OXM: Ace Combat 6 TIMED exclusive on the Xbox 360?

Well, this writer has argued that the PS3 wouldn’t miss out (one way or the other), but inasmuch as nothing official has been announced, we and almost everyone else has made out Namco Bandai‘s Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation as exclusive to the Xbox 360. At least until over at Evil Avatar and PS3Forums, members in both cite the recent Official Xbox Magazine (OXM) whose game preview claims that AC6 is a timed 360 exclusive.

Not only is Ace 6 the first time the series has departed from a Sony platform and handhelds, but it’s a timed exclusive for Xbox 360. It won’t hit the other systems for a while.

Well, that changes everything again, doesn’t it? Hey, can any owner of the latest OXM confirm this for us?

We’re keeping this as a rumor for now, even if it is OXM (Namco Bandai America’s PR doesn’t say anything about “timed”). Now presuming OXM got everything straight, and this claim is legit, this might not mean a sort of “parallel story” on the PS3, or waiting for AC7 on the PS3. This would mean the same content (okay, maybe a few in-box bonuses for the PS3 version, coming later to the 360 via download, that sort of thing), yeah, PS3 has to wait a bit, but most of all, ultimately the same multiplayer.

While Ace Combat never really had online multiplayer combat before, it’s still kinda hard to imagine the AC community split between two services (XBL and PSN). And not everyone owns both a 360 and a PS3. Like we said: that’s presuming OXM got it right on the ball. I’ll go with juxta (Unregistered) who commented back in that Weekend Slowdown article:

Ooh ooh, here’s an idea let the multiplayer online be cross platform and let the fanboys slug it out in the sky. hehe

There’s an idea indeed. A silly, even futile idea, knowing the intractable divide between Sony and Microsoft. But then, this ace took to the skies with Pixy’s words ringing in his ear: The world has no need of borders. What do borders really mean? (Guess there are no fanboys in foxholes, either.)

Well, this writer has argued that the PS3 wouldn’t miss out (one way or the other), but inasmuch as nothing official has been announced, we and almost everyone else has made out Namco Bandai‘s Ace Combat 6: Fires of Liberation as exclusive to the Xbox 360. At least until over at Evil Avatar and PS3Forums, members in both cite the recent Official Xbox Magazine (OXM) whose game preview claims that AC6 is a timed 360 exclusive.

Not only is Ace 6 the first time the series has departed from a Sony platform and handhelds, but it’s a timed exclusive for Xbox 360. It won’t hit the other systems for a while.

Well, that changes everything again, doesn’t it? Hey, can any owner of the latest OXM confirm this for us?

We’re keeping this as a rumor for now, even if it is OXM (Namco Bandai America’s PR doesn’t say anything about “timed”). Now presuming OXM got everything straight, and this claim is legit, this might not mean a sort of “parallel story” on the PS3, or waiting for AC7 on the PS3. This would mean the same content (okay, maybe a few in-box bonuses for the PS3 version, coming later to the 360 via download, that sort of thing), yeah, PS3 has to wait a bit, but most of all, ultimately the same multiplayer.

While Ace Combat never really had online multiplayer combat before, it’s still kinda hard to imagine the AC community split between two services (XBL and PSN). And not everyone owns both a 360 and a PS3. Like we said: that’s presuming OXM got it right on the ball. I’ll go with juxta (Unregistered) who commented back in that Weekend Slowdown article:

Ooh ooh, here’s an idea let the multiplayer online be cross platform and let the fanboys slug it out in the sky. hehe

There’s an idea indeed. A silly, even futile idea, knowing the intractable divide between Sony and Microsoft. But then, this ace took to the skies with Pixy’s words ringing in his ear: The world has no need of borders. What do borders really mean? (Guess there are no fanboys in foxholes, either.)