This is absolutely hilarious. A ridiculous and peculiar glitch in EA's new racing title, Need for Speed: Shift, has allegedly been unearthed, and it's amazing. The title supposedly contains a game-breaking error in which the Xbox 360 version crashes while attempting to connect to the PlayStation Store. You have read that correctly, a 360 game is trying to connect to PSN.
This is just one of many bugs reported to have shipped with Shift. According to reports, the poor game is riddled with problems. The blogger who discovered the PSN connection error describes Shift as "the most bug-ridden piece of code I have witnessed in recent times."
On the one hand, I feel sorry for the developers over what is an incredibly embarrassing cock-up. On the other, I can't stop sniggering at such an amazing failure. I don't think I've ever heard of a game trying to use one console to connect to a rival network, and I am itching to find out how such a disastrous mistake could have happened.
Expect patches to be coming out for this thing very, very soon.
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1:30 PM on 09.27.2009
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In any case, I did hear that Shift's development was led on the PS3, so that could be part of it.
*sniff..* Good times.
Nothing surprising. They just didn't have a QA department it seems.
Rushed etc.
xbox doesnt have bluray. owned..
EA: Over 9000!!!
MS:WHAT 9000?!
I feel quite different now.
Actually, the game fucking sucks on PS3... there are some tracks that are damn near un-driveable because the car wont quit bouncing all over the road. I haven't made it far into the game to witness some of the other known bugs but I know that already I'm SOOOOOOOOO FUCKING GLAD that I rented it through GF instead of purchasing it...
It really sucks though, the game did good on so many level yet fails at some of the most important aspects of a racing sim.
Typical EA.
ITT: EA cares more about release dates than game quality...
or
ITT: EA rushes to beat Forza 3 to market and maintains status quo.
Congratulations on your free prize made of crap.
Sorry you got swindled either way, but hey, at least it's free crap. You could have paid for it. Then you'd really be pissed.
But i still prefer EA over Activision.
Agreed.