Sony’s Phil Harrison On PS3 Exclusives, Home and More

Sony's Head of Worldwide Studios, Phil Harrison, has played down the importance of the PS3’s launch titles, claiming that it is "always dangerous to judge any system by its launch line-up".

Harrison told a recent interviewer that, “You only have to go back to the games that launched PlayStation One and PlayStation 2… 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 added, "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 PS3’s online Home service to launch this coming October. Meanwhile, leading PS3 developer, Ted Price of Insomniac Games, (the Resistance Fall Of Man guy) has said that he thinks, “the PS3 has become the whipping boy for the press… I think everyone just wants to fill it full of arrows because Sony's had some pretty amazing success over the years…And it's easy to overlook that it's been, I think, the fastest-selling PlayStation console. I think it's human nature to want to take down the guy on top, and Sony has definitely gotten its share of...mud [laughs] ... but it's unfortunate."

Price added that Christmas 2007 "should provide a lot of unique content to players" not least Insomniac's own Ratchet & Clank: Tools of Destruction (pictured here).

^{source: GAMEDaily.biz/ Game Informer}