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Author ArchiveCommuters in London woke up to the front page headline ‘Millions Hit By PS3 Meltdown’ today.
The London edition of Metro, a free daily newspaper with a circulation of around 750,000, decided that the bug that crashed millions of PS3 consoles was the most important story in the world this morning.
After a public vote, a new road in Derby, England, is to be named after the star of Tomb Raider, Lara Croft.
Over 27,000 people took part in the vote, and 89% of voters chose the name ‘Lara Croft Way’. Other famous names in the running included Derby County footballer Steve Bloomer and engineer George Sorocold, but Lara left them in the dust at the polls.
Sony is seeking to reassure ‘hardcore’ gamers that they won’t be forgotten come the motion control revolution.
Motion control has become associated with ‘casual games’ in the eyes of many, ever since Nintendo’s Wii encouraged your gran to put down her knitting and try a spot of virtual bowling, but Sony believes there is another way.
Rob Dyer, Sony Computer Entertainment America’s Senior Vice-President of Publisher Relations, said: “We have games that will address both the casual consumer and the core. This is not something we take lightly at all. We’re going to have games coming from third parties that are hardcore games – these are not fluff pieces – which will incorporate the motion controller. Given our tagline ‘It Only Does Everything’, we feel the motion controller will only expand on that and give the consumer a great experience.”
Time will tell whether this promise bears fruit – although given the third-party reluctance to develop ‘hardcore’ games for Wii, Sony may be promising more than they can deliver.
Source: Industry Gamers
Sony Computer Entertainment America has said that platform-exclusive games will become a rare beast in the near future.
Rob Dyer, Senior Vice President of Publisher Relations at SCEA, said that: “We’re not going to get the exclusive games – the Mass Effects, Gears of Wars and Left 4 Deads aren’t going to happen nearly as often.”
However, Sony believes this dearth of exclusive games will actually provide an advantage for the PS3. Dyer said: “What is going to be the driving force is either exclusive ad campaigns, like the Madden campaign, or exclusive content like we had with Batman. The PS3 version outsold the 360 version, and what we’ve said to developers is: if you take advantage of what the PS3 can deliver – more content on the Blu-ray disc, better graphics, being able to get more of what the player wants onto the disc – you’re going to see those sales translate.”
