Not a tragic loss, It doesn't look to good anyway, The tables still dissapear like they did in the older WWE games...Same stuff...Better graphics.

Everytime something doesn`t go you ps3 fans way, it`s written off as not good anyway or i don`t care about that game anyway!! Had this game only been coming to ps3 then you all would have been talking major smack!!! It`s not coming in 2006 cuz the ps3`s hardware is garbage and is too difficult to code!! That`s why period!! Had this been out on ps3 already, porting it for the 360 would have been much easier to do!!

PS3 will depend on 360 for it's survivel. This genre is huge, #6 WRONG! i hate WWE games but many love it . lol

Dont worry about the ps3 SVR 07 not coming out the ps2 version will look as good as the 360 one. roflmao!!!

The headline makes it seem like THQ just gave up on the PS3 version. I guess that gives fans of either console a reason to actually come in and observe the article. My question is why did it say it's "canceled" and not "postponed" in the headline, if it's obvious that it's postponed until sometime in 2007? I mean postponing a game isn't a big deal. There was a bunch of 360 game that were postponed and it really didn't effect anything. I think it was postponed because THQ just isn't efficient/use to the PS3 hardware right now.

He's telling me that PS3 is so hard to deal with that it would have been the difference between Ps2 and 360 if they would have relaesed them at the same time. Aren't you worried this is a major problem in regaurds to the speed and quality of which games will come to the PS3 and how will this effect the base of PS fans.

WTF is so funny? i hate WWF games but i dont speak for the huge WWF fanbase. This news doesn't help PS3, what's so funny about that?. You disagree with my comment about games being ported over from 360 to PS3 helps PS3 stay in businness?. Again Microsoft is helping Sony with developing tools providing the meangs to pump out games fast enough to keep their fanbase. Sony is an parasite. lol

Sony dev's had same amout of time to develope games. The delay in japan or what ever the truth is; isn't MS's fault. 360 tools aloud dev's to put out good/so so launch games early. And it worked to get that fanbase lol and after the 2nd wave of games 360 owners will be dazzeled like no gamer ever has and will for a while or until xbox720

Wow, this totally sucks for PS3. I'm a huge fan of the SvR series and I buy it every year. I just recently bought a xbox 360 and I love it, so I will have no problem buying the game for the 360. Its just too bad that I won't have a choice what system to buy it for until 2007's holiday season. Granted I won't buy a PS3 until 2007's holiday season (never buy a new console until they have the bugs worked out). It just kind of sucks to see that although games are released for all systems, that certain systems will have to wait for a year until it is released. Sony must have pissed off some people lately which is really too bad.

Its still in development for PS3,delayed till 2007.

I`m tired of all the talk about the final dev kits for the ps3 as an excuse!!! Didn`t you guys see the killzone demo at E3 2005? (cough) So why can`t this game be done??? XBOX 360 is xbox 1.5 remember? So this game should be easily done on the ps3!!! LMFAO!!!! STOP THE BLOOD-CLOT CRYING!!! PS3 MUST DEAD!!!

More good news for XBox 360 owners.

t has been delayed, due to SONY not accepting it in it's current form (SONY America didn't approve it), so they have to work on it, to make it pass SONY's quality requirements:

"This is a standard procedure to make certain that the game is up to standards...""

Why don't they do the same procedure for 360 version? Cause M$ doesn't use quality standards, they take everything they can, which in this case means they are taking current-gen game with better graphics.

SmackDown Unplayable on PS3?
Your quote: "The next thing to do is locate what THQ is calling its "sweet spot." As an example, if you grab the title with your left hand, the sweet spot can be found by moving the left analog stick around. The closer to the spot you get, the more the controller will rumble. A "Ladder Gauge" will then appear on the screen and start to throb and disappear."

How is the PS3 going to compensate for not having rumble? It would be nice for THQ to come up with a system that uses the tilt instead of just mashing buttons this time around.

--Sean

A tilt feature is what I would expect to -- perhaps and a PS3-specific onscreen gauge that indicated if you were moving the controller around its axis correctly? Sadly, I couldn't elaborate more on what the PlayStation 3 version of SmackDown will offer in my preview earlier today. In fact, THQ has been very hush-hush on the PS3 version of that game in general (other than releasing general "next-gen" shots, which are probably taken from the 360). Hopefully that will change sometime soon, though.

--Jeremy

How about this...

Sony not letting Raw on their console in order to give the developing more time and get better graphics. Therefore they could say that "hey look WWE looks better on the PS3 so it must be more powerful."

Genji will rule them all. No i really laughed my ass off. Warhawk???? whatever floates you're boat i was just being sarcastic. lol

I agree; Sony will have to weed out average looking games to compete. Sony can't afford the freedom Microsoft has and will have to market their console differently than PS2. About you're comment i think you're theory is already working with the 1st wave 2nd wave of games BS.

we see Fanboys running droves now huh?
What does PS3 must dead!!!! mean? it MEAN PS3 MUST DEAD!!!! Cause WE NAH DE PON DEM TINGS on PS3. The WII60 revolution is about to jump-off. Oh yeah we starting to get tired of sony tv showing reruns of Metal Gear 4.
Time to hang it up. Once THQ Cancelled this game you know something is wrong.

