The PS3 has been doing exceptionally well of late. After a much needed price drop the once ailing console has gained incredible momentum. Its exclusive games – including one of them pretty much unanimously winning 2009’s Game of the Year – have shown the console’s power, and multiplatform games are getting closer and closer to being at parity with, and possibly outshining, those of its HD rival’s.
What does this mean for Sony? Well, other than an increase in cash flow it also means that its executives can throw of the shackles of humility they’ve been burdened with – and get back to that good old fashioned Sony trash talking.
“We do better for our publishing community than 360 does,†SCEA Senior Vice President of Publisher Relations Rob Dyer said in an interview with Industry Gamers. “As our installed base starts catching up and gaining on 360, you’re going to see the publisher side much quicker get to par than even if we had the same number of [360 hardware] units.â€
“…When I walk into an EA, they’re telling me that for Madden, the one platform they’re seeing year-on-year growth is the PS3, or when I walk into Activision and they tell me the same thing for Guitar Hero. Those are big statements, given what has transpired with those franchises,†said the ignoble cur.
And then it got personal.
“They have very few first-party studios at Microsoft. Bungie’s next Halo is the last one, Rare rarely puts out anything, you’ve got Peter Molyneux with his Fable stuff… but they don’t have first-party development studios inside at Redmond or anywhere for that matter. We do. So rather than putting their money behind that, they’ve been going to Epic or Valve or BioWare to do what they did with Mass Effect, and that’s where they throw their dollars.â€
“Candidly,†he added, “we’re not going to compete with Microsoft on that front, but what we have is a global business here. Our global business is bigger than 360’s and will continue to get bigger than 360, and people are seeing that. We passed them in Europe and they don’t even exist in Japan, and we’re going to catch them and pass them here in the U.S. as well.â€
Somebody get Aaron Greenberg on the phone, and tell him the gloves are off. The fight is ON!
Source : Industry Gamers
Last Updated: February 17, 2010
Darthdad
February 17, 2010 at 13:33
Yea baby! Back to 2006, the Xbox SUXXORS!!!!! :silly:
Darthdad
February 17, 2010 at 13:33
How do you walk into an EA, by the way?
WitWolfyZA
February 17, 2010 at 13:35
Upgrade PSN, extended the DLC and arcade downloads.. and bring that damn PSN premium in so we can have a cooler online service.. then you’ll come closer
mitas
February 17, 2010 at 21:34
i have to be a turd here and say i dont like your comment instead if u said ” Upgrade PSN, extended the DLC and arcade download and keep it free and better than xlive ” then sony will have the upper hand , hands doen – no pun
WitWolfyZA
February 18, 2010 at 07:17
Why do you say so?
Remember compared to Xbox market place PSN is almost a ghost town… With a R500 gift card i barely got anything good to buy.. Where with The Xbox Market place, They give you hundreds of titles to choose from. PSN is very limited and some of the games don’t even have mini trailers to watch, or a photo gallery, so i don’t know what the heck i’m buying, even the DLC is a bit limited… Man ill love to have that new Ferrari NFS SHIFT DLC for example too
Reason I said bring “PSN Premium” is because you know just as well as I do, that well never get In-game cross chat with out paying some sort of compensation. And if this “upgraded” brings forth more awesome apps or games to the PS3 ill all for it.
See what im getting at?
SlippyMadFrog
February 17, 2010 at 13:35
“and we’re going to catch them and pass them here in the U.S. as well”
Wishfull thinking, the USA is an Xbox stronghold. As for the rest of the world, they are probably going to catch the Xbox. Well done Sony, now lets see the gaming division turn a profit.
riezo
February 17, 2010 at 14:33
Here I agree with you. Xbox PWNS the US.
RSA-Ace
February 17, 2010 at 13:47
“So rather than putting their money behind that, they’ve been going to Epic or Valve or BioWare to do what they did with Mass Effect, and that’s where they throw their dollars.” Well that is true. But so what. They make money doing that and it means more games for xboxs. When did doing that become a bad thing?
You easily guaranteed your money back if you pay for exclusives like Mass Effect.
Fox1
February 17, 2010 at 14:54
Epic n00b!!! :biggrin:
I see he conveniently forget about Turn 10 :whistle:
riezo
February 18, 2010 at 07:37
Genesis DOES GENESIS DOES!
Sega does what Nintendon’t.