While Atari's decision to not exhibit at E3 is surprising, the reasons in the article are almost asinine. While the decision may coincidentally be beneficial to Sony, it doesn't serve Atari's business interests in anyway. While Ghostbusters will be released the day of E3, it's an IP that has had considerable exposure. My suspicions are the other IPs mentioned just aren't ready to be shown/demoed.

lol wow i wonder if this report would of had the same reaction if it would of said MS pulling the strings? Would you guys have called him a 13yr old or would you have been agreeing with him.

I wouldn't go that far, since the apparent success of Alone in the Dark Atari has been back on track to returning. They were obviously compensated for the European Ghostbusters issue, a company that needs money to grow makes a smart business move, not much wrong with that? Of course it sucks for gamers, but a company has to think of themselves before the consumer.

Go SONY, go Atari, and flush all the BABOONS.....AAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HA

Ghostbusters: The Video Game: The game is coming out in North America the same day of E3, so E3 won’t really help the title. But Sony would benefit from less publicity for the title in North America, since it’s getting limited time exclusivity in Europe. Why publicize a Wii/Xbox 360/Nintendo DS game that’s being released the same time as the PlayStation 3/Playstation 2 and future PlayStation Portable game? What a coincidence, huh? Champions Online: Let’s see: Champions Onlineis coming out for the PC and Xbox 360, while DC Universe Online willbe shown off at E3, which is for the PC and PlayStation 3. What a coincidence, huh? Tekken 6: For the first time, Tekkenwill be on a non-Sony console on same release day. What a coincidence, huh? Ready 2 Rumble Revolution: A major exclusive sports title for the Wii. What a coincidence, huh? One last “coincidence”: Phil Harrison is now at the head of Atari; he used to be the PlayStation 3 boss at Sony. On the other hand, Harrison ruined Sony, ruined Infogrames, and now is

Atari is just one big waste of time anyway...they prob dont have anything to show so thats why they pulled out why waste gamers time

get Phil to head atari and shlt all over the xbots ....Why are people still arguing over the shltbox ? when theres games like killzone 2 , infamous , uncharted , MAG , MLB the show , gran turismo all coming out for the ps3 uncompressed . So I say lets these bots play with crap , they enjoy it

Wait, where is the motive? The only thing that I can see is that maybe sony wants a takeover of atari, but that is about as likely as mart leaving this site. Which is to say very likely, but not anytime soon. It would be a good idea for sony, but it ain't gonna happen this decade. Especially because atari is already giving up the publishing rights to some games....why would sony want to drop a few gazillion dollars on an old company at this point, even atari.

Fact1: Atari is in a dire financial situation
Fact2: E3 attendance is an EXPENSIVE business

Combination of Fact1 and Fact2: Atari decided to safe a shiatload of money by not attending the E3, especially as E3 is not nearly as important marketing wise as it was years ago.

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Sony announces purchase of Atari..

Atari's games are now shown under sony's name.

GO GO GO!

Atari is the poor bum you see on the sidewalk. They don't make good games nor do they have any money to afford being at E3!

I don't understand how this has anything to do with Sony at all.

Also I lol'd when the guy that wrote the article called Ready 2 Rumble Revolution a "major exclusive sports title." Hahaha, what? It's about as much of a major exclusive title as Rocky and Bullwinkle was for the Xbox 360.

They should have them release all their games exclusively to the PS3.

Editorial : this article is balls

On a different note, why was this crappage not filtered out by the source filter? Wasn't that kind of "news" the whole reason behind the filter to begin with?

The filter works. It's just the person who posted the "article" has it under 'news' instead of under 'blog'.

Ouch just got a paper cut! Damn you Sony!

Sony kicked my puppy and poured grape juice on my white rug too!

I cannot believe this nonsensical excrement was approved. Did you fools even read the "article?" You can't stand on proof, put together by toothpicks and elmer's glue. Nothing he even said makes sense. It has to be a sarcasm article.

No aids was caused by the USA, Testing new infections on african people.

9/11 was done by the CIA.

Bush and his arsehole father brought USA to it's biggest low ever. And now you've exchanged a muppet for a puppet.

