Sega has admitted that its recent patch for the botched PS3 port of Bayonetta was actually made for it by Sony.
The patch itself comes in at 135mb, with its main feature being to allow a 4.5GB install, fixing the “unfixable” load issues; Sega subsequently admitted that neither they nor Platinum Games were responsible – Sony stepped in directly.
The level of exasperation Sony must have felt to take such a measure can only be guessed at.
After carefully poaching Xbox 360 exclusives and insisting PS3 games maintain relatively high standards of quality, Sega’s decision to port a major release without something as simple as HDD installation and with substantially inferior graphics most probably did not please Sony.
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Dreamcast games.. like Saturn, Megadrive, etc before them DIDN'T REQUIRE PATCHES FROM THE INTERNET.
the end.
gb2 your shit 'consoles', kiddies.
Gaybox fail anwyay,devs are too lazy to work on PS3 cuz its too godly,xbobx are such a cheap machine which u dont have any basic skill and you can make a game also...fail ! gaybox
"Gaybox fail anwyay,devs are too lazy to work on PS3 cuz its too godly."
One of the most ridiculous comments someone has posted on here. Clearly an excuse for Bayonetta being far less capable than the 360. This 'Godly' PS3 is losing to the ever so shitty Xbox360.
IMPOSSIBLE!
Keep your mind closed buddy.
sell your game consoles
(insert picture of a dog here)
buy a dictionary
To fix their Bayonetta reputation...
Maybe Drummond was right about Sega only being in it for the money.
exasperation <-- desperation
Come on, a 135 megs patch to do a full install of 4.5 gigs to fix the issue? Maybe better optical drive like the 360s "lower end" non BluRay drive would have helped. lol
It's not necessary that they drop Blu-ray in order to have a faster drive, they should just replace the 2× drives with 4× ones... but then all current PS3-only owners would be even more hosed than they already are.
Sony: Sega... I Am Disappoint. Now let me show you how to make a game not suck.
...and the game ended sucking anyways... :(
Oh, Sega
why you so fail?
Please stop soliciting the xBox 360 on these forums. Thanks.....
That is the cutest Bayonetta I've ever seen
Indeed, it's a huge improvement on the normal, entirely unattractive character design.
I don't blame Sega for botching the port. It's Platinum Games' fault that they didn't do it themselves and instead decided to give the whole porting job to Sega just a few months before the release.
They probably gave it to SEGA in the first place because they were either too untalented, or too lazy to do the port themselves.
Or maybe they lacked enough personnel for the task and couldn't be arsed to delay the release even more...
This is exactly why i hope sega crash and burn. They are a bunch of has-beens with no place in the modern games industry.
I don't know what sort of companies deserve a place in 'the modern games industry' by your standards, seeing how many decent/good games Sega has made this generation.
Total War series, Football Manager games, Condemned, Valkyria Chronicles, Phantasy Star... not to mention they funded Bayonetta's development.
really, valkyria chronicles is likely to become more or less drivel if sega keeps hold of it... like how they were very unhappy with the current VC fanbase so they changed platforms and art styles.
I will say this, Sega isn't shit yet, but a few more "mishaps" like this and they will become shit. Just look at what they've let happen to Sonic.
Well, so far the Project Needlemouse is looking good. It looks like they want to cater to the older Sonic fans that don't give a shit about the newer games and have complained about wanting an old school Sonic game. That is a good start.
Still, I don't expect them to stop with the shit Sonic games, though. If Needlemouse is good, we should then start bitching to get more of that.
Project Needlemouse doesn't "look good" because they haven't shown anything at all. They're just sweet-talking fans of the Mega Drive originals into another Sonic cycle, akin to battered wives.
All of those games are crap. Sega are shit!
lol Sony went to help directly... Looks like they were going "Sigh, Sega"
Sony is gay and Bayonetta is gay!! Nintendo FTW!!
Bayonetta is a lesbian?!! And here I thought I had a chance with her. :(
are you daft? that just makes her more attractive!
If you're going to troll at least have the decency to put in some effort.
@ Anon 23:11 - That won't happen. SanCon'll have to come out with a patch that fixes the "unfixable" lack of effort from lazy fanboy trollers themselves.
Bayonetta is les?? That's awesome. Time for some good Bayonetta yuri doujin. Get on it japan!!!!
