Thanks For The Games, Sony

by Gaetano Prestia Featured 9 Comments 26 Votes 1240 Views 25/06/2012 Back to Articles

"We've always felt that the strength of our platform has been a kind of symbiotic relationship between the platform being created and strengthened by new experiences. And then that reinforcing the strength and one hopes the longevity of the platform overall."

Those are the words of PlayStation CEO, Andrew House, when addressed about Sony's large range of PlayStation 3 exclusives coming to the console, despite the powerful hardware approaching its sixth anniversary.

It's easy to question Sony's aggressive first-party software direction, seeing as though Microsoft is sticking to its Halo and Gears of War franchises, while Nintendo is working towards new hardware and third-party support for games that have already been released: at first glance it certainly seems like Sony has more faith in its hardware going forward than its competitors do.

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It's Sony's confidence "to make the investment where necessary" that is driving such an impressive range of software for the hardware. Beyond looks stunning, The Last Of Us seems set to take survival action to all new levels, while PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale seems like a good ol' fashion ode to the brand's best characters, even if a few familiar faces are missing.

What is particularly promising about Sony's commitment to its exclusive software is that it acknowledges the onus to deliver on expectations of original software, no matter how long into its lifecycle it may be.

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While there is a "conventional wisdom in the industry" that innovation can only happen with a new audience within a hardware's first two years on the market, Sony takes a different approach, constantly looking to innovate how its market interacts with its software and hardware.

And as gamers, we should be especially grateful for that.

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Axe99

Good article - the reason my console of choice is a Playstation is because you just don't get the range of quality experiences anywhere else. Hell, you don't even get the range of _shooters_ anywhere else (there's no MAG or SOCOM:Con-alikes on 360 or Wii, and nothing I've been able to find on PC - and no, Counter Strike is not SOCOM, doesn't even come close). The other consoles are great, and PC is unbeatable for breadth, but it relies a lot on smaller devs and indies for this, and thus even the PC lacks games that it can put up to many of the high-profile PS3 exclusives (Heavy Rain, for instance).

The "conventional wisdom" is routinely proved wrong as well - God of War is a great example of a late-gen game that was very successful, and there's more than a few out there.

25/06/2012

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Shtark

Bring The Last of Us to PC petitionbureau.org/...

25/06/2012

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Mike2DMaxx4

I've always found Sony very experimental with its games. Why? Because I find it gets games and genres that we already have and make an experience you will not forget. It builds upon the already mesmerizing games and to me I will always picks Playstation first party over anything else. Although we are still yet to get a game to use the consoles full power, it just shows how much effort and detail is put into their games.

25/06/2012

Sic . Parvis . Magna

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OllyEbbz

Thanks For The Games, Sony.

While i agree there's some great games out for PS3 and on the way i can't help but feel as i always have that Sony really ****ed up this generation.
The first and most obvious thing would be the hardware and the price to develop on the damn thing with the downfall Sony have been seeing with their TV range etc surely they should have played safe, 360 has constantly had it beat when it comes to multiplatform titles which is disappointing especially with all the extra space bluray offers for HD textures and what not.
I wish the XMB would be updated as i feel it is dated and poor to navigate i've never liked it from day one to be honest. Maybe be like Android and offer us the ability to download menu mods i don't know.
PSN drives me nuts, no cross game chat (which on occassions has forced me and friends to switch our xboxes on or use skype to chat while we game on PS3). Can't change your username. Poor PSN store layout. Activating and deactivating consoles otherwise your account hits its limit and renders it useless requiring you to contact Sony and beg for a reset which isn't always guarenteed.The 360 has a far more welcoming online experience with everything you need which i'd gladly pay Sony for. Then there's that damn DualShock 3, why couldn't Sony have updated this? ok it has its fans so leave it in the box but experiment and bring out an updated design sold seperately. I want PS4 now with a new perspective.
I've updated this comment as i did come accross like a blind fanboy, whats new? but there you go.

26/06/2012

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Jet

OllyEbbz said: Thanks For The Games, Sony.
Don't forget the crappy hardware and dated, useless PSN network. I'm hoping PS4 nails it otherwise i can see Sony falling apart, what happened to Sony? they use to make the best of everything, TV's, DVD players, music players, game consoles now they just plain suck.

Sigh,

Crappy hardware? In comparison to what? I can only assume you mean the ps3's main competitor the 360. As much as the fanboys battle about how ones more powerful then the other and that they have yet to reach the full potential of this and that, at the end of the day they are very similar machines, both have a total of 512mb of ram, both running multi core processors and both have similar powered GPUs.

