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And once again the rumors of 2K's BioShock coming out on the PlayStation 3 are swirling about on the internets, driven by this bit of code found in the PC demo's config.ini file what lists the PS3 as a console.
[Console]Console (XBox360, PS3) specific settings
StreamingDynamicFloatingLimit:
If this is a positive number, then instead of using the fixed per-level
limits, the StreamingDynamic resource will use as much memory as is
available as long as the total memory allocated by the game is less than
the specified number. In other words, StreamingDynamic will grow and
shrink to fit to the available memory instead of being locked to a fixed
budget StreamingDynamicFloatingLimit=500
Well yes, that certainly does appear to be PS3 listed there after the comma. Intriguing, but I'm not sure it is worthy of the end all, be all announcements being made by sites like PlayStation Universe.
According to a config.ini log taken directly from the source of the BioShock PC demo, it appears once and for all this game is coming to PS3.Wishful thinking goes a long way in making tiny facts add up to big truths. For all we know this could be be placeholder code left in from early in the game's development, before the exclusivity was even a factor. It could be overzealous notation on the part of a coder. It could very well mean the game is coming to PS3, but far from a definitive sign. Patience, my PlayStation purist friends. If it comes, it will come.
BioShock for the PS3 Confirmed, Yet Again? [PlayStation Universe]
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Let the fun begin anew!
thats really fun fan boy fighting starts in 3 2 1
Game is built on UE3... a cross platform engine. While this lends itself to a good possibility that it's going to end up on the PS3, it also means that this comment could easily have been left in from the default templates.
I don't see why they wouldn't want to put such an excellent game on the PS3. They'll make more money.
I hope this does come to PS3.
I can't see why it wouldn't TBH, apart from an MS cheque.
I do think its going to show up there. Just got that feeling...
This could go both ways: it's default .ini text leftover as it's UE3 based.
It's UE3 based, therefore possible for PS3.
Prays ever so vigilantly....
Do PS3 owners have an equivalent to 360 owners and MGS4?? Yay for equality!
Halo3 is coming to the PS3. My dog told me.
Eh, just skip BioShock and bring us BioShock 2 for PS3
Oo, I hope Bioshock does come to PS3. Me want. Don't think it will though; Hope for the best, expect the worst
Couldn't the 360/PC owners at least have this game to themselves more than a day before these rumors renewed themselves? I'm sorry that they don't.
Could just be some UE3 engine documentation left in there...
Take Two are in financial shit, so it's hardly beyond the realms of possibility.
This is getting annoying as the MGS4 for 360 argument.
OMG Bioshock at 30fps on the BS3!
Bioshock is running on Unreal 3 so don't get your hopes up. It's to do with the engine not the game.
I'm pretty sure MS paid a pretty sum for that little greeny-yellow "Only on Xbox 360 and Windows" stamp that is on all the copies of the game.
It won't be coming to the PS3 anytime soon.
They list the PS3 as a console? Thats totally wrong, the thing's a super computer! Right? Anyone?
@wfrantic: *sighs and rolls eyes, put up the hand for the high-five*
They've said repeatedly that they "have not announced Bioshock for any other platform."
In other words, it's not that they aren't working on it, it's just that they haven't announced it yet. It's the same verbal game that was being played around Assassin's Creed. Everyone knew it was coming for the 360, but nobody announced it until well into the dev cycle.
@Maldron: CLAP!
It's probably just an office bet.
Hey let's put PS3 somewhere in the .ini file and see how long it takes the fanboys to find it?
Hell yeah, I'll give you 4 hours, you want the over or under?
Either that or it's why real widescreen doesn't work. Take your pick.
From a post on PS official forum (too lazy to word it in my own words)
[boardsus.playstation.com]
Unreal Tournament 2004 has Xbox commands and configurations in its .ini file.
Unreal Tournament 2004 has never been released for the Xbox.
The info that you find in .ini files is absolutely no indication that a game is coming to that platform.
The engine was developed for multiple platforms so of course it will contain information about those platforms in its configuration files. The game developer decides which platform they will create their game for. The engine developer simply wants to make it as flexible as possible.
At this time, 2K Games has not confirmed that Bioshock is in development for the PS3. Until they make such an announcement, don't get your hopes up.
@wfrantic:
No.
