Eidos May Have Set Bad PS3 Precedent

Ars Technica opines on Eidos' decision to hold off on PS3 games until 2008. Though they make a point of mentioning all of the great steps forward Sony and the PS3 have taken in the last month or so (LittleBigPlanet, Home, the EU launch), they feel this decision may have ramifications for the console. "Though Eidos isn't the most prominent European developer--noteworthy releases for 2006 included the surprisingly decent Just Cause, Tomb Raider: Legend and Hitman: Blood Money--this may set a dangerous precedent for other developers. If Sony doesn't step up to become more proactive at keeping the flow of good games steady, the installed base may not continue to grow quickly enough and developers may begin to pull support, creating a lack of games. This vicious cycle is hard to escape, as Sony has previously learned with the PSP's port problem."

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Re:This is precisely what we have been talking abo

[benzapp]

not least the many indignities they've inflicted upon their customers over the last several months.

It's funny, you always hear stories about the fans of the chariot racing teams forming gangs and battling in the streets after games back in Constantinople (that's Istanbul for you fanbois)... It's just so hard to believe.

At the root of it must be however an extreme desire to apply hyperbole to something that is at most trivial. If anything, you can see how this is a tool of social control. Our world is filled with countless REAL and SERIOUS indignities - but this poster is more concerned with Sony including an HDMI jack than say, the 10 million people dying in Darfur, or the oppressive lawlessness of Latin America and the millions of refugees fleeing into the United States.

The borders of the Byzantine Empire kept shrinking, but the mobs on the street lived and died for nothing but bread and games.

The only indignity here is the reality that fools like this, the so-called consumers, are allowed to even exist. You fanboi, are a tribute to everything that is wrong with the world.