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Sony: First-Party video games are "more important"

Gothic Girl | July 10, 2008 | News | Playstation 3 
Sony's president of worldwide studios, Shuhei Yoshida, has noticed something that gamers may have noticed: There are very few major exclusives in this generation of games. In a recent interview with ThreeSpeech, Yoshida talks about why he believes third-party developers are making so many multiplatform games and, as a result of this, why it is becoming more important for first-parties to make exclusive titles...
Sony's president of worldwide studios (and Phil Harrison replacement) Shuhei Yoshida, says that the role of first-party exclusives is becoming increasingly important as third party devs can rely on multi-platform releases to recoup profits.

"In this generation," said Yoshida, "it costs much more to develop one product, it's just natural for third-party publishers trying to recoup the investment from multiple platforms. I think that's pure economic pressure, pushing most of the third parties to move from some exclusive titles to more multi-platform titles.

"Because we know that is the trend, we, as a company, can invest in our first-party studios; in terms of exclusive titles, our role becomes more important," he went on to add.
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    ali3n | July 10, 2008 | reply
    I can think of first party games from Nintendo but do the other two have any?
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    Silver Mirror | July 10, 2008 | reply
    Microsoft:
    Halo 3
    Banjo Kazooie 3
    Fable 2

    Sony:
    God of War 3
    LittleBigPlanet
    Killzone 2

    It's rather silly to assume only one of the big corporations actually makes there own games
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      MusiKon | July 10, 2008 | reply
      It's understandable, especially from Sony, since they rely on third party support more than Nintendo does.
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      ali3n | July 10, 2008 | reply
      I didn't assume that only Nintendo made first person games, I just couldn't think of any off hand. I phrased my previous post... strangely to say the least.
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    Gutter_Tech | July 10, 2008 | reply
    its about *bleep*ing time that somebody at sony got their head out of their ass. and the president no less? im impressed.
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      Red 9 | July 10, 2008 | reply
      They must've just sat around their PS3 campfire passing round a bong thinking things would magically resolve themselves. Obviously that never happened, and only now, for some reason, are they realising all the mistakes they need to fix. Now we've only to wait to see whether or not it's too late.
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    Zeon I | July 10, 2008 | reply
    1st Party games are more important, yet the ones they have either suck or don't exist yet. Screw you Sony, You were built on 3rd party, you will remain on 3rd Party.
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    Final Blade | July 10, 2008 | reply
    This shouldn't be surprising knowing the money it takes to make games. Take GTA4 that took Over a 100+ millions to produce and they were lucky they got 600+ million from it in a matter of weeks.

    There was nothing in this article that said Sony didn't realize this issues and was just sitting at there campfire. Your just trying to find more reasons to hate sony.

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