The Last of Us to get character-specific special editions

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@96augment @jeremy- actually, darksouls was ps3 exclusive and if you bothered to read my massive wall of text (cant really blame you). It was released on PC as an after launch feature. I will now proceed to paste wikipedia since you are too lazy to check the facts before you tell me I'm wrong.

"Following the game's release, many gamers expressed their hope for a PC version. Namco Bandai administrator, Tony Shoupinou responded on their page that a PC version was possible, saying:[40]

There is always possibilities to have games adapted on PC and the good news is that Dark Souls is not a 100% typical Console game so the adaptation is possible. Now to make things happen, let's say the demand has to be properly done. Someone to make a successful petition?

On January 6, 2012, fans started a petition to bring Dark Souls to PC, with over 92,000 people signing it.[41] On January 13, Tony Shoupinou replied by saying:[42]

Damn you are amazing! I honestly wasn?t expecting such a massive support. My boss(es) even came to talk to me about this, after it exploded all around the world. If you wanted to have the attention of Namco Bandai Games, now you have it. The future is in your hands, and I hope you will keep supporting this. I make a personal objective to make sure every relevant person at Namco Bandai Games is in touch with this formidable effort.

The PC version of the game was confirmed on April 7, 2012 via the PC Action magazine.[43] Re-branded as Prepare to Die Edition, it came out in August 2012 and featured new content, including bosses, enemies, equipment, and NPCs.[44] The new content, titled Artorias of the Abyss, was released for consoles in October 2012 in the form of DLC.[45] Soon after, it was announced that Dark Souls for PC would use Games for Windows ? Live for online play and DRM, spurring fan backlash.[46] However, the final release uses Steamworks as its DRM along with GFWL for online play for all versions of the game[47][48]"

@jeremy-  Dark Souls is not exclusive to the PS3. It came to the Xbox and PC (although the PC version was apparently pretty bad). Only people who got to sites like Gamespot know about the end of the PS3's and Xbox's lifecycle. It's not like everyone knows. So, there are still people who might buy a PS3 or Xbox. 

         Even when the new consoles come out, people would still buy the PS3 and Xbox because it's cheaper than buying a next-gen console. Look at the Wii vs. Wii-U. More people bought a Wii than a Wii U in November.  

@Total_mischief @jeremy- 

You still fail to see the point... you are more interested in 'opinions' and being 'right' than exploring any aspect remotely involving intelligence. 

Lets see if i can be more clear... so again, rather than ad hominem, we look at FACTS.

Take darksouls for instance, developed what we can reasonably characterize as 'near' the end of 'PS3 lifecycle'. And under 'exclusivity'.

Now, we see the emergence of a phenomena to the games industry, not really seen before, where there is a facebook group with 100k or more votes for a PC port.

Why? Why did these people not just all run and buy a PS3. Because (drum roll, as i've been saying in every post).... ITS NEAR THE END OF THE LIFECYCLE.

Gamers know how many potential games are left on the console, if they havnt got one now, and there havnt been THAT many exclusive games over the years, exclusivity (drum roll again)... IS NOT GOING TO WORK AT THIS PRESENT TIME.

Now, this is the part where these things called 'facts' really mess with your argument. because now Sony and the Dev agree with me too. They take the action of PORTING the game to PC (although poorly, and affecting gross sales).

Your statement of 'duh people dont buy windows because its not on ps3' is entirely a 'moot' point and irrelevant.

It was about EXCLUSIVITY, and whether you have to buy the PS3 to get the game experience. So lets look at it hey:

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Dozens of PC OR PS3 games, that you dont need to own the PS3 for to get the experience. Case and point :)

only its about whether the console has exclusivity. You never saw me demanding it be on Box, i would prefer last of us on the PC as i have a top spec box, (pretty sure i said that from the start anyway).

All i said, all i ever said, was that at this stage in the game, all the research, all the numbers show they should cross platform games UNTIL nextgen.

/end rant. Go ahead and try and prove me wrong but all i'm seeing are childlike 'told you so' or 'xbox sucks' responses.

@jeremy- Yes, because people are known to buy a new OS for gaming...you're just embarassing yourself.

@terrusaet Also, one more thing, its the same thing with the movie industry and piracy.

Content providers need to be more and more careful with how they deliver content, we are already seeing providers like HBO finally break the chains from cable to go online. Australia is very interesting in this regard because we have the highest theft rate for GOT tv series in the world, and its because we cant get the content we want, when we want it, at a good price. Kim Dotcom may be a grandstanding idiot sometimes, but he has a point about fast, cheap, good for online content.

