While Microsoft continues to play its cards close to its chest (if indeed it has any cards), Sony has been nothing but forthcoming about 2009's big PS3 hitters. Sony Worldwide Studios boss Shuhei Yoshida has been boasting of the PlayStation 3's upcoming library, touting 2009 as a year full of "big, exclusive PS3 titles."
"Just to name a few, the year will start with the much anticipated launch of Killzone 2," Yoshida boasts. "Followed by a fresh, new take on the superhero/anti-hero open sandbox genre inFamous, a mind-bending thriller Heavy Rain, a massive 256 player simultaneous online shooter MAG, an augmented reality, virtual pet in your room experience EyePet, and some more big titles that we have not even announced yet."
Meanwhile, Sony UK's David Reeves has been claiming that profit is the company's ultimate goal this year, claiming that everything else will slot into place once some actual money is being made from the PS3. Good luck with that.
It's true that the PlayStation 3 has a solid number of hard hitters looming ahead. Whether or not they will be enough to remove the stigma that the PlayStation 3 has earned for the past two years remains to be seen.
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3:40 PM on 01.06.2009
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I doubt they'll ever make back the cost of the PS3 - ever.
Also, Reeves reveals some seriously backwards-thinking. You don't "slot everything into place" once it's made money. What does that even mean anyways? Once it's made money they're going to give it some attention? So now they're just lingering on the hope that what's out there will make enough money and that Yoshida can convince enough buyers and developers on the fence that it will be worth it? That makes it seem like to me (one of the "late adopter" type of consumers, the biggest group) that the best time to the buy console is in the future...or never. :P
I think I used my PC more than I used my consoles.
All of those games look and sound sweet except for Eyepet and MAG. MAG hasn't really done anything to stand out to me.
Is anything bigger than MGS4 and LBP from last years exclusives coming out this year though? No.
I'm looking forward to most of those games!
Same here, and I got my PC in November. I love the thing. Everybody should have a gaming PC. Now that I have one, all this worrying about if my console will have enough good new games is a thing of the past.