Sony Funding 'About 40' Downloadable Games

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday November 1, 2006 @08:23AM from the mini-content-ftw dept.

Eurogamer is reporting on comments by Sony's Phil Harrison about the e-Distribution Initiative for the PlayStation 3. Apparently they already have 40-some games in development, above and beyond the titles they'll have ready for the console launch. Harrison: "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 disk 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,"

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Re:Why does Sony hate 2D games? by PoderOmega · 2006-11-01 09:23 · Score: 2, Interesting

Well, they hate 2D games in the US more than Japan apparently. Look into Working Designs, they had ongoing problems with Sony not approving the 2D RPG games they wanted to translate from Japan. In one instance they had to bundle two games together (Growlancer: Generations) and sell it as one game to get approval, when they wanted to sell the games seperately. From
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_designs
Growlanser Generations sold well, but of course not better than it would have sold as two separate titles. We just spent too much time fighting the good fight to even get it out, and other games approved.

Working Designs is now out of business.