Sony's Tretton: 160-Plus PS3 Games This Year!!
Also claims you'll know if your format has failed in three years.
Jack Tretton - Sony Computer Entertainment America's president and CEO - has apparently stated a that there will be massively more PlayStation 3 games available in the next two to three weeks than we'd been expecting.
Speaking to The Mercury News, Tretton said:
The fruits of the labour he's referring is SCEA's relationship with third-party game developers. The 160 number would, in SPOnG's thinking, mean some 60 more games than currently exist on SCEA's own website (listed below). But even that list has some currently non-existent 'games' such as Home (40 on the list) and LittleBigPlanet (45).
Maybe The Mercury News has misprinted the number? Maybe Tretton's confused the number with the number of companies he says are backing Blu-ray:
Maybe he means fiscal year 2007/2008, which would end in March 2008. In which case he'd be directly contradicting his boss, Kaz Hirai, who said back in June that 200 retail games and 180 download-only games will be released to the year ending next March".
We've asked Sony for comment.
Elsewhere in the interview, Tretton has a pop at Activision's chief executive, Bobby Kotick, and his helpful advice on PS3 pricing:
So, a nice piece of inter-industry bitch-slapping, but nothing you wouldn't have predicted. The chances of a spat between Activision and Sony that would lead to either of them refusing to work with each other is highly unlikely.
Something else to keep your eyes out for is Jack's prediction for judging a failed console:
We hope to be seeing Jack and everybody else on the PS3, Wii and Xbox 360 teams for a healthy party in 2012!
Read the full interview at the Mercury News
Current SCEA List
1 Aqua Vita
2 Armored Core 4
3 Assassin's Creed
4 Beowulf
5 Blast Factor
6 Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII
7 Brothers In Arms Hell's Highway
8 Burnout Paradise
9 Buzz!: Quiz TV
10 Call of Duty 3
11 Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
12 Calling All Cars!
13 Colin McRae: DIRT
14 Darkness, The
15 DEF JAM: ICON
16 Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, The
17 Enchanted Arms
18 EyeCreate
19 F.E.A.R.
20 Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
21 Feel Ski
22 FIFA 08
23 Fight Night Round 3
24 flOw
25 Folklore
26 FORMULA ONE CHAMPIONSHIP EDITION
27 Full Auto 2: Battlelines
28 Genji: Days of the Blade
29 Go! Puzzle
30 Go! Sudoku All Levels
31 Gran Turismo 5 Prologue
32 Gran Turismo HD Concept
33 Grand Theft Auto IV
34 Guitar Hero III: Legends Of Rock
35 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
36 Haze
37 Heavenly Sword
38 High Stakes: Poker Edition
39 High Velocity Bowling
40 Home
41 Juiced 2: Hot Import Nights
42 Kane & Lynch: Dead Men
43 Lair
44 Lemmings
45 LittleBigPlanet
46 LocoRoco Cocoreccho!
47 Marvel Ultimate Alliance
48 Mesmerize
49 Mobile Suit Gundam: Crossfire
50 MotorStorm
51 NBA 2K7
52 NBA Street Homecourt
53 Need for Speed Carbon
54 NHL 2K7
55 Ninja Gaiden Sigma
56 Nucleus
57 Operation Creature Feature
58 Pixel Junk Racers
59 Piyotama
60 Pro Evolution Soccer 2008
61 Ratchet & Clank: Tools of Destruction
62 Resistance: Fall of Man
63 Ridge Racer 7
64 Rock Band
65 SEGA Rally
66 SingStar
67 Skate
68 Snakeball
69 Sonic the Hedgehog
70 Spider-Man 3
71 Stranglehold
72 Stuntman: Ignition
73 Super Rub 'a' Dub
74 Super Stardust HD
75 Tekken5: Dark Resurrection Online
76 The Eye of Judgment
77 The Godfather The Don’s Edition
78 The Simpsons Game
79 The Trials of Topoq
80 Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08
81 Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2007
82 Time Crisis4
83 Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2
84 Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas
85 Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent
86 Tony Hawk’s Proving Ground
87 Tony Hawk's Project 8
88 Tori Emaki
89 Toy Home
90 Transformers: The Game
91 Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
92 Unreal Tournament 3
93 Untold Legends Dark Kingdom
94 Virtua Fighter 5
95 Virtua Tennis 3
96 Warhawk
97 WipEout HD
98 World Snooker Championship 2007
99 WWE Smackdown Vs. Raw 2008
Speaking to The Mercury News, Tretton said:
"I think the fruits of that labor is 160-plus games this year for PlayStation 3, 23 developers making games for PlayStation 3."
The fruits of the labour he's referring is SCEA's relationship with third-party game developers. The 160 number would, in SPOnG's thinking, mean some 60 more games than currently exist on SCEA's own website (listed below). But even that list has some currently non-existent 'games' such as Home (40 on the list) and LittleBigPlanet (45).
