Bioshock 2 Headed For PS3 and Wii?

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canadagamer
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Bioshock 2 Headed For PS3 and Wii? - Apr 08, 2008 06:32

Job listings for the 2K Marin-led sequel to BioShock hint rather heavily that the sequel (prequel?) will be coming to more than just the Xbox 360 and PC. The team at 2K are looking for a Senior Designer, noting that " Playstation3 experience is required." Also preferred? Unreal Engine 3 experience. BioShock 2 was officially announced last month with a pre-holiday 2009 release date, giving us plenty of time for rumor, speculation and console fanboy pissing matches.

Also noteworthy is that the multiple open job listings for BioShock 2 positions specify PlayStation 3, Xbox, and Wii as the intended platforms. I just hope they call it BioShock Too, because that' s a funny and lighthearted way to name your sequel and the first one was sort of depressing. Who' s with me?!


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PS3 release for this game was almost expected, but the Wii?
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RE: Bioshock 2 Headed For PS3 and Wii? - Apr 08, 2008 06:38
...The Wii?

...They mean, the Nintendo Wii. Right?

Like... the Wii with a 700mhz processor, and 88mb of RAM?



What the fuc.k?

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RE: Bioshock 2 Headed For PS3 and Wii? - Apr 08, 2008 06:55
http://www.2kmarin.com/

Click view job listings...

Wii is listed, but it' s only about applicants previous experience, ...it means nothing.

Kotaku are putting a spin on it to get hits. It' ll obviously hit PS3, 360 and PC, but it ain' t going to Wii.

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RE: Bioshock 2 Headed For PS3 and Wii? - Apr 08, 2008 08:43
wouldnt ms be smart to have snapped this game up for another exculsive?
Change is inevitable. Except from a vending machine.

Viva La Revolution! erm, I mean Viva La Wii!

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RE: Bioshock 2 Headed For PS3 and Wii? - Apr 08, 2008 09:49
I doubt Take-Two would take them up on another exclusivity offer for anything short of an astronomical amount of money. They responded negatively to Microsoft' s " hostile takeover" attempts, as they should have, and paying them off for another exclusive title would be takeover by proxy, which I don' t think they' d be keen on either.

This isn' t to say that there won' t be an exclusivity deal made before now and launch, but the likelihood is slim unless Microsoft pulls out the big bucks.

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RE: Bioshock 2 Headed For PS3 and Wii? - Apr 08, 2008 10:28
It would be pretty stupid for MS to let this go, but pay $100 million for extra GTA content.

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RE: Bioshock 2 Headed For PS3 and Wii? - Apr 08, 2008 11:53

It would be pretty stupid for MS to let this go, but pay $100 million for extra GTA content.



I thought it was 50 million.

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RE: Bioshock 2 Headed For PS3 and Wii? - Apr 08, 2008 12:56
Bioshock was a pretty big hit, but it doesn' t have the casual mass market appeal of GTA.

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RE: Bioshock 2 Headed For PS3 and Wii? - Apr 08, 2008 15:15
Exclusives are dead.
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RE: Bioshock 2 Headed For PS3 and Wii? - Apr 08, 2008 15:37

Exclusives are dead.


Exclusives will never be dead as long as Nintendo is around.

Unless you don' t count Nintendo games as " Nintendo console exclusive" which they always are.


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RE: Bioshock 2 Headed For PS3 and Wii? - Apr 08, 2008 17:06
I agree M$ should have tried and kept Bioshock an exclusive, however sooner or later someone is going to call foul on all this exclusivity stuff, I mean unfair competition or something along those lines.

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RE: Bioshock 2 Headed For PS3 and Wii? - Apr 08, 2008 17:09
while the install base of the ps3 didn' t make much sense for the first one, by the time the second comes out the general assumption is that there will be almost as many ps3s as 360s so cross-system seems obvious. Can' t see a wii version unless they turned it more family oriented, although swinging the wrench would be fun

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RE: Bioshock 2 Headed For PS3 and Wii? - Apr 08, 2008 23:28
Will still 2 or 3 times more on the 360 though ...

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RE: Bioshock 2 Headed For PS3 and Wii? - Apr 09, 2008 00:50

Bioshock was a pretty big hit, but it doesn' t have the casual mass market appeal of GTA.

Bioshock sold over 2 million copies by mid-December. That was 4 months ago. I disagree.

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RE: Bioshock 2 Headed For PS3 and Wii? - Apr 09, 2008 05:55
Yeah. GTAIV is going to sell that many in the first week. The mainstream press is going to be going apesh!t.

Bioshock is a great game, much better than any GTA game in the past, but it doesn' t have the mainstream name recognition as GTA.

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RE: Bioshock 2 Headed For PS3 and Wii? - Apr 09, 2008 06:22
True. It didn' t, but there' s no doubt that the sequel will perform far better in the sales department than the original, which was not too shabby on it' s own right.


Yeah. GTAIV is going to sell that many in the first week. The mainstream press is going to be going apesh!t.

I' ll hold ya' to that prediction.

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RE: Bioshock 2 Headed For PS3 and Wii? - Apr 09, 2008 06:27
GTA IV allocations have pretty much sold out in the UK. I' m sure we' ll get more but i expect the game to destroy any title this gen in it' s first week sales.

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RE: Bioshock 2 Headed For PS3 and Wii? - Apr 09, 2008 06:47

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RE: Bioshock 2 Headed For PS3 and Wii? - Apr 09, 2008 07:38
Bioshock was way, way overated.
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RE: Bioshock 2 Headed For PS3 and Wii? - Apr 09, 2008 10:35


I thought it was 50 million.
I think it was 50 million for each.



Bioshock was way, way overated.
It was overrated, but still the best game that came out between March and September.