Sony: MAG only possible on PS3, is an iteration of SOCOM

SCEA hardware marketing boss John Koller has claimed that upcoming multiplayer shooter MAG can only be built on PS3.

"MAG is a 256 online-player game which is spectacular," he said, talking to VG247 at GDC last week.

"If you look at that competitively, it's something that's only possible on PS3. The processor speed, the ability of PS3 to showcase 256 players at any given time, and their actions."

Koller went on to detail the Zipper Interactive game's concept.

"It's basically like an iteration of SOCOM, where you're maybe commanding the SEALs, and someone else has the Rangers, and the Green Berets, and so on," he said.

MAG was Sony's "big" announcement at the end of its 2008 E3 press conference.

A movie was shown of the title, featuring soldiers, vehicles and lots and lots of guns.

It's planned for release late this year.

SAUCE

I doubt it will be released this year.

This will be one chaotic game...But I'm getting sick of the whole "The game is only possible on '...'"

It will be delayed

It will be delayed

Generalmojo

It will be delayed

Generalmojo

Most likely it will

This will be one chaotic game...But I'm getting sick of the whole "The game is only possible on '...'"

Lto_thaG

Yeah it's getting kinda annoying :?

I like how Sony is talking about a game of which they have shown basically nothing. I can say that everything is possible on PC and that will be one thing that will always be true. Whether it cant be done on 360, I sieriously doubt it too. Wii? Yeah ok Ill give them that. It cant be done on the Wii.

This will be one chaotic game...But I'm getting sick of the whole "The game is only possible on '...'"

Lto_thaG

It will be delayed

Generalmojo

hope that they change the name. MAG is terrible. teeerrrrrible

It's obvious that it's only possible on the PS3, Zipper Interactive is owned by Sony. What they really mean is:

"MAG is only possible on the PS3 because we own the studio that's making it."

Now, could a game with 256 players be done on the 360? I don't know, you don't know, so STFU! Speculating is only going to give fodder to trolls and other idiots.

hope that they change the name. MAG is terrible. teeerrrrrible

wayne_kar

It's obvious that it's only possible on the PS3, Zipper Interactive is owned by Sony. What they really mean is:

"MAG is only possible on the PS3 because we own the studio that's making it."

Now, could a game with 256 players be done on the 360? I don't know, you don't know, so STFU! Speculating is only going to give fodder to trolls and other idiots.

Girsej

hope that they change the name. MAG is terrible. teeerrrrrible

wayne_kar

[QUOTE="wayne_kar"]

hope that they change the name. MAG is terrible. teeerrrrrible

Slambo86

[QUOTE="Slambo86"][QUOTE="wayne_kar"]

hope that they change the name. MAG is terrible. teeerrrrrible

BoloTheGreat

[QUOTE="Slambo86"][QUOTE="wayne_kar"]

hope that they change the name. MAG is terrible. teeerrrrrible

BoloTheGreat

[QUOTE="Generalmojo"]

It will be delayed

Most likely it will

[QUOTE="Lto_thaG"]

This will be one chaotic game...But I'm getting sick of the whole "The game is only possible on '...'"

Yeah it's getting kinda annoying :?

SCEA hardware marketing boss... MightyMuna

Yep, only possible on PS3, that's why PC did it 6 years ago, with actualy more players in battle than MAG

[QUOTE="Slambo86"][QUOTE="wayne_kar"]

hope that they change the name. MAG is terrible. teeerrrrrible

BoloTheGreat

I wouldn't be so sure that it isn't coming out this fiscal year

• Zipper's last game shipped in Nov , 2006
• This is multiplayer only focused - so that's one less thing they have to worry about

They confirmed it for fiscal 2009 at least , and I'm sure they have been playing it for quite some time now. They'll start showing it pretty soon.

hope i'm wrong but i dont see the game getting released this year.. if i have to be optimistic i'd say summer 2010..

hope i'm wrong but i dont see the game getting released this year.. if i have to be optimistic i'd say summer 2010..

Malta_1980

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hope i'm wrong but i dont see the game getting released this year.. if i have to be optimistic i'd say summer 2010..

Episode_Eve

i'll make sure to get it too... :) too bad lately didnt have much time to spend gaming :( (hope to cya soon online on KZ2)

If this game is released in the fall it will get crushed by COD6.

[QUOTE="wayne_kar"]

hope that they change the name. MAG is terrible. teeerrrrrible

MightyMuna

Better hope it doesn't Lag! Hahahhahahaa

Why do you guys keep mentioning "oh he forgot about PC haha".

You guys need to get it through your head that Sony is talking about consoles, the only thing they're talking about when they say stuff like that is against the 360. That's their main priority is trying to 1-up the 360.

