care that I can sit down and play great games that are fun, innovative and can take my mind away from the real world even for a little while.

Sony and Microsoft are huge companies who will be around for a long time. This is not Sega trying to beat the competition with the Dreamcast (which was a good system IMO).

Like I have said before, both system will be great. Both will have their advantages and drawbacks, but both will give gamers an unbelievable experience that we could have never imagined even a few years ago.

If you love XBOX, buy a 360. If you think Sony is the greatest out there, buy a PS3. Neither party will be dissapointed.

I'll buy both (have already pre-ordered the 360) because I just can't get enough of great games, no matter who or where they come from.