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March 31st, 2009, 06:47 GMT · By

Sony Says the PlayStation 3 Lineup Is an 'Embarrassment of Riches'

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The PlayStation 3 didn't get to the best of starts when it was first launched by Sony, as it was gravely unsupported by quite a lot of developers and publishers, thus people who bought it found that they had only a few games that could be played by the big, black Japanese console.

But after over 2 years, things are beginning to change, and, at least according to Scott Steinberg, the vice president of product management at Sony Computer Entertainment America, the lineup of titles to hit the PS3 in the following months is “almost an embarrassment of riches,” which will make individuals definitely buy the console to the detriment of its rivals.

“After Killzone 2, we've got MLB 09: The Show and then inFamous,” Steinberg says. “It's almost an embarrassment of riches and it really bombards the competition with games that show the power and advantages of the PS3. We're shipping a great line-up and it's relentless and AAA quality. Starting it with Killzone 2, we're going to arrest the momentum from competitors with titles like MLB 09: The Show, which some are calling the best sports title ever made. Then, in summer there's inFamous and you'll get to see even more excellent titles at E3. If PlayStation fans thought that we'd rest on our laurels from last year and, if competitors thought that we'd punched ourselves out, both are mistaken!”

Those are some very confident statements, but should you look in perspective, titles such as God of War 3, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves or Heavy Rain are very anticipated by fans and will surely generate a lot of sales for the consoles. Hopefully, the company won't stop here and will continue to bring fresh new games to its lineup so that people won't use the PS3 just as a Blu-ray player or for other features.

What do you think? Is the PS3 going to finally gather up its strength and surpass the Xbox 360 in the near future? Let us know by leaving a comment.

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Comment #1 by: Xelliz on 31 Mar 2009, 12:35 UTC reply to this comment

Ok, so Steinberg lists 3 games...one of which is already out. WOW!! Let me tell you, I've never seen a single gaming platform in all of gaming history bombard us with SO many games.


Comment #2 by: PS3Owner on 01 Apr 2009, 09:35 UTC reply to this comment

@Xelliz, stop being such a fanboy, what's up can't you handle the fact that Sony have a shed full of TRUE exclusive games out this year, whereas Xbots needs to rely mainly on over priced DLC from old games, and of course Halo cash-ins?

The reason he mentioned those 3 specifically is they come out at the start of the year, now I know this may be an alien concept for a 360 fanboy, but on the PS3 they release their exclusives throughout the year, they can do this because they have more than one franchise to rely on.

Let me briefly expand the list for you (from the top of my head), as a fanboy you'll probably be blinded at the sheer quality of these titles, but real gamers will appreciate this is an exceptional year for quality exclusive titles for the console and Steinberg is right to be confident (hell if M$ had just one of these they'd be shouting it from the rooftops [and your response by comparison would have been something like 'awesome 360 pwns PS3 as soon as mine gets it's RROD repaired I'll be buying two copies of that game just to show M$ how much I love them!'])

God of War III
Killzone 2
MLB 09: The Show
InFamous
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
Heavy Rain
Gran Turismo 5
Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time
MAG
Quantum Theory
Katamari Damacy Tribute
White Knight Chronicles
Yakuza 3

PSN:
Flower
Fat Princess
Ragdoll Kung Fu: Fists of Plastic
The Punisher: No Mercy
PixelJunk Eden Encore
Next PixelJunk
Noby Noby Boy
Savage Moon
Trine

There's more, but I can't remember any more without going looking - the point is all of these are confirmed as being, or have the potential of being, AAA titles (and we've not even seen the unannounced E3 titles yet like Team Ico's next project). You look at this years 360 lineup of exclusives and it's a pretty bare in comparison, hell if you discount the titles that are out on other platforms such as PC the 360 probably hasn't had that many exclusive titles (excluding shovelware) in it's lifecycle!

Moving on to exclusives already announced for 2010, they include the likes of:

Final Fantasy Versus XIII
L.A. Noire
Twisted Metal
The Agency
DC Universe Online
Resistance 3


Comment #3 by: TheGlue29 on 01 Apr 2009, 22:20 UTC reply to this comment

LMAO at Xbox fanboy. Yeah, there's only 3 titles coming exclusive to PS3 next year. The level of Xbox fanboy's ignorance is not a surprise, though...we all know that XBL is 80% racists anyways. It figures.

What's really funny is that the only exclusive game the 360 has that I'd even be remotely interested in is Gears Of War...yet these are the people who think Sony's library of exclusives is lacking.

Hilarious.

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