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Sony traps Ghostbusters in EU

By Mark Walton, GameSpot UKPosted May 6, 2009 4:47 am PT

SCEE is set to publish Ghostbusters game on June 19 on PS2 and PS3 in Europe; PSP edition to arrive in the autumn, other versions coming from Atari "later"; gaming shipping on all platforms in US on June 16.

Ghostbusters: The Video Game has been on an interesting ride in its bid to make it onto gaming screens. Initially in development by Sierra Entertainment, the title was then dropped in the great Activision-Blizzard culling of 2008, after Sierra's parent company, Vivendi games, was subsumed into the publishing behemoth now known as Activision-Blizzard.

Mr Stay Puft didn't take the Sony news well, especially after selling his PS3.

The future of the game hung in the balance until Atari confirmed that it would be publishing the title, later announcing a June release date.

Now the title has once again changed hands. Sony Computer Entertainment Europe will be publishing the Terminal Reality-developed game in the EU on June 19. The launch will be done in cooperation with Atari to coincide with the release of the Blu-ray versions of the original movies. Initially the game will be available only on the PS2 and PS3, with a PSP version arriving later in the fall. The latter version had been widely believe to be cancelled.

[UPDATE] To the relief of Canadian and US Wii, Xbox 360, and DS owners, Sony Computer Entertainment America reps told GameSpot that today's announcement has no bearing on the game's launch on June 16 across the Atlantic. "SCEA does not have plans to publish Ghostbusters in North America," said the rep.

Ghostbusters puts the player in the role of a trainee Ghostbuster, who, along with the original characters Spengler, Stantz, and Venkman, is tasked with cleaning up a ghost-ridden Manhattan. The game will feature an all-new story, penned by the original writers and stars Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis, who will also appear in the game. In addition, Bill Murray will reprise his role as Venkman.

When contacted by GameSpot, Atari confirmed that the Wii, Xbox 360, and DS versions would be coming "later in the year" but did not offer further details.

149 Comments

  • ddt88

    Posted Jun 11, 2009 1:08 am PT

    Destructoid are reporting that the US version is NOT Region locked: http://www.destructoid.com/xbox-360-version-of-ghostbusters-not-region-locked-132821.phtml

    Freakin' Sweet - US Pre-Order anyone?

  • digital_reaver

    Posted Jun 8, 2009 3:46 am PT

    seriously, how is a three day delay "screwing" us? its three days. not 3 weeks. or months.

    and since when do sony need to care about the other platforms? all power to them for securing an exclusive release in the EU! gives me awesome bragging rights over my 360 mates.

    i never hear people complain when the 360 gets games like bioshock a year before PS3. or when PS3 exclusives go multi. buncha hypocrites out there.

  • EmkayXx

    Posted May 17, 2009 2:16 am PT

    It's more than just a 3 day delay @issizots
    And...i found this very lol.

  • PSgamer99

    Posted May 16, 2009 6:07 pm PT

    nobody should start on sony about exclusive content when microsoft has been the real b**chs about it lately

  • shadow5040

    Posted May 10, 2009 7:46 am PT

    Man... Sony really know how to annoy people, it's kind of a petty thing to do, it's not as if it's going to make people who don't have a PS3 buy one :S... it's just childish...

  • issizots

    Posted May 7, 2009 3:29 pm PT

    quit whining about a 3 day delay geez... I live in the US and we get screwed over just as much as you guys do IF NOT MORE... The place that we should be complaining about is JAPAN who gets ALL the games first with a ton of exclusives along with that. Can I say are there any Final Fantasy Dissidia Fans in here? If so you'd be glad to know that on the PSP it's released in Japan, but the US has a release date almost a YEAR after its initial release. How aching is that? Well, compared to three days i'm sure it will not hurt. Hell complain about Final Fantasy XIII's release date, and the demo being released in japan but not in US nor EU as i'm aware and i'm very aware. This game may not even be all that great as much as it's been shuffled from publisher to dev. to publisher to etc. It doesn't even go along with the movie story-line for any of the movies. This game being delayed for 3 days for Europeans could be good and mean a full fledge refund of well needed money and can get a better game such as batman arkham asylum or assassins creed II(fall). Anyways I just hate when ppl gripe about delays, as long as video games have been out you'd THINK people would have gotten used to the concept of delays and not act so synical towards the company that's fixing the bugs that makes the game suck in the first place. So we can say we all get screwed even japan IF...they're lucky(heh).