From General:
"Not a tragic loss, It doesn't look to good anyway, The tables still dissapear like they did in the older WWE games...Same stuff...Better graphics."
What does tables dissappearing got to do with anything? That stinging sensation you feel in the back of your head is pride f!@#ing with you. You just feel mad crunchy inside.
I know you hurt and you have no savior to look forward to but its ok 360's are still on the shelf well take you in with open arms.
PS3 MUST DEAD and GWEH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!

Um PS3 owns all, where are you? you disappeared with your proof now that you have seen the truth about this game and that it really is cancelled, so now who is the idiot fanyboy? geesh...

it didn't cancelled u idot it postponed

You think that's true? This article is just bs. All other sites say its been delayed til late 07. so WAKE UP. The future is ALMOST HERE with the ultimate TRUE next generation system, The PlayStation 3!

Some of you really need reading comprehension to understand what something actually says. The article states that they postponed the debut of the smackdown series(keyword) until holiday 2007. For those who cannot understand this it means smackdown 2007 will not be coming to the ps3 but that there will be a future version of smackdown(probably 2008) coming next holiday season. Learn to understand the meaning of words.

In the post about Webzen's game cancellation for PS3, the PS3 has a lot of ifs surrounding it right now-- IF it makes nov. 17th release date, IF Sony can ship the # of systems they promised, IF they don't have significant problems with their cheap blu-ray drives, IF people will but it for $600, IF its launch titles can compete with 360 heavyweights like Gears of War, Forza 2, etc., IF, IF, IF. I think publishers are waiting to see "IF," 1. Sony can deliver what they promised when they promised it (and the past year or so of Sony's failed promises make this look a little... scary) and 2. If people will "buy the thing just because it says Playstation on the box, no matter what the price" like good ol' Ken K. says. Or, look at it this way. How many gamers buy wrestling games anyway-- on the high side, lets say half of the people that own a console will buy a wrestling game for it. If Sony ships the PS3 on time and makes the numbers it is forcasting (2 mil world-wide by the end of the year) That is, at best, the chance to sell 1 million copies of a game that will cost a bunch to do right, not just port over the 360 version. If they wait a year, make a better game, and release it when there are more installed PS3's world-wide, they will sell more. Period. It's just good business. The only problem is with more and more developers taking this attitude, there will be less games available to potential PS3 purchasers over this next year, and some will buy a 360 instead, or wait, which means smaller installed base, which means some companies will still wait on PS3 titles or versions, etc. Vicious circle ensues....

You are right. Thats what I have been saying. Sony won the last two gens because of Games available. The roles have reversed this time. Microsoft has more games available and ps3 get ports that keep getting cancelled or delayed. And its all because of Sony's price point. If the ps3 would have launched at 300 to 400 they would have a better chance at competing against MS. Now the fight is over before the first round. Knock out punch that Sony will not recover from. 10 millin 360's when the ps3 launches.

Anyone has to admit that there have been a lot of cancellations for the ps3 lately. I don't know all of the reasons but have heard several developers in interviews complain about the difficulty of the ps3 to program for. This may be a bad indication but may not, we will just have to wait and see. Which by the way #18 the article says that THQ cancelled it, not sony and their great "quality" people. Let praise be where it is deserved but that one is not it.

Deano is a idiot and all you other fanboys who overhyper this 4th gen ps2 game.

Deano said:
"with some anistropic filtering thrown in for good measure…" Why for good measure?
You don't know your own sh1t? this game is garbage, PS3 is garbage and Deano is garbage.

The company has strong momentum for the Xbox 360. In its fiscal fourth quarter, which just ended June 30, Microsoft sold a quarterly record high 1.8 million game consoles, raising its total sales to 5 million globally.

Microsoft has sold 3.3 million of the popular game machines in the U.S., 1.3 million in Europe and 400,000 in the rest of the world since its Nov. 22 launch last year.

http://www.gameshout.com/ne...

Show a link with a dev saying what you claim about anti aliasing on a ps3 game. The screen shots are full of jaggies. Stop lying dude. lol..lol..lol

i really dont know what the big deal is with that heavenly sword game it looks ok nothing spectaculer ... it looks better in motion , the screen shots make the floor look kind of flat charecters lack detail etc ,,, much better in motion but still think its gona be over hyped by sony like alot of there games

try asking any dev about there game and they will big it up lol ,, they wont say bad things about there game now will they? lol..

