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Speaking to Three Speech, President of Worldwide Studios, Shuhei Yoshida, has outlined the importance of first-party development to ensure exclusive titles end up on the PlayStation 3.
“My role is to run first-party development, and we are always exclusive. Because, in this generation, it costs much more to develop one product, it’s just natural for third-party publishers trying to recoup the investment from multiple platforms. I think that’s pure economic pressure, pushing most of the third parties to move from some exclusive titles to more multi-platform titles,” said Yoshida-san. “Because we know that is the trend, we, as a company, can invest in our first-party studios; in terms of exclusive titles, our role becomes more important.”
Of these first-party exclusives it’s LittleBigPlanet which has Yoshida-san most excited.
“The title I’m most excited about is LittleBigPlanet, because it has so many things to offer to consumers. And that, I hope, will become a major step forward for the whole industry, regarding how we will empower consumers and get them creating,” he said.
He also believes that PS3 owners can expect to get something extra in their third-party releases that you won’t get on other platforms.
“As far as I can see, with major publishers like Activision and EA, their major titles will be day-and-date with the Xbox 360 and their quality will be really good. And some of the titles, I expect, will have something extra because of the PS3’s abilities and the space on the Blu-ray format,” he explained.
So far this certainly hasn’t been the case, with the majority of multi-format releases tending to favour the Xbox 360 version, but it’s a problem which is becoming less common.
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