NitroNeo Posted February 21, 2013 Report Share Posted February 21, 2013 Publisher : TBADeveloper: Thekla Inc.Genre : PuzzlePlatform : PS4 [Console Exclusive] , PC , iOSScreenshots Braid creator Jonathan Blow took to the stage to announce that his upcoming game The Witness will debut on the PS4 as a timed exclusive.The game will see players explore an abandoned island to solve puzzles. Blow explained the game is really about epiphany, and each puzzle will have a single idea behind it.The game will feature 25 hours of gameplay. The Witness will also be a PS4 launch title. Trailer, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sackboy Posted February 21, 2013 Report Share Posted February 21, 2013 My most anticipated game by far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyler Posted February 21, 2013 Report Share Posted February 21, 2013 The visuals... so pretty... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zod Posted February 21, 2013 Report Share Posted February 21, 2013 Nitro Platform : PS4 Game is not exclusive to PS4..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sackboy Posted February 21, 2013 Report Share Posted February 21, 2013 Yes, http://www.engadget.com/2013/02/20/the-witness-playstation-4-exclusive/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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dante77 Posted February 21, 2013 Report Share Posted February 21, 2013 Uh...... whats so great Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyler Posted February 21, 2013 Report Share Posted February 21, 2013 Well it's a puzzle game from the guy who made Braid. It's not a AAA title and certainly not something everyone will enjoy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spindoctor Posted February 21, 2013 Report Share Posted February 21, 2013 Yes, http://www.engadget.com/2013/02/20/the-witness-playstation-4-exclusive/ Same article says later that it's coming to ios and PC. And it will probably eventually show up on xbox as well after a certain period of timed exclusivity. I like the water painting look. And hopefully the game is good too, despite Blow being a blowhard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dante77 Posted February 21, 2013 Report Share Posted February 21, 2013 Well it's a puzzle game from the guy who made Braid. It's not a AAA title and certainly not something everyone will enjoy. Puzzle and Braid developers then its ZOMGGREAT!!!! HYPE!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Boss Posted February 21, 2013 Report Share Posted February 21, 2013 Kinda Minecraft vibe with open world and all. Very interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NitroNeo Posted February 21, 2013 Author Report Share Posted February 21, 2013 I Wonder if people would have bought the game for what it is , if the developers of the game would have been kept secret for some reason Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VelivolusDas Posted February 22, 2013 Report Share Posted February 22, 2013 How The Witness Became a PS4 Game (And Why PC/iOS Owners Can Remain Happy) One of the biggest surprises of Sony's Wednesday evening press conference was the appearance of Braid lead designer Jonathan Blow. The outspoken indie game creator revealed this his team's next game, The Witness, would make its console debut on the PS4. That's led to some confusion that the enchanting puzzle game might onlycome out on PS4. Or only launch on the PS4 first. Not quite, Blow, toldme today, though he seems to have all but written off any other consolereleases. "Our deal with Sony is a limited-time exclusivity thatapplies only to competing console platforms," Blow said. "Basically itis that you will see the game on the PlayStation 4 before you will seeit on the Wii U or the next Microsoft console, if the game ever appearson either of those (whether it appears on those consoles eventually ispurely up to whatever future arrangements might happen between us andNintendo/Microsoft/Random Publishers/Whoever)." He said that the Sony deal doesn't keep him from also launching the The Witnesson PC or iOS at launch, but such matters are more contingent on whetherhis team can get it prepped for numerous platforms at once. "The idealsituation for us is to release everything simultaneously or close tosimultaneously." So what did Sony pay for this? What did Sony doto get a guy whose last game debuted on the Xbox 360? It wasn't money,Blow said. "People have been speculating that I got a money hat for thisagreement with Sony, or that we needed to do this in order to funddevelopment of The Witness. Actually, no money was involved at all. "The real situation is that, because we are a small developer, we only havethe ability to launch on a small number of platforms at once. We likedthe idea of being on a console, and originally we thought we might be onthe PS3 or Xbox 360, but eventually we decided not to target either ofthose due to the relatively low system specs. After some more time wentby, and our release date drifted further into the future, we realizedthat the next-generation console launch time might be a good time torelease the game. (For a while we were hoping to be out substantiallyearlier than the next consoles, e.g. right now, so we didn't startthinking seriously about this until recently). "The Wii U still has pretty low system specs, so it came down to a choice between thenext Microsoft console or the next Sony console. There were people atSony who really liked the game and were keeping in touch with us aboutit, and so we naturally started going to their PS4 developer events, gota dev kit, and started playing with it. I don't have good communicationwith anyone at Microsoft right now, and haven't been disclosed on theirnext console, but all our technical people like the PS4 specs a lotmore than the leaked Durango specs, and we like the positioning of thePS4 (it's about games) a lot more than what we perceive Microsoft'spositioning is going to be. "So we just found ourselves doing aPS4 port. And once we are doing that, it is not practical for us also tothink about another console port. We were going to be a de factoconsole exclusive for Sony no matter what. As I mentioned, there arepeople at Sony who are very interested in The Witness, so they somehow percolated up through the ranks the idea of showing the game in the launch show. "Of course, Sony wants that show to point out things that are going to beexclusive or special to their console. So to be in the show we signed atimed exclusivity for competing consoles. But this was just aformalization of something that was already de facto. We like the PS4and we like the people at Sony we are working with, so it was an easychoice to make the agreement." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sapola Posted March 6, 2013 Report Share Posted March 6, 2013 I'm pretty sure I made a thread for this years that. Bleh. I don't think Witness is a budget indie game, he has spent 2-3m on this. If he is going for time-exclusivity for next-gen, that could be only due to the reason that he probably doesn't have access to Durango. It makes sense to release on 360 and PC as well, probably he can get some other guys to port it, like he did with Braid.I have been following it for a while and when he said once that it will be PS3 only...I snapped. It was like last year some time.BTW 528+ puzzles, so that gonna be get you going for a long time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cat Posted March 11, 2013 Report Share Posted March 11, 2013 Braid creator explains why The Witness went PS4-exclusive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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