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Sony Plans 380 Games for Fiscal Year '08
Next Generation has the word that a bucketful of games are coming to the PS3 during Sony's 2008 fiscal year. While the library for the console consists now of some 60 full-price titles and 50 downloadables, they plan to release 200 retail games and a further 180 download-only titles by March of 2008. "In an e-mail to Next-Gen, Sony Computer Entertainment America PR boss Dave Karraker said that in the U.S. specifically, there are over 105 Blu-ray disc games and around 40 PlayStation Network downloadable games and game packs slated for this fiscal year. However, this figure doesn't include third-party games beyond Christmas, so there should be additional U.S. titles released during Sony's January-March quarter."
I could really care less about the quantity of games being released. what I want to know is, are any of them any good? Anybody out there have a list?
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Wow, it is so sad that you were actually trying to be clever.
Sony has over the past seven years since the PS2 hit the shelves amassed the largest first party development studio array ever for the PS3. Massively larger and more talented than Microsoft's anemic first party studios and significantly larger than the once first party dominant Nintendo.
Here's a tip, get your news from somewhere reliable and not the daily Zonk FUD fest for a change...
Sure they will, localization alone that turns one game into 3. Don't forget reissues and collections or that about 40% of those games aren't going to be seen on US shelves. Of the 105 left, about 90 percent of those games are multiplatform. Almost all of which load faster and play better on a 360 (when it works anyway) months before the PS3 version is published. Of the 10 or so PS3 exclusives 5 won't suck, and three of those will be good.
It will be a grand year for owning a PS3.
I kid though, it takes 2 years for any console to get a steady stream of good software. That has been true since the 80's. X-mas '08 that's when people will be buying PS3's to play the new Final Fantasy et. al.
Just a side note... I have found that as a general rule, you can wait until rumors start surfacing about the next product before buying the current one. You pay less, there are great games to play *now* and the local trade-a-game outfit is flush with them on the cheap.
Still, I bought a PS3 at release. To play Blu-Ray disc's! Honest!
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200 Retail and 180 Downloadable...
So 50 new retail Japan-only games, 50 new most other countries games, and 100 new hentai dating simulators. Which will pale in comparison to the PS2 Hentai dating sims, because PS2 has the vibra....er, rumble feature.
Also, they forgot to include how many of these games will suck, which is probably going to be a large percentage. So the story should be "Sony puts out 'news' in attempts to cover for vastly misjudging it's market" most likely to distract from the rumors of a PS3 price drop.
I now await the ever present blind fanboi army to tell me how wrong I am.
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In other news the sky is blue and nuts are itchy...
You know that out of 380 games, about 340 of them are going to be stinkers.