I doubt anyone is going to commission Sega to port anything anymore. Respect is due to Sony for this charitable effort. (or did someone pay them for it? SC articles always seem a little vague in places.)
of course sony gets a sizable cut of all game sales - i imagine a lot of people (including me) were holding off on buying bayonetta ps3 until a patch like this came out.
Indeed. I was about to buy it on Xbox (since I have both systems anyway), but since they patched this, and I don't have hdmi for my Xbox, I think I'll be changing my plans.
It'd still look better and run smoother on Xbox, unless your TV has no component or VGA inputs either. Loading times weren't the only difference.
HDMI tends to make images look quite a bit more crisp than the component cables on my TV. Maybe I'll rent them both and see for myself, but I'd lean more for PS3 if there isn't a downright staggering difference (which I don't believe there will be). Mostly because I have a preference for Sony's controller when it comes to action games (and xbox for shooters/racers)
I honestly can't stand for a company to release a game multiplatform and not try to make the two as close as possible. A port is nothing more then a stamp in my opinion that says we're fucking lazy. Then again this is Sega we're talking about. A company that thought a 3D sonic game was a good idea and did it not once, but multiple times.
Err, a 3D Sonic game is a perfectly good idea sir, just as good as a 3D Super Mario game.
Then, we have that at least 50% of Sonic Adventure wasn't a Sonic game but a treasure hunting/ robot escaping/ fishing/ shooting game, only 33% of Adventure 2 was more or less a Sonic game (too much emphasis on speed, it lacked exploration), Heroes and Shadow are just horrible, and 2K6 again 33% Sonic, in addition to being rushed and broken beyond repair. And let's not discuss the Wii suckers, just don't.
For you see, Nintendo still has Miyamoto for all their Mario and Zelda needs, whether good games or filler material, but SEGA has more or less lost Yuji Naka (the programmer and a good producer), Hirokazu Yasuhara (the game planner/ designer and a good director) and Naoto Ohshima (the original character designer). I hope you get the point, it's more or less like kicking Christopher Nolan and Christian Bale from Batman 3 and onwards...
Please stop soliciting the xBox 360 on these forums. Thanks....
And failed numerous times..
And has no intention of stopping.
@Anon 1:58
Project Needlemouse dumbass.
Uncharted 2 didn't need no installation to look awesome and have really short loading times.
Guess no one can afford that kind of performance when they develop for both platforms.
True. The problem is the PS3 is designed for high bandwidth in mind while the 360 is more designed with current era pc performance of lower latency. It's really hard to design games with both design philosophies at heart so to be honest you have to really half ass your development to make something look good on both systems or cut one short. That's why games developed for each system specifically look so strong because both are strong environments if you take their strengths to heart.
Here Sega just really did a horrible job porting the game because I think it was designed more for the 360's hardware which means a port is incredible hard (and apparently sega has no good developers left ; ;... *hugs his Saturn and Dreamcast*)
Man, I just love intelligent comments. :)
Not really . Noughty Dog is an inside studios and they got the money and the infinite time to polish their games .
... Uuhh, that's what I meant with my second paragraph, Anon...
Try PC/Mac. Loading times are minimal and you don't have to wait to get to the loading screen.
Lol, macs for gaming, seriously?
granted you have a decent PC/Mac.
There's barely any good exclusive games on the PC anymore. Almost anything that's on the PC, is on the console and is released months earlier.
And Mac? Lol.
No, they can. They just need to not be fucking lazy about it. If they'd have pushed back the PS3's release 3-4 months they could have easily worked out the kinks in that game.
Oh, irony: some Sega Saturn owners probably said the same regarding multiplatform releases that performed unjustifiably badly on their systems (case in point: Akumajou Dracula X: Gekka no Yasoukyoku, AKA Castlevania: Symphony of the Night), and third party companies didn't give a shit.
It's already a proof of Sony's (admitedly waning) relevance in the market that Rockstar agreed to delay the release of GTAIV on the 360 for a simultaneous release, and still the PS3 version looks much worse.
This is true. Shame Sony wouldn't allow the game to be released unless it was a simultaneous launch with the 360 version, or the 360 version was made into a 'beta'.
At least Sony have finally done something to fix a problem of their own creation.
thier own creation?
Yeah, the PS3's pointlessly complex hardware, that's most definitely "their own creation".
Everything multiplatform needs patching on the PS3, just look at Fallout 3 and BioShock and Ghostbusters and whatnot.
Please stop soliciting the xBox 360 on these forums. Thanks...