Way back in the day at E3 2007 (yeah, I know it wasn’t that long ago), Sony announced a partnership with NCSoft to bring their MMO expertise to the PS3 and PSP. Today, NCSoft games some of the details on how they expect to accomplish that in a discussion with CVG.

“We haven’t announced any of the titles we might be bringing out, but whatever we bring out, the one thing I can tell you is that, even if they’re some intellectual property we already have, they’ll be things that’ll be very carefully created for the console experience, not merely a straight port”, NCSoft exec producer Richard Garriott told us when we caught up with him at this week’s Develop conference in Brighton.

“We found even back in my Origin days that direct, unadulterated ports weren’t very successful compared to games that you make sure are really crafted correctly for the console experience”, he added.

I’m glad they aren’t going to just throw ports of City of Heroes and such. Richard Garriott is right on the money: gamers would rather have a customized version to make proper use of the PS3 instead of a straight port of the PC versions of their games. Either way, I think NCSoft will do a great job in bolstering the MMO community on game consoles.