PC and Wii are in categories of their own, Wii is focused on a different market and PC is capable of doing a lot more then consoles due to advancing hardware, it's just different like that and I have a high-end PC and played Joint Ops when it was big way back when which was 150 players I believe or more.

I know PC is capable of having a bunch of players but stop butchering Sony's statement when it's obvious he's just trying to downplay 360 with his PR BS.

If this game is released in the fall it will get crushed by COD6.

colosion

If this game is released in the fall it will get crushed by COD6.

colosion

So the PC doesn't exist now, Sony. That's great. Floppy_Jim

no one gives a damn about pc, i hope MAG is great.

Everytime sony says something i end up doing this.....:roll:

You know, I have seen all these "only possible" claims and so far have only found one claim with any shred of validity: disc space, and even that is conditional on the ability of the game to be compressed and spanned (MGS4 is theoretically possible because it is linear). From a purely technical standpoint, I haven't been able to find one other thing the PS3 or 360 can do that its opposite simply cannot do and is actually worthwhile. Both are capable of 1080p, even 1920x1080p output, but only in limited circumstances. The PS3 can do lossless audio, but so can the 360; they just don't do it because of space concerns and the fact that the average human ear can't perceive the difference most of the time. Both have the same amount of RAM, and dev costs tend to be a bigger restraint on huge games than disc space, so what there is left to try to differentiate oneself.

It's obvious that it's only possible on the PS3, Zipper Interactive is owned by Sony. What they really mean is:

"MAG is only possible on the PS3 because we own the studio that's making it."

Now, could a game with 256 players be done on the 360? I don't know, you don't know, so STFU! Speculating is only going to give fodder to trolls and other idiots.

Girsej

[QUOTE="colosion"]

If this game is released in the fall it will get crushed by COD6.

Episode_Eve

[QUOTE="MightyMuna"]SCEA hardware marketing boss... killerfist

Two letters Sony: PC. If they had of said that it wasn't possible on Wii or 360 i'd of been cool with it, but their puny system has nothing on PC hardware wise and they ought to know it.

[QUOTE="killerfist"][QUOTE="MightyMuna"]SCEA hardware marketing boss... blue_hazy_basic

It will be delayed

Generalmojo

[QUOTE="Girsej"]

It's obvious that it's only possible on the PS3, Zipper Interactive is owned by Sony. What they really mean is:

"MAG is only possible on the PS3 because we own the studio that's making it."

Now, could a game with 256 players be done on the 360? I don't know, you don't know, so STFU! Speculating is only going to give fodder to trolls and other idiots.

jyoung312

Both Sony and especially Microsoft recognise PC gaming, but at the end of the day they are in competition with each other; so any comments not directly aimed at PC have to be considered to be aimed at the competition.

[QUOTE="killerfist"][QUOTE="MightyMuna"]SCEA hardware marketing boss... blue_hazy_basic

Truth is truth, no matter who's mouth it comes out of. And, right now, nothing on the 360 now or coming proves him wrong.PoppaGamer

Nothing on PS3 proves him right either, just promises that a game people have seen very little of will be capable of this.

Now I've been in online games so I know it's possible to get a couple of hundred people in the same place if it is optimized well, EverQuest back in the day could manage over 200 in the Bazaar at the same time for instance; admittedly if your PC was up to it.

On a console however there are no real world examples I am aware of, it will be interesting to see what they will have to do to make it possible; I wouldn't expect modern level console graphics.

[QUOTE="PoppaGamer"]Truth is truth, no matter who's mouth it comes out of. And, right now, nothing on the 360 now or coming proves him wrong.AnnoyedDragon

Nothing on PS3 proves him right either, just promises that a game people have seen very little of will be capable of this.

Now I've been in online games so I know it's possible to get a couple of hundred people in the same place if it is optimized well, EverQuest back in the day could manage over 200 in the Bazaar at the same time for instance; admittedly if your PC was up to it.

On a console however there are no real world examples I am aware of, it will be interesting to see what they will have to do to make it possible.

[QUOTE="AnnoyedDragon"]

[QUOTE="PoppaGamer"]Truth is truth, no matter who's mouth it comes out of. And, right now, nothing on the 360 now or coming proves him wrong.PoppaGamer

Nothing on PS3 proves him right either, just promises that a game people have seen very little of will be capable of this.

Now I've been in online games so I know it's possible to get a couple of hundred people in the same place if it is optimized well, EverQuest back in the day could manage over 200 in the Bazaar at the same time for instance; admittedly if your PC was up to it.

On a console however there are no real world examples I am aware of, it will be interesting to see what they will have to do to make it possible.

I guess he forgot about the PC.pamplinas322