Joe Danger could appear on other formats

Joe Danger developer Hello Games has said that it may consider porting its PlayStation 3 title to other formats, including Xbox 360, but it would have been humanly impossible to get the game out on multiple platforms initially.

[mrv321]

Doesn't Sony pay the cost of development for PSN games if they remain exclusive? If so that's a big incentive.

Honestly either way I don't care, if it stays exclusive less people can play it, but I own a PS3 and 360 and to be honest this game looks like a must buy.

[spongeboob]

They announced it as PC and PSN first then maybe other platforms later. I have a feeling it will be coming out on the 360 soon because it looks like they are using the 360 controller when they demo the PC version so it shouldn't be that difficult to port it over.

[Faztkiller]

http://www.edge-online.com/... Good read about Hello games deciding witch platform to do first

[spunnups]

Considering the praise the game is receiving thus far, it's probably smarter for them to port the game to the PC/360, even if Sony pays for the development costs.

[morganfell]

Then they will have to reimburse Sony for a good deal of money. IF, and I say IF Sony paid for dev costs then the contract normally reads should the devs want to port the IP they retained to to non-Sony platforms then they have to reimburse development costs AND a penalty. This isn't always the situation but it is often the case.

If Sony did not pay development costs then they can simply do as they please.

[lightningsax]

Let's assume that a company knows what it's doing. If they estimate that a reimbursement will be outweighed by revenue on 360, PC, or even Wii (gasp!), then they'll do it. No hard feelings; they just want to survive and grow like any other company.

If there isn't a reimbursement, just porting costs, then they'll probably wait for sales figures to come out, make their case to stakeholders, budget out the new cash, and go right ahead. Looking at the reviews, I don't think they'll have a problem selling this game.

If you read between the lines in these quotes ("We're kind of free agents after this," etc.), they're saying that the only thing holding them back is staff time, whether that means just timing or that they have the desire to hire more people than just the first 4 guys. They're probably not constrained by a giant funding contract with Sony.

Can't wait to check this out on PSN!

[tiamat5]

It will probably be ported but it's ours right now. Unless Sony buys them like they did Media Molecule

[raztad]

I dont see the value of buying that company. Joe Danger doesnt look like THE property to own or something that will spawn a genre like LBP.

[lucifon]

The first trailer they ever showed of the game showed Xbox buttons for literally a split second on most points of the trailer. Kind of an odd one but if you go through the trailer frame by frame you'll see exactly what I mean. Theres 360 pad control prompts which then change to PS3 ones. No doubt the game started out as an XBLA title early on I'd imagine so this was a given to anyone observant.

[peeps]

i was intrigued lol so watched the trailer myself but couldn't see them, then i watched the trailer playing and pausing quickly, and indeed you can see 360 buttons lol really odd tbh

heres a screenshot for those interested:

http://img689.imageshack.us...

But yeh as mentioned by many, it is likely we will see a port eventually but being a small company could only feasibly work on a single version at first.

[Ri0tSquad]

They tried to cover it up on the PS blog by saying it was a PC error, but I didn't believe that for a second. Nonetheless, the game looks good.

[mantisimo]

Honestly? WOW! Have you really nothing better to do?

[NYPunk88]

@lucifon

So they started working on the Xbox version first but gave up on the platform in favor of the PS3? Is that what you're saying? Could this be a trend?

Development started on the PS3 first and a rough build for the Xbox was started later. You can confirm this info from the dev's blog.

[Briefcase Joe]

They had to choose one platform because they are only a four man team. They chose to release on the PSN first. It's similar to the Castle Crashers situation. They can only do so much at one time. I'm sure it will be on XBLA sometime in the future.

[Jakewilliams19]

come to my beautiful 360 :)

[QB_1]

Another vote for 360 luv. Although I'm a PS3 user all gamers should have a chance to play/enjoy a great game.

[NYPunk88]

I'm tired of the platform wars.

I'll DL and play a few games for all you 360 users out there.

[playstation_clan]

come to your beautiful 360. Did you put a picture of a hot girls on it or something, the 360 is not slightly beautiful, poorly rushed hardware

sorry if i offend any 360 owners but i tell the truth and if this was a 360 exclusive, you would rub it on our faces like anyone cares.

[A change in the wind]

All I know is that I`m getting it exclusively for my PS3 TODAY!

[MGRogue2017]

I wonder if they found it hard to develop for the PS3?

I'm guessing not seeing as how it's running beautifully on gameplay footage I've seen around the web. Sony must have made it really easy & fun to develop for the ps3 nowadays, sweet!

[Trroy]

Developing games for the PS3 is easy, unless you want to use the SPUs, because your game is doing something requiring serious horsepower.

I don't think this game requires the SPUs to do what it does. From a high-level perspective, the PS3 is a single-core 360, or a Wii HD, if you're not using the SPUs. Honestly, a lot of XBL/PSN devs don't even use more than a single core on the 360 anyway, so the PS3 and 360 are nearly the same, from many perspectives.

[lightningsax]

After this many years, there are tried-and-true best practices for programming out there that are shared between developers for any console. Developers don't have to reinvent the wheel every time they want to make a game. It's not like devs are going "OMG Cell! Run away!" after a long history of development on the system.

That's what's awesome about this console cycle being this long; smaller devs can use the back-end wisdom of AAA publishers to create unique, neat games. Gotta love that.

[tiamat5]

It's amazing that such small groups make such awesome games, while big huge developers make such crap. Everyone says it's hard to make games run on the PS3 and here a four man team makes a game that runs on it smooth as silk. You hear that Capcom, Valve, EA and Sega? I hope you do.

[jjesso1993]

I agree this make valve look so stupid but you should know Some ea games are make ground up on the ps3 from what i have heard and have never heard saga complain about the ps3.

[slave2Dcontroller]

All PSN/XBLA with a few exceptions should be Multi Plat. Its not like any of these games are gonna run out and buy a PS3 or 360 to play these things. JD does look pretty cool though.

[GeoramA]

Let the game come out first.

Christ.

[Focker420]

I don't really care if this goes multi-platform or not. I'll be buying it today anyway. The only time I object to multi-platfom is if the quality of the game would suffer. In this case it wouldn't so who cares. It would be a smart decision for the developers to do so, unless Sony is offering some good incentives. Which in this case I highly doubt, but these 4 guys are very talented, so its definitely possible.

[sarshelyam]

Sony has money in this...I highly doubt it will be jumping ship anytime soon...if ever!