Maybe The Mercury News has misprinted the number? Maybe Tretton's confused the number with the number of companies he says are backing Blu-ray:
"OK, well I’ll give you a couple of statistics that has me fairly confident: 160 CE companies backing Blu-ray, seven of the eight major studios backing Blu-ray, you’ve got Blu-ray content outselling HD-DVD two-to-one, and by an even greater margin worldwide."
Maybe he means fiscal year 2007/2008, which would end in March 2008. In which case he'd be directly contradicting his boss, Kaz Hirai, who said back in June that 200 retail games and 180 download-only games will be released to the year ending next March".
We've asked Sony for comment.
Elsewhere in the interview, Tretton has a pop at Activision's chief executive, Bobby Kotick, and his helpful advice on PS3 pricing:
"...I’m surprised by it, because I would never venture to suggest what software publishers should price their software at. So I don’t think it’s appropriate for them to suggest what hardware should be priced at."
So, a nice piece of inter-industry bitch-slapping, but nothing you wouldn't have predicted. The chances of a spat between Activision and Sony that would lead to either of them refusing to work with each other is highly unlikely.
Something else to keep your eyes out for is Jack's prediction for judging a failed console:
"So I think it’s a little premature really to make any predictions. I think if you’re a failed format, you’ll know within three years, and you’ll be out of the business within five."
We hope to be seeing Jack and everybody else on the PS3, Wii and Xbox 360 teams for a healthy party in 2012!
Read the full interview at the Mercury News
Current SCEA List
1 Aqua Vita
2 Armored Core 4
3 Assassin's Creed
4 Beowulf
5 Blast Factor
6 Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII
7 Brothers In Arms Hell's Highway
8 Burnout Paradise
9 Buzz!: Quiz TV
10 Call of Duty 3
11 Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare
12 Calling All Cars!
13 Colin McRae: DIRT
14 Darkness, The
15 DEF JAM: ICON
16 Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, The
17 Enchanted Arms
18 EyeCreate
19 F.E.A.R.
20 Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
21 Feel Ski
22 FIFA 08
23 Fight Night Round 3
24 flOw
25 Folklore
26 FORMULA ONE CHAMPIONSHIP EDITION
27 Full Auto 2: Battlelines
28 Genji: Days of the Blade
29 Go! Puzzle
30 Go! Sudoku All Levels
31 Gran Turismo 5 Prologue
32 Gran Turismo HD Concept
33 Grand Theft Auto IV
34 Guitar Hero III: Legends Of Rock
35 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
36 Haze
37 Heavenly Sword
38 High Stakes: Poker Edition
39 High Velocity Bowling
40 Home
41 Juiced 2: Hot Import Nights
42 Kane & Lynch: Dead Men
43 Lair
44 Lemmings
45 LittleBigPlanet
46 LocoRoco Cocoreccho!
47 Marvel Ultimate Alliance
48 Mesmerize
49 Mobile Suit Gundam: Crossfire
50 MotorStorm
51 NBA 2K7
52 NBA Street Homecourt
53 Need for Speed Carbon
54 NHL 2K7
55 Ninja Gaiden Sigma
56 Nucleus
57 Operation Creature Feature
58 Pixel Junk Racers
59 Piyotama
60 Pro Evolution Soccer 2008
61 Ratchet & Clank: Tools of Destruction
62 Resistance: Fall of Man
63 Ridge Racer 7
64 Rock Band
65 SEGA Rally
66 SingStar
67 Skate
68 Snakeball
69 Sonic the Hedgehog
70 Spider-Man 3
71 Stranglehold
72 Stuntman: Ignition
73 Super Rub 'a' Dub
74 Super Stardust HD
75 Tekken5: Dark Resurrection Online
76 The Eye of Judgment
77 The Godfather The Don’s Edition
78 The Simpsons Game
79 The Trials of Topoq
80 Tiger Woods PGA Tour 08
81 Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2007
82 Time Crisis4
83 Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2
84 Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas
85 Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell Double Agent
86 Tony Hawk’s Proving Ground
87 Tony Hawk's Project 8
88 Tori Emaki
89 Toy Home
90 Transformers: The Game
91 Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
92 Unreal Tournament 3
93 Untold Legends Dark Kingdom
94 Virtua Fighter 5
95 Virtua Tennis 3
96 Warhawk
97 WipEout HD
98 World Snooker Championship 2007
99 WWE Smackdown Vs. Raw 2008
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Comments
SuperSaiyan4 18 Dec 2007 12:16
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Most of those games listed are cross platform, some I noticed have not even been released yet and the Sony exclusives arent even in the charts AND those games imo dont exactly stand out as being anything amazing (and I mean the exclusives).
I think once MGS4 and FF13 are released they will hold the charts very well for now I dont think the PS3 platform as much of anything that is appealling otherwise the charts would of course reflect on that.
I think once MGS4 and FF13 are released they will hold the charts very well for now I dont think the PS3 platform as much of anything that is appealling otherwise the charts would of course reflect on that.