C`mon brother, ya gotta come better than that!! I`ve been telling all of you ps3 fans since ps3today.com that the ps3 was gonna have all of these problems!!! And now look, you still don`t believe it when the sh!t has been smeared in your face!!! First you ps3 fans said that xbox 360 is xbox 1.5 and that ps3 is twice as powerful! You had your killzone cgi movie trying to pass it off as actual gameplay, then E3 06 killzone is a no show??? Damn, even a sony employee told you that the ps3 was trash compared to the xbox 360 and lost his job for it and you still don`t believe!! Then you said wait til E3 2006, sonys gonna kill everybody then!!! E3 2006 comes and sony gets it`s @$$ handed to them by nintendo and falls to third place at E3 2006!!! Then game cancelation after game cancelation and you still don`t believe!! I do know what it`s like to be in your shoes by losing to the ps2 with my dreamcast but at least I was blind sided!! The dreamcast had great games so it wasn`t as easy to tell that the system would fail! It failed because of the lack of a dvd player, especially in japan where at the time they were new to dvd!!!! But you ps3 fans on the other hand, have a lot of omens to look at and use wisdom before you lose your hard earned cash on trash LOL!! Look at all the bad news this system keeps getting before launch, it`s common sense to see it! First the lie about being twice as powerful than 360, then the lies at E3 05 with killzone and so on, then the delay, then the employee from sony getting fired for saying XBOX 360 is better, then almost a no show at E3 06 and assassin`s creed being ran on an xbox 360 under a sheet and being passed of as a ps3 game, then all of the demos at E3 06 on the ps3 freezing up, then the staggering price tags, then sony taking out a lot of stuff out of the ps3 that they said would be in the ps3, then no rumble feature in the controller, then game cancelation after game cancelations!! TAKE MY ADVICE AS A SCORNED DREAMCAST FAN,,, WAIT TIL LATE 2007 BEFORE YOU BUY THE PS3!!! IF NOT, I`LL BE ON EBAY FOR THE REST OF YOU IDIOT`S WHO WANTS TO GIVE ME $1200 FOR ONE!

Ditto. My Man JiggaJay P90z. Keeping it Real.
PS3 Is Not Legit i still Don't Think the System exist and Heavenly Sword is a PS2 Game Being Covered up to be a PS3 Game.I Bet this game come on PS2 this Fall.

You still will benefit because you can play the Playstation 2 version wirelessly on the Playstation 3 online. So, technically you are saving money on the game. BestBuy's price is $39.99 while EBGAMES & Gamestop is 49.99.

Now that Jim Ryan is gone just need to remove Herman Hulst from his position! And maybe give Shuhei the position he deserved.

This gen hasn't been the best for games, last gen consoles are still out there and now there's been talk of the PS6 and Xbox Two for a year or so. Many games this gen will be ported to next gen and the cycle will continue. The re-release of the Neo Geo AES+, games on cartridge for £70 ($95), gaming is going back in time. Gaming has gone pricing mad with the high cost of games, consoles and controllers. The men and women at the top are clueless.

It’s always interesting to hear behind-the-scenes stories like this, especially involving veterans like Shuhei Yoshida and leadership figures like Jim Ryan. That said, there are usually multiple sides to decisions at that level. It could be less about not “listening” and more about differences in long-term vision for PlayStation. Yoshida played a huge role in shaping the brand, so whatever the reason, his impact is undeniable.

If true, and I'm inclined to believe it is, it goes to show that Sony lost their way when they became more western/didn't respect the PlayStation origin story. Andrew House and Jack Tretton did great work, but they also didn't try to fundamentally change the PlayStation DNA. Ryan oversaw the death of Japan Studio and a live service direction.

I already figured this, good lord imagine if Shuhei took over instead, would've been a platinum era 😩

I miss the first three generations of PlayStation. The way they turned PS3 around, we knew they meant business. We were all worried for a bit there around launch. Eventually from 2008 they started shifting slowly. But since Yoshida was fired, it's never been the same. Still enjoy my PS5 daily. I got a backlog dating back to PS2 lol So I'm fine but new games aren't as appealing anymore.

It seems like we were thrown on to the worst timeline possible where everything is too expensive and the wrong people were put in positions that makes the world a shitty place. We could have had Shu as the head of PS but we got the shitty alternative. Same goes for everyone in power around the world. Doesn’t matter the company or country the majority of us got the shitty picks and the world is declining like never before. I do think PS can come out of this because of their studios, talent and IP but they need someone more in touch with gamers leading things like Shu was. They’re still the best place for console gaming imo but it could be much better than it is especially without the massive live service failures. The rest of the world I have a lot less hope for right now. Hopefully the pendulum swings back towards the good ole days but I’m preparing for the worst.

There goes illuminati distraction story

So now there's certifiable proof that Ryan was in fact "fired", as opposed to when it was first announced that he "retired", in order to save face.

There's another guy who recently "retired" as CEO of another large gaming company, after doing a dismantling job as lead for well over a decade.

seems legit, the business man, fires the one who has ideas to move the business forward.

Jim Ryan is the reason why we are entering year 6 since the PS5 launch and many of us don't feel like the PS5 has gotten started as yet.

I hope going forward, we will see a return to form.