Insomniac: PS3 Has Become Whipping Boy
Published by Josh Foster July 2nd, 2007 in Gaming, Sony, PlayStation 3.
Ted Price, CEO of Insomniac Games, thinks Sony’s PS3 is getting a raw deal by the media. In a recent interview, he expressed how he believes the console is doing well, and that people are trying to rain on Sony’s parade because they were the top dog for so long.
“I think the PS3 has become the whipping boy for the press, quite honestly. I think everyone just wants to fill it full of arrows because Sony’s had some pretty amazing success over the years. And it’s easy to overlook that it’s been, I think, the fastest selling PlayStation console. I think it’s human nature to want to take down the guy on top, and Sony has definitely gotten its share of… mud [laughs] … but it’s unfortunate,” he said.
“I wish people hadn’t been so ready to criticize Sony, because we’re certainly affected by that as well, since Resistance was synonymous with the PS3,” he continued. “Obviously, Sony has come out and said that there are things they could have done better, but I could say that about any of our games too. The fact is that PS3’s out there, it’s sold well, and we’re looking at an upcoming Christmas that should provide a lot of unique content to players, which is pretty exciting… and top among them Ratchet, of course.”
Besides Resistance and Ratchet And Clark, Insomniac Games also created the first three Spyro titles back in the PlayStation days. So far, every Insomniac title has been made for a Sony console.
Source: GameDaily BIZ
Blame the media all you want but the truth is Sony sealed their own fate when they chose to make the PS3 a trojan horse for Blu-ray and charge £425 for it.
Add to that a lot of very arrogant press statements, a poor supply of games, poor backwards compatability in the pal territories and cross platform titles with frame rate issues. While you can’t blame Sony directly for bad ports it’s likely the result of the PS3’s over complicated architecture.
Nobody, including myself and the media would be knocking Sony right now if they had produced another reasonably priced and well supported GAMES console.
Sorry Insomniac but you are obviously biased towards the Playstation for your own reasons, the media just tells it how it is. (most of the time anyway)
Having owned all 3 current systems, I think including a Blu_Ray drive in the PS3 was a great idea. I personally like having it, instead of an external drive from the Xbox. Blu Ray has helped Sony in their format war, so to knock them for including this feature is not really thinking of the big picture.
The Media does not “tells it how it is”. They are very biased as well. Everyone has a opinion, and to constantly knock the PS3….well it is getting really old and tiring to hear. Why isn’t the Media telling it how it is regarding that bad Xbox 360 quality?
Fact is that the PS3 might be difficult to develop for, and that will be Sony’s fault as well as developers that don’t want to learn. Resistance Fall of Man, Oblivion, Motor Storm, all show that the PS3 is a very “capable” system. Maybe gamers should stop bashing the PS3 and start bashing the developers that port over crappy version of their games and charge us an arm and an leg for it. No one brings up this issue.
i can agree with slim for the most part they have made plenty of mistakes the only thing that is left for sony to do with that 600 dollar paper weight is to lower the price and see if consumers will finally bit the bait so to speak. Microsoft has its issues but at least they can admit to being wrong and try and fix the problem.
Well how long did Nintendo cop it with the n64 and especially the game cube, now it’s sony’s turn
There been turn in the water, fact that game developer go for what easy and fast making on the money. Wii and 360 got that fast boat to money, but how long will that nice fast boat last. Going to run out of gas soon or later, like PS3 it slow moving and will gain after it make it pass the sure short winners.
Insomniac always been good with Sony, fact that Ratchet one of those top winner for games in my line up. Now they have to make choice jump make those title for Wii or 360, stay with PS3 and hope it works.
Well look like rain will keep on going for PS3 owners, myself I own two PS3. One day at launch and other for a $100off when buying new HDTV, plus get sec HDTV half off two.. That was deal
So in last years I been backing up PS3 on news sites, talking about the good part of PS3, which I have spend lots of time understanding hardware and OS place in the PS3 as well using Linux base software to hack/rebuild PS3 OS to make full running desktop computer, but if there no games for PS3 it wont live. I want to see it live there been title I want to play because just make me feel better when I do, Ratchet and Clank one of those title. Nice anthropic animal and games! It goal made in heaven..
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