What is increasingly happening is if young, tech savvy users cant get the content they want, they will immediately download it instead. As technology improves consumers have more and more choice, we can oneday walk into a store with google glass and our reality augmentation tells us which products to buy.

In reality, we dont buy because we have to, we buy games because want to support the companies that make them, and not steal from them.

Now, when nextgen hits, I'm not going to complain about exclusive titles.

All i'm saying is, if we are talking about Business Marketing, exclusive titles when there is little to no objective (in the last of us case)... other than bullshit hypothetical marketing on brand integrity is not the way to win end-users hearts.

Chew on that for a while.. In anycase, i doubt either of us will get past this because we agree the reasoning is marketing oriented, we just dont agree on whether it is justified or not, this has become a matter of opinion, not fact.

@traitor_651 @jeremy- Agreed, i picked one person to write a comment to 20 for, and you made a smiley face at the end so you were light hearted to begin with :)... my bad.

I'll call my tone 'argumentative', as in, not really negative, but just disputing/in conflict with most of what was being said. 

Regarding calling you a fanboy, i was again addressing the wider (about half of the..) comments, I cant see any reason to call you a fanboy other than addressing 1 person rather than 30 replies, of which there was a large degree of console bandwagoning.

My original comment was ACTUALLY only meant to serve as a point that they should have made it for PC too, and that its annoying. Nobody is going to dispute there will probably be some consoles here and there bought for it, but they are really doing this just as a marketing train for the nextgen around the corner.

I found that annoying, made a small comment about it.

In the future... I must remember the first rule of fightclub, do not diss xbox or PS else you will taste the tears of 1000x fanboys. Cheers for not being generic1283129 game community douchebag.

@terrusaet @jeremy- Err, you are just repeating what i said in the first place.

I called it 'establishing brand integrity' for the next generation.

But what i explained, is this kind bullshit marketing strategy of depriving us for a game, for NO PROFIT, but just to build integrity for nextgen is annoying because i wanted to play the game on PC.

I understand that, and thats EXCACTLY the point i made. The fact that you just read a few lines then write a dissertation on exactly what i was saying is confusing. 

You are just repeating what i was saying.

@jeremy- I seriously need to ask, are you stupid? Do you not understand basic sales, marketing, or even the definition of competition? Having exclusives at the end of a console generation is to help the sales of that console in the next generation. They did the same thing with the ps2 and that helped ps2 sales immensely throughout the next generation. If I'm not mistaken for I believe for 3 years the ps2 and ps3 sales were very close because of ps2 exclusives. 

And how can you not give a shit when you said this in your first comment "Basically, playstation pays out the ass for exclusive rights so they can deprive everybody else of something and have slightly more 'brand integrity" ".. its got nothing to do with sales of the current console... all they want to do is   deprive everybody else." 

That sir is called competition, not deprivation and every company/business does this so I don't see your point. Also you said yourself that you own an xbox, not a ps3, the fact that you chose an xbox over a ps3 means that Microsoft had an exclusive offer, service, game, or item that Sony did not have so the fact that you pull this idea out of your ass that Sony is "depriving" everyone else because of the same marketing strategy that made you choose an xbox over ps3 is just completely absurd and crazy. And I don't understand why you keep referencing how you"re going to pick your next console. I guaranteeing most people are doing the same thing in choosing their next gen console. 

@jeremy- Ok Jeremy, if you count me as a so called PS 'Fanboy' and not capable of making a proper comment, then I am sorry to disappoint. The main reason why I didn't comment much more is because everything that I wanted to say was already said, and it was downright funny that you had so many replies. 

Now, on the one hand I understand your point of view, it being so late in the generation cycle, but on the other hand look at it this way. As people before me said, PS3 has had a pretty Low Profile line of exclusives compared to the Xbox. Having an amazing game like this come out is a great chance to prolong the life of the console. 

Not only that but there are still many people that hold out on buying a ps3 for various reasons, whether it's the price of the console or the lack of great games. a release like this helps the console look more attractive to people that have had xbox forever and want to try out something new. 

and you can't say Xbox isn't doing the same thing, heck look at the release of Halo 4, it comes out under a year before the possible announcement of a new Xbox. I make no comment on DLC, that just is bound to attract haters XD. 

Finally, lighten up a bit. you sound a bit pessimistic about this whole thing, it's just video games! And have a sense of humor as well, I didn't mean to laugh t you in the original comment but it was outright funny.

If this comment doesn't satisfy you, send me a PM and I'll send you a 5 page essay!