Ubi CEO: "There's always hope [for a PS3 Splinter Cell]"


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http://www.videogamer.com/news/ubi_theres_...ell_on_ps3.html

Ubisoft Montreal CEO Yannis Mallat has cryptically told VideoGamer.com "there is always hope" for PS3-owning fans of upcoming action-fest Splinter Cell: Conviction, despite the game being a "true Microsoft exclusive".

Mallat was speaking to VideoGamer.com last night after a London screening of Assassin's Creed: Lineage, the short film that fuses live actors with computer generated images.

Splinter Cell: Conviction, due out exclusively on Xbox 360 and PC in February next year, was described by Ubisoft in a "dev Q&A" as "a true Microsoft exclusive title". In the June post, the French company insisted "there are no plans to have Splinter Cell Conviction on other platforms".

Just so there's no confusion, here's how our chat with Mallat went down:

VideoGamer.com: We're a multiplatform website, and we have many PS3-owning readers who would love to play Splinter Cell: Conviction. Do you have any message for them? Is there any hope for them regarding the game?

Yannis Mallat: There is always hope.

VideoGamer.com: Does that mean Splinter Cell: Conviction might come to the PS3?

Yannis Mallat: I can't predict the future. But it's good to hear that people who can't play Splinter Cell are willing to.

While Mallat's comments do not confirm Conviction's arrival on the PS3, they are cryptic enough to suggest Splinter Cell's days on PS3 may not be over.

Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Conviction will be released on February 26, 2010, exclusively for Xbox 360 and Windows PC. For more on the game head over to our game page.

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I would love to play it on my PS3. The previews have made me really want to play this game. If it does not come out on the PS3, I can always play it on my PC. :D

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That would be cool for PS3 owners. I'm not a fan of 3rd party platform exclusives.

I am to an extent. Splinter Cell has really always been associated with Microsoft consoles, same way Metal Gear Solid has been associated with Sony consoles (despite some multiplatform releases). Exclusives always take the best advantage of that console's strengths without being hampered by another console's weaknesses. Splinter Cell is looking fantastic, and that may be part of the reason why. I'd love a PS3 release, but I'd be content just getting a PC version.

That said, if you do release multiplatform, the releases as far as gamechanging content should be the same (DLC, etc.). Bonus crap that is basically for show or fun (maps, characters) I don't care much about.

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