In a major change of heart, Kaz Hirai has said that Sony may consider paying for third party exclusive titles for the PS3. Microsoft has been practicing this method since the first Xbox came about, while Sony has held its stance that it just isn’t necessary. But the times they are a changin.
King Kaz let the info slide in an interview with Three Speech. When Phil Harrison joined Sony way back in the day, he enacted the policy of not paying for third party exclusive titles. Now that Phil jumped ship to Atari/Infogrames, it might be time to revisit that policy. The PS3 has had a less than stellar start and there haven’t been many good third party exclusive titles on the system. Paying for some might sell more consoles and bring Sony back into the fight here in North America where they’re trailing Microsoft in the console wars.
We’ll see what happens over the rest of the year if this does occur and if it pays off for Sony.
oooh this might be a hint on what to expect at E3!
Hopefully Square don’t make FF XIII & FF Versus XIII on 360, it may be possible since they’re developing some towering games for the 360.
do you think that the PS3 will have good exclusives or bad ones?