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?

...The Wii?

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

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



What the fuc.k?

http://www.2kmarin.com/

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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.

wouldnt ms be smart to have snapped this game up for another exculsive?

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.

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

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.

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

Exclusives are dead.

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.

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.

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

Will still 2 or 3 times more on the 360 though ...

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.

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.

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.

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.

http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/04/rumor-playstati.aspx

GTA4=game of the year

Bioshock was way, way overated.

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.