If there's corporate greed in your neighborhood, who ya gonna call??Not Sony Computer Entertainment or Atari. For those who've anxiously been anticipating the release of Ghostbusters: The Video Game on the Wii, you'll have to wait even later into year. Perhaps forever.

There are very few things in this world that I'm fanboy of, and that I'll get fist pumping angry over if someone screws with it. Ghostbusters happens to be one of those things. When I first heard that a Ghostbusters video game was in the works, I was skeptical to say the least. It took some groundbreaking news, like hearing that all the original crew would be back to do the voice work to pique my interest. Watching the first trailer for the 360 and Wii version sealed the deal for me.

Just as I was beginning to come around and get excited, the bombshell hit. Activision had bought out Vivendi Games, and like a dumb corporate entity decided to drop Ghostbusters from its list of published games. Ghostbusters: The Video Game was in the ever frustrating,publisher limbo. I knew it wouldn't be long before someone realized what a gold mine that Ghostbusters: The Video Game was and is going to be. That publisher happened to be Atari. Due to the publisher switch, we'd have to wait even longer for a release. Atleast it was still on its way though.

Fast forward to yesterday, when some of the gravest news of the year (for me anyway) dropped. Sony purchased the exclusive rights to release Ghostbusters on June 19th for the PS3 and PS2. Thus, leaving the game in even longer limbo for non-Sony consoles.

This has to be one of the biggest punches in the gut I've ever received in terms of gaming news. What could have been going through Atari's head when they did this? It had to have been a multi-million dollar deal that was signed, maybe Atari is really that desperate for the capital. Because now Atari has really pissed off a large consumer base. A large Xbox 360, and Nintendo Wii owning fanbase.

I happen to be one of those consumers. I was looking forward to picking this game up on the Xbox 360, and Nintendo Wii on the same day. Not to mention purchasing the Blu-Ray release. It's not the fact that it's a timed exclusive that makes me angry. But they waited until just under a month before the game's release to do this? Forcing many like myself to switch their pre-orders from Xbox 360 to PS3. The biggest travesty is that I'm going to cancel my Wii pre-order. Talk about lost money for the video game industry.

I hope the money was worth it Atari, because you just lost one consumer who was beginning to have faith in you again. This will be in the back of my head every time I hear Atari is publishing a title. That's not a good moniker to have in the publishing world.

(Update): Atari has now confirmed that this is for the PAL regions only....phew