  • smeghead83

    Posted May 7, 2009 11:41 am PT

    Thanks Sony for not only ignoring other consoles apart from your own but also s****ing over your European market YET AGAIN

  • TheSergeant

    Posted May 7, 2009 9:57 am PT

    Why is it they always identify the Ghostbusters as "Spengler, Stantz, and Venkman" but never add Zeddemore? Winston may not have had as prominant a role as the others but was still a part of the team.

  • slainta

    Posted May 7, 2009 7:10 am PT

    What the hell is written there? Are the other consoles getting it the same day of the PS3? Anyhow, 3 days later is not the end of the world. I still wonder why Sony does it to us Europeans, but it's not a big deal.

  • Al_CaPope

    Posted May 7, 2009 5:39 am PT

    thanx again for putting EU customers last on the "who do we give a s**t about" scale!

  • cell_100

    Posted May 7, 2009 4:50 am PT

    i really wanted this game on my 360 come day of release cause my mates ent got a ps3 :/ god damn it sony. looks like its ps3 then for now....

  • duke-nukem11

    Posted May 7, 2009 3:24 am PT

    well duke nukem maybe dead. but at least my ps3 aint lol

  • kendrene

    Posted May 7, 2009 2:34 am PT

    Thanks Sony for shoving this dirty deal up our european *** Not everyone has the money for a ps3 that here is still at 399euros. Thank you very much.

  • pilot_riaz

    Posted May 7, 2009 1:20 am PT

    @SillySkeleton - @cid_007
    Took me 3 reads aswell to understand that article, not written well is it?

  • ico92

    Posted May 7, 2009 1:03 am PT

    @silly skeleton
    @cid 007

    join the club

  • cid_007

    Posted May 6, 2009 11:18 pm PT

    @ SillySkeleton: I still can't follow what the hell that damn article is all about. It's like my brain got slimed! Sony seems to be splattering ectoplasm on the deal, hence my former post/jingle.

  • gk_of_berea

    Posted May 6, 2009 11:07 pm PT

    I recently discovered that the old cartoons are OnDemand for Comcast subscribers. Talk about nostalgic. I actually got to see the episode explaining how Slimer got to be buddies with the Ghostbusters. Really brought out the kid in me.

  • SillySkeleton

    Posted May 6, 2009 11:05 pm PT

    Jeez, it took me 3 reads to understand what the hell that article was telling me.

    So basically, all consoles get it at the same time in the US, but in EU only the Playstation versions of the game are coming out in June,

    Is that right?

  • cid_007

    Posted May 6, 2009 11:01 pm PT

    "When there's somethin' strange, in your neigborhood,
    who ya gonna call?
    When there's somethin' weird, and it don't look good,
    who ya gonna call?"
    SONY!!!!

  • MTMind2

    Posted May 6, 2009 10:42 pm PT

    @willie699 who says "Come on, your the ones that are ruining our superior copy of FF13 so they can put together your shoddy port. (I own both consoles BTW Just prefer my PS3)"

    then as a multiconsole owner you really should know better than that. the 360 doesnt change the ps3 version of ff13 in anyway at all, which is being launched in japan first before they even start the 360 port. i expect the 360 version to be equally good, with the exception of sd video and audio for pre-rendered cutscenes instead of blu-rays hd video and audio, and the inconvenience (to some) of multiple disks.

    back on subject, sobleck said "my guess is that atari was probably gonna publish late in the eu anyway most likely due to financial issues and so Sony thought it was an opportunity to get a timed exclusive by publishing it initially while atari sorted the others out later"

    im not 100% sure about financial reasons, but i do think you have a point there. interesting.

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