In other news, SONY buys more shares in KFC. Sells shares in Walls.

sony is responsible for cancer, world hunger, and war?

can this story be reported for stupidity?

Lmfao, what?

The hatred of Sony is just...wow. I don't even know where to begin.

just took a huge dump danm you sony lol

This actually falls in line with what I said before.

Atari likely cant afford to Publish the game in Europe on other consoles. Sony said, sure well do our machines, but they didn't neccessarily stipulate any exclusive deals, they're just taking care of their own business. Whats stopping M$ from doing the same?

Everyone just wants to jump on Sonys back, never even considering that it might just be Ataris money problems stopping the game getting out.

What is this crap Phil was and still is great. He did so many great things for the Playstation brands that I can't believe I read this and wasted my time.

he sure does have a tick against sony if he can spot that many coincidences. but he does an excellent job in not explaining a single way in which sony would of actually managed to talk Atari out of E3. a list of coincidences means nothing.

http://www.gamersreports.co...
Just to avoid the coincidence huh repeats.

He had some good points such a shame it was ruined by such bias.

Big mistake imo.

Lame, Article Fail

Harrison ruined Sony???? the author of this article must be 9.

Phil Harrison to MS and Nintendo: "pwned"...

Garbage website and a garbage article. Look how he goes into the comments so he can defend him self. lol

How about they just change their mind and save it for TGS?

What an idiot. Thats nothing but pure speculation and flamebait. Id like to see one shred of proof for any of his claims. of course he wont have them. He even tried to say Sony is responsible for Atari not showing Tekken 6. Of course they wont show it because guess what they arent making it. This article should get pulled and the guy should never be allowed to contribute any of his crap here again.

I'm never gonna click on a link for Gamestooge.com again. What a coincidence, huh?

Seriously, that article sucked.

N4G will be at Defcon Red Alert when E3 finally hits...

That's one less multiplatform game to lookout for at E3.

I think SONY have every right to have Ghostbusters game TIME EXCLUSIVE ON THEIR SYSTEMS FIRST. Look at what M$ did to SONY IN THE PASS HAVING EXCLUSIVE AFTER EXCLUSIVE. But i still say Atari should be at E3 to show off their game Ghostbusters on the PS3 System. And everyone knows SONY PICTURES OWNS COLOMBIA PICTURES, which is the truth. But I say this time exclusive will help them sell the PS3 Hardware. ONLY MY OPINION.

this was written by stooges for stooges.

Wait, so Ghostbusters WILL be available in June for Xbox 360 in North America? I may be late to the table on this, but it looks like Sony's timed exclusivity deal is only for EU. On Wikipedia, it says

Release date(s)
NA June 16, 2009
EU June 19, 2009 (PS2, PS3), Late 2009 (Xbox 360, Wii, DS, PSP)

So it looks like 360 gamers will indeed get to play Ghostbusters in June if you live in North America. Awesome! And if you live in EU, it's not a true Sony exclusive, only timed!

I agree with article :D

This site is lame. News 4 Trolls

Atari is broke. It's just that simple.

2Old2Play doesn't need to fish for hits like this.

this guy has no informations regarding atari. this could be instead one of the real reasons:

namco-bandai is expected to acquire the entire Atari Europe division and Atari will become US-only brand

http://www.edge-online.com/...

he doesnt want to be a product of his wana be a product of his enviroment,
he wants his environment to be a product of him!! best phil quote ever!!

It's great how editorial usually means an idiot's opinion these days.

Srsly, on a very related yet unrelated point, those comments people left that Jonah Falcon kid on his website are ridic harsh and mean. I mean, I understand that there a bajillion sony fanboys out there who when they see someone diss sony at all, they just go FANBOY SMASH. but, honestly, the Falcon fella obviously tried to write a good article, and he had some pretty ohkay points, but wasn't it just an editorial, so it's an opinion piece, correct me if i'm wrong.
Regardless, people need to calm down, having an opinion is one thing, but no reason to just degrade someone soo terribly, regardless of the anonymity. Jebus rice.

So baldylocks going to screw over atari as well as he did ps3rd.