PS3 has 40 downloadable games in development

Author: Ryan Garside
Published: 3rd November 2006
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PS3 has 40 downloadable games in development

Will Playstation 3's downloadable content be better than XBox Live?

Phil Harrison has recently underlined his intention to make the Playstation 3's online store the most attractive of the next-generation by promising to bring over 40 titles to the downloadable platform.

In an interview with ThreeSpeech he said:

“We’re developing about 40 products that fit that strategy right now. We showed the very first one of those, called flOw, at the Tokyo Game Show for the first time. That got a really, really good response. My strategy was to encourage developers to push the machine technically, creatively, artistically - to innovate in lots of different ways. But don’t be restricted by ghettoising games into a particular genre, or a particular display mechanic, because what we’ve seen on other systems tend to be retro 2D games, and we’re pushing the 3D capabilities of the PlayStation 3. Plus, the fact that every PS3 has a hard disc drive means that we’re not restricted by the size of the download, and that has a huge impact on the kind of game design that you can do.”

Harrison highlights Sony's desire to encourage innovation drawing similarities between the ideas that inspired Playstation 1 games and the upcoming downloadable content:

"We’re seeing an emerging strength in developers creating games specifically for downloadable content. We’re seeing that as a really interesting way of stimulating creativity, experimentation… And it makes me feel as excited about the games that we saw at the beginning of PS1, when there was a lot of really interesting innovation happening in the marketplace. I think we’ll see that on PlayStation 3 as well.”

In other Sony related news things aren't so positive for us Europeans. Reghardware is reporting that now Lik Sang has been successfully put out of business the company will stock the Playstation 3 in both Honk-Kong and Taiwan come 17 November. Poor old Europe will have to wait until March.

Good day or bad day for Sony? Let us know in the forums.
Quote DougEdey 3rd November 2006, 13:13
fl0w has been known about for ages, and wasn't designed for PS3 originally. It was meant to be a tech demo.

To be honest, I don't see it as any major thing, its just like an improvement on the XNA service for XBLM
Quote _DTM2000_ 3rd November 2006, 14:19
It just seems to me like Sony have looked at what everyone else are doing and decided that they want a slice of the action but don't want to look like they're copying. So they've made up a fancy story about how their version is a product of their brilliant design ethos in a hope that the public will think it's better.
Quote M4RTIN 3rd November 2006, 16:26
i also heard sony are doing gamerpoints too, but calling them "entitlements". funy old world eh?
Quote saeghwin 4th November 2006, 22:43
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Originally Posted by _DTM2000_
It just seems to me like Sony have looked at what everyone else are doing and decided that they want a slice of the action but don't want to look like they're copying. So they've made up a fancy story about how their version is a product of their brilliant design ethos in a hope that the public will think it's better.

I think that's just business. Microsoft and Apple copy ideas back and forth from each other all the time in the same way.

I hope they don't adopt anything like the gamerpoint system. I think that is really unnecessary.
Quote Grinch123456 5th November 2006, 21:23
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Will Playstation 3's downloadable content be better than XBox Live?
Actually, "Will Playstations 3's downloadable content even be remotely as good as the pure succulent goodness offered on Steam? According to one Michael Grinshpon (that's me!), the answer is a resounding 'Yeah right'. In other news, the PS3 is still looking like a dissapointment because of feature overload and the current Terror alert level? Somewhere between pink and green and purple."
Quote BladeofTheImmortal 6th November 2006, 20:19
You like Steam? I can't stand that piece of crap.
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