Yes I know that a lot of multi platform games look slightly better on the 360, but then again the ps3 first party titles generally blow the 360 first party titles out of the water as far as GFX go, so that's fairly even in my opinion.

What a lot of people forget is some of small advantages the ps3 has over the 360, such as being able to swap the HDD out yourself, without voiding the warranty with any normal laptop HDD, i.e about 2 years ago I put a 500gb hdd in my ps3 for a cost of $99 when 360 people would have still been paying probably double that for a 250gb, come to think of it, can you get a 500GB HDD for a 360 even now? I dunno if you can.

Lets not forget the PSN is FREE to use and to be honest its hardly even worth me addressing your comment of the psn being 'useless' as I've gone over this so many times to different xbox fanboys and to be honest, I think its just a mental thing where your paying $60 a year so it MUST be better. PSN offers the same multi-player on all your games as live does, it uses the same shitty P2P system that live does (yes, your not paying for servers, its still P2P), it still allows you to download demos, full games, patches, DLC, Movies and gain achievements or trophies, oh and it does it all for Free.

I realise I've gone on a bit of a rant now but it get frustrated when I see people making these comments with nothing to back it up and most of the time they are just talking crap.

26/06/2012

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The Stig

OllyEbbz said: Thanks For The Games, Sony.
Don't forget the crappy hardware and dated, useless PSN network. I'm hoping PS4 nails it otherwise i can see Sony falling apart, what happened to Sony? they use to make the best of everything, TV's, DVD players, music players, game consoles now they just plain suck.

That "crappy hardware" is in all consoles. As soon as they are released, their hardware become irrelivant. Which means it comes back to games and recently, Sony have nailed those. The PSN debacle is old, and whilst PSN may be somewhat "outdated", it's by no means useless. Xbox Live is better quality, but you have to pay $60 a year so Sony did the smart thing imo, instead of making a direct competitor to Live, they made a free alternative.

Quit bashing Sony dude, especially if your arguments are flawed and provide no substance.

26/06/2012

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gamerguy

It's good that Sony is doing that on first-party and PSN titles - who can forget Journey. It's a shame that Microsoft is only relying on its original IPs, and third-party titles to see out its X360.

26/06/2012

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OllyEbbz

Ok, i changed my comment i could have worded it better. If you don't like it just ignore i don't know why i wrote it to be honest knowing the reply i would get, its just how i feel however flawed it maybe.

26/06/2012

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Axe99

OllyEbbz said: Ok, i changed my comment i could have worded it better. If you don't like it just ignore i don't know why i wrote it to be honest knowing the reply i would get, its just how i feel however flawed it maybe.

Fair enough - a lot of what you say is heavily opinion-based though. I personally prefer not having random ads shoved in my face (XBL dashboard ;)). I prefer the way the XMB works - it's quick (not the in-game - the 360's got the in-game menus covered), and you can get where you want quickly, if you know how it's laid out (the 360 dashboard is prettier and more razzle-dazzle, but I'll take function over form every day of the week).

And while the 360 has cross-game chat and party game launching, it's a lot to pay $60 a year for (when you can have cross-game chat free on PC or Vita ;)). Cross-game chat is definitely good, but when it's as overpriced as it is on 360, it's hard to call it a clear advantage.

And what's with activating and deactivating consoles? As far as I'm aware, the 360's restrictions are far more onerous (no way you can have the same accounts content on two systems, unless it's changed since last time I looked).

Agree that we should be able to change our username, and not saying that the 360 doesn't do some things better, but on balance I'm far, far happier the PS3 has been my main console this gen, rather than the 360 (I've had a PS3 all gen, just discovering 360 now - if I was the other way around, I would be "I've been paying for online for P2P when I could have had quality, exclusive dedicated server games on PS3?!!", not to mention the fact that it probably would have been about my third 360 by then (average based on friends' experience with the 360's 'superior' hardware ;)). I'm glad to be able to get into the 360's exclusives, and it's still a good console, no two ways about it (RROD fiasco notwithstanding), but for gaming (and that's why I have a console), it's clear second place for me, given my tastes (I'm not a huge fan of arcade shooters, which is the 360s strength - I still like 'em, but there was enough on PS3 to keep me happy for the majority of this gen, with me catching up on Halo and Gears now).

27/06/2012