The new president of Sony Worldwide Studios, Shuhei Yoshida says that third party development will favour the Playstation 3 next year. Yoshida spoke with GamesIndustry.biz admitting that the PS3’s launch was disappointing because third party developers had to build their games based upon the Xbox 360’s architecture as Microsoft’s hardware was released earlier.
Yoshida stated:
“…They must have been planning, thinking they have enough time, to port the second game to PS3 and release at the same time with the same quality,”
“So they massively underestimated the effort that was needed to re-architect the game to properly take advantage of the PS3’s multi-core architecture.”
Yoshida also said that there are more and more third party titles now being released on the same day as the Xbox 360 with the same level of quality.
“…and consumers will start to see additional things on PS3 thanks to the storage capacity of the Blu-ray media.”
Lastly Yoshida commented on that PS3 will have the third party advantage in 2009…
“Moving forward I’m totally confident that developers will start to use more from the PlayStation 3 platform. This year is the year of parity, next year is the year of differentiation in favour of the PS3 platform,”
