« The Downside home page
« Steve Irwin, you will be missed (updated)
What in blue blazes… »

One more nail in the coffin of PS3: No games

Here’s the tally:

  • Launch delayed
  • $500 price point at launch (while Xbox 360s will likely be going for $350 by then)
  • 400,000 units for US Launch, 100,000 for Japanese launch due to difficulties in producing BluRay drives
  • BluRay games will load slower than HD-DVD (Source: A cross-platform game developer)
  • And perhaps worst of all, Sony can’t produce BluRay discs fast enough, so the launch titles will all have very low shipping volumes - even the top-tier licenses will only have 50,000 to 100,000 copies available this year. That’s right, even if you do want to spend $500 on the PS3, you may not be able to find games for it. When you consider that most of the sales for any console game happen within the first two months, any developer slated to release a PS3 launch title is in bad shape right now, and they’re certainly not happy with Sony. (Source: cross-platform game developer at an A-level publisher.)

Now, I do wish Sony the best, but I really don’t know how this launch could be shaping up to be any worse…

Explore posts in the same categories: Games, Sony, Technology

This entry was posted on Monday, September 11th, 2006 at 10:16 am and is filed under Games, Sony, Technology. You can subscribe via RSS 2.0 feed to this post's comments. You can comment below, or link to this permanent URL from your own site. Your comments will appear immediately, but I reserve the right to delete innapropriate comments.

4 Comments on “One more nail in the coffin of PS3: No games”

  1. ZacLohrenz.com - Blog » Blog Archive » The Thing That Could Save the PS3? Now Gone. Says:
    September 23rd, 2006 at 7:23 am

    [...] The one thing that may have been able to save the PS3, games, has now been nixed. Why? Blue Ray. Blue Ray will sink the PS3, and this article has a few reasons why. [...]

  2. You NEWB » Blog Archive » How Sony can turn the tide Says:
    September 24th, 2006 at 10:18 am

    [...] Posted by Curtis on September 24th, 2006 I know I (and everyone else really) have been pretty down on Sony lately but I’m really no Sony hater…really. I still believe that they can be a top contender in this next-gen console gaming war that’s set to officially being in just a few short months. There are a few reasons that I belive Sony can make their Playstation 3 THE console to own. Above both Microsoft’s impressive but limited Xbox 360 and Nintendo’s less powerful, but chock-full-of-innovation Wii. These are my reasons: [...]

  3. One more nail in the coffin of PS3: No games « All Things News Says:
    September 25th, 2006 at 1:39 pm

    [...] Straight from The Downside: “And perhaps worst of all, Sony can’t produce BluRay discs fast enough, so the launch titles will all have very low shipping volumes - even the top-tier licenses will only have 50,000 to 100,000 copies available this year. That’s right, even if you do want to spend $500 on the PS3, you may not be able to find games for it. When you consider that most of the sales for any console game happen within the first two months, any developer slated to release a PS3 launch title is in bad shape right now, and they’re certainly not happy with Sony.” [...]

  4. Gaming News » Sony doing all they can to sink the PS3 Says:
    April 18th, 2007 at 4:43 am

    [...] copies by year-end, so games will be scarce, and publishers’ profits will take a beating.read more | digg [...]

Comment: