EA to publish Mercenaries 2; confirmed for Xbox 360?

OXM seems to thinks so, or at least hope so.

"Developed by Pandemic Studios, the title has now found a publisher in EA, stepping into breach with a release date scheduled for later this year.

This is great news on two counts; one, the game is going to receive a huge marketing and advertising campaign - refreshing the gaming masses collective memory that Mercenaries 2 will offer fun filled carnage as you fulfil the role of a mercenary for hire, working for the highest bidder in a world on the brink of World War III. Secondly and more importantly; EA has a tendency to publish their games on multiple formats. And EA loves Xbox 360!

Currently, Mercenaries 2 is only confirmed for the PS3 but as we have witnessed before on the next-gen, exclusive titles are hard to come by. The likes of Assassin's Creed, GTAIV and Virtua Fighter 5 have already made the leap from PS3 to Xbox 360, so it's not exactly rocket science to believe that Mercenaries 2 could do the same."

[DJ]

that it's exclusive for PS3.

[Booneral]

they will state otherwise soon enough. It's not a big riddle, it's not the most anticipated game in the world. Pandemic and EA wants to make more money so...

[FordGTGuy]

in whether or not its an exclusive anymore but EA does now that they are the publishers.

[MikeMichaels]

....they can't just snap their fingers and make Pandemic pop out a new version.

EA is just getting the games to shelfs. Like when Take 2 distributed Sega's 2k sports series for them.

I'm not saying it can't happen, but it's not EA's choice to make.

[PureGamer]

as long as its on both not just one its alright

[JPomper]

And as long as it has multiplayer.

[UNREAL-T]

What's good DJ, how u doing my lil friend.

I don't care if it exclusive or not, i just wanna play it(on ps3).

[DR GRIM]

THIS GAME HAD NOT BEEN CONFIRMED FOR 360. Mercenaries 2 is only confirmed for the PS3. SO WHY IT SAY CONFIRMED FOR 360 .

AND WHY ALL THE 360 FANBOYS WANT THE GAMES PS3 HAVE THEY WANT
MGS4/DMC4/FF13/FFV13/Mercenar ies 2
U DONT SEE SONY FANBOY CRYING FOR 360 GAMES. IT COULD BE BECAUSE THE 360 NEED SONY GAME TO LAST VARY LONG.
IF U GO TO ://www.mercs2.com U WILL SEE ALL THE 360 CRYING BECAUSE THEY WANT Pandemic TO PORT IT. THAT TELLS U PS3 FANBOY GOT A LIFE AND 360 FANBOYS DONT

[candystop]

Well i'm not a fanboy of either system but I do wish that PS3 was getting all the good games like the 360 is getting pretty much everyday! If these games keep coming to 360 then I have know reason to buy a PS3 at all! I mean if you look really hard at the current situation you can see that 360 seems to be getting a lot and I mean a lot of attention! Also I just watched the 1up show and they pretty much praised anything 360 and talked about the memory issue in the PS3 and pretty much how it just isn't up to par with the 360 if you listen closely! This game will come to 360 and I think that EA is just trying to create some demand and hype because of all the other games launching soon!

[Grown Folks Talk]

so they don't have to spend another $500 on top of the price of the game to play certain ones. would you rather get a game for a system you already own or buy another system just for that 1 or 2 games?

[Optimus Prime]

it's not annoying when people type in caps the whole time.... turn your caps lock off you idiot.

[JasonPC360PS3Wii]

AND WHY ALL THE 360 FANBOYS WANT THE GAMES PS3 HAVE THEY WANT
MGS4/DMC4/FF13/FFV13/Mercenar ies 2

Because we dont want you to have them LOL.

[FordGTGuy]

sets when a game comes out, how much that game will cost, what systems it will come on and how many copies will be made and what region it will be released in. Mercenaries 2 will most likely stay a PS3 exclusive but the point is if EA wanted they could tell the development team to remake the game for the Xbox 360.

[xfrgtr]

It shows how bad the 360 fanboys want the ps3 games,I wonder why?The 360 is that bad?
"Today Pandemic announced that Mercenaries 2 will be published by Electronic Arts (EA) and will remain a PlayStation 3 exclusive."

[FordGTGuy]

I would say it would come to the Xbox 360 because EA doesn't skip the chance of making a profit and making this game multi-platform would make them a hell of a profit.

[The Snake]

You say 360 fans want these PS3 games, but in this case you take it out of context. I want a sequel to my original Xbox game Mercenaries. If the original had not come out on Xbox, I would have not played it and therefore would not care about its sequel.

[gogators]

has enough shooters.

[original seed]

but soon it will be on the 360. I can really care less. I didn't like the original.

[pixel_sword]

Fanboys want to talk about hype and then generate it on an article using false and misleading statements.

Hypocrites

[Ugly American]

I have a PS3, but I have this real issue where I would rather have it on my 360. I want the gamer points. I want to be able to be on Xbox Live. And I want to be able to listen to whatever music I want.

It might be better for this thing to stay exclusive to the PS3 just so I have a reason to KEEP my PS3 besides MGS4.

I do support that this game is not just a PS game though. I played the crap out of this on my Xbox(and wish it was backwards compatible on my 360).

[Scrooge]

It's by EA, has anyone realized it will most likely suck because of this?