Dec 19
A Goat, A Catholic Priest and Sony Walk Into a Bar. Do Game Developers Follow?
Sony is having a banner year…for dumb business moves. Seems that Forbes named the company two times on their 101 Dumbest Moments in Business for 2007. Neither are that low on the list, but both are pretty boneheaded.The first, coming in at number 61, is the launch party for God of War II which featured a dead goat and some rumors of entrails eating that turned out to be, obviously, false. I’m not sure the words “dead” and “goat” could ever scream “good marketing idea” so I’ll have to agree with this one. The second award comes in at number 63 and pertains to Sony’s fallout with the Catholic Church over the depiction of Manchester Cathedral in Resistance: Fall of Man. I’m fully on Sony’s side on this one, seeing as they should be able to depict whatever they want in their games. However, going up against the Catholic Church is never good for sales.
It’s not all bad news, thankfully. In a recent interview with IGN SCEA boss Jack Tretton said the days of developers porting over scaled down games from the 360 onto the PS3 are coming to an end some time soon.
Developers are telling us that they are starting to create their games on PS3 first and take advantage of the hardware capabilities and then port down to other platforms so we are seeing tremendous progress from the third party community in terms of what they are able to do with our development kits.
He doesn’t really make mention of what developers or when they’re going to be taking advantage of said development progression but, if its true, then we should be seeing some truly gorgeous games on the PS3 that outstrip any other platform out there graphically. Maybe then Sony can stop picking on goats and the Catholic Church to get their press.
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well its the time when the ps3 will start having better looking games. awesome
Please read your news sources carefully. Sony was in hot water with the Church of England (aka Anglican Church; Episcopalian Church in NA)which owns the Manchester cathedral. Remember Henry V111? He severed his ties with the Catholic church after the Pope refused his request to divorce Catherine and marry Anne Boleyn. He thereafter declared himself head of the church and state. T.Y.