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Sony's Phil Harrison the corporate executive and representative director of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) and Executive Vice President of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE). Says you shouldn't judge a console by its launch line up of games and software.
He also goes on saying consumers don't care if games are First party or Third party, if they're good.
Also whats even more interesting is this "We have a larger platform-dedicated development resource than our competitors combined. So all of that goes towards the fact that the best games with the best technology are coming exclusively to [Sony] platforms."
Hmm lets hope he's right about this.
Sony's Phil Harrison has warned that it's "dangerous" to make predictions about the success of a console based on the software released for it at launch.
Speaking to Game Informer magazine, Harrison took issue with the view that the PlayStation 3 lacks titles demonstrating its superior technology - referring to Motorstorm, Resistance: Fall of Man and Formula 1 to illustrate his point.
Even so, Harrison was quick to warn against judging the PS3 on the basis of those launch window titles alone.
"Now, its always dangerous to judge any system by its launch lineup You only have to go back to the games that launched PlayStation 1 and Playstation 2," he said.
"If you took those few dozen titles and analysed them, you would never have imagined that either of those formats would have on to sell over 100 million units each."
Harrison also addressed the issue of platform exclusives. Although he pointed out he is in charge of first-party output, not third-party exclusives, Harrison said that he is "always concerned to make sure that consumers can buy the best games and get the best game experiences to validate their system purchase".
"[But] as long as the games they get are great," he continued, "[Consumers] dont care if they are third-party or first-party What I do believe is that the investments we have made in Worldwide Studios globally - US, Europe, and Japan - will yield the best quality software and the highest quality experiences that are clearly going to be exclusive to the platform.
"We have a larger platform-dedicated development resource than our competitors combined. So all of that goes towards the fact that the best games with the best technology are coming exclusively to [Sony] platforms."
Harrison expects the Home online service to go live in October and said he is pleased with its beta progress so far. Although he was unwilling to concede that PSP software sales have been unsatisfactory, he did agree that Sony can do more to take advantage of the portable system's capabilities.
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This guy is right, you shouldn't judge a console by its launch lineup, but Sony needs to get their enormous resources on the ball and actually push out some killer apps.
Besides there was some problems and they fixed part of that from the blu-laser diodes and such from my previous article. While some people complain and such there actually trying. And given that they always deliver what they say, it might not be as quickly as Nintendo launch date. But what he is saying is the games that is coming out not the games they have now i wonder if ppl read.
Existenz your so right, Sony is the best when it comes to console and games, they deliver what they promised in the end. They may have a slow start but what does that have to do anything. PS3 wasn't meant for Immediate boom at the market only ppl who misinterpret there statements expected this, i never once though they would make booming sales like wii and xbox. Since those consoles was meant for immediate boom.
Like i said long b4 Sony is the turtle in the tortoise and the hair story. And the hair are xbox and wii.
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