There is a little phrase called “passing the buck” we use here in the greater New York area and this is what Jack Tretton of SCEA is doing.  He states, correctly I might add, that Sony has no power or control of what third party gaming companies are putting out and they need to be better to enhance the power of the PS3.  Here are some quotes from an interview courtesy of gamerindustrybiz:

“If we have to drive the message on our platform with the games that do that…whether they are first party or third…those are the games we are going to focus on and those are the games the consumers are going to make their purchase decisions on,”

“The message I want to send is, we can’t control what the third parties do,” he explained. “We want to encourage them as much as possible, we want to support them as much as possible…to your point, we want to give them the tools.

“We’re a company that does about 20 plus per cent of our business on first party, so believe me, I don’t want to send the message that we don’t need the third partes. We want to encourage them to maximize their development potential on our platform.

Take it anyway you want, but it seems that Sony is not all too happy with the quality of games that third parties are releasing and its a subtle way of saying, if it sucks, we wont buy it. I, for one, agree with his sentiments. What do you guys think?