"Media Center."
UE3 was made for both 360 and PS3. Is it that surprising that they wouldn't go back through every byte of text in the engine and remove all references to PS3?
I mean, it's a 3rd party title and it's entirely possible that Bioshock will end up on PS3 at some point but, come on now. Use that ol' noggin of yours.
Interesting.
@david78: It's 2K, not Take Two. You just made a mistake right up there in the same level as Jack Thompson.
There is a possibility of Bioshock coming to PS3 is awesome. Because I love the game (and just got it for PC which cost me a crap load of money to get the stinkin Moby CD that I didnt even want). So I cant help to say I am excited. Although has anyone thought that they just placed it there because THQ planned to release it on all platforms before making it just PC and 360? Again just a speculation and I am really hoping I am wrong because I want BIOSHOCK PS3 STYLE!!
The games was going to be on the ps3 at one point before MS made it exclusive, so this could easily be an articfact of sorts from that era.
It doens't get much more exclusive that the companies calling it exclusive as it ships with 'exclusive' stamped on the box.
Hurray!
C'mon people, just stop. Ubisoft did an article that detailed the fact they made the PS3 version of GRAW 2 with a completely different team becasue off the difference between the two platforms.
This text is just left over from the original UE3 code, as someone mentioned before.
Will Bioshock eventually come to PS3? I have no idea, but this text entry someone found in the code proves absolutely nothing. They could put "Wii" in the same line, or "C64". It means nothing.
while, bioshock on ps3 would be cool, I won't hold my breath... and besides I already have it for 360, so who cares.
@Cutriss:
I was thinking the same thing, people always get the two confused for some reason. As for it going to the PS3, they probably realized how much work it could be and said screw it.
looks like the 360 has it's own "MGS4 COMING TOO 360!!11!" rumor now.
i wouldn't mind seeing it on PS3. would you?
Oh and I forgot to mention, its almost done installing! :D
Default U3 template. Means nothing.
I hope it comes out for the station tho.
As much as I want Bioshock on the PS3. I really doubt it is coming. The developers said it was a PC and 360 exclusive, but if we all decide to ignore that then I can probably think of a few reasons why it will come to the PS3, but most likely not coming to the PS3 ever.
This is stupid, Unreal engine games have always made references to other systems in their .ini files, there's tons of PC-only UE2 games that make reference to the Xbox.
I'd love to see Bioshock on PS3, Irrational deserve every sale they can't get, but this is stupid fanboy trash.
@saunderez: There isn't any "Only on Xbox 360" stamp on the game.
I was under the impression that it shipped without the "only on Xbox" stamp... but I could have been wrong.
Either way, I didn't get all in a tizzy about it being only Xbox, and I wouldn't get in all a tizzy about it coming to PS3. I feel like I'm missing something here.
Now, Gears of War, that was a game I was jealous of being exclusive to the other console.
If it didn't show up in the PS3 library I wouldn't care. The PS3 needs more specific development than ports so it can grow.
The 360? It will just continue to suck everything like an overheated black hole.
I still imagine that it'll roll onto the PS3, but I doubt we'll see it anytime soon. With development costing so much, getting your game out on as many systems possible, is almost a must. How long the exclusivity will last is the question, but even then it'll be a ways off if ever.
@stuminus3:
Good game deserves gratification, in that you're right.
@saunderez: That same sticker appeared on Fight Night Round 3.
I always said I will wait for the PS3 version. Why are these things so secretive?Do third party games hold this much power?
@Cutriss: Get this: Take Two owns 2k.
@twesterm: please say that was sarcasm?
this could happen, but it needs something more concrete than this, like uh, about 11 months of time to pass.
I bought it today, and I love it. My laptop can barely handle it, though, so I do hope it comes to the PS3 so I can play it as it was meant to be played.
This is just code, people. It shouldn't be a surprise that an Unreal Engine game has some leftover code bits relating to various platforms. I wouldn't jump to conclusions based on this.
Is more likely the config file was made by epic for unreal engine(witch run on pc,ps3,x360).
Then someone in modified the template without removing extra stuff.
i hope it does....
It might eventually come to the PS3. Wishful thinking. Why not just get a 360 or PC and play better games though?
I don't even care, why? 'Cause I'm playing BioShock as we speak.