Kotaku
At Sony's 90th general shareholders meeting in Tokyo today, Kaz Hirai has made a mighty big promise. With PS3 hardware sales a little saggy, he has sworn a blood oath that there will be 380 PlayStation 3 games available by next March. More games, more sales, the thinking goes.
Of the 380, 200 will be boxed, retail titles with the remaining 180 to be downloadable.
March 2008 is nine months away. That means, not counting what is already out, there needs to be a pinch over 40 PS3 games a month between now and then. Which is around ten per week. Which is a lot of games. The Reuters piece isn't exactly clear, and we think Kaz meant that those game releases date back to the start of the fiscal year. Like we said, kinda unclear!
Still, Kaz, good luck with this. Really!
Sony to boost PS3 software to reverse slump: Nikkei [Reuters]
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Isn't Nintendo the Empire again?
Bwahahahahahaha....huh huh huh *gasp*
hahahahahahaha.
Yeah. Okay.
"That means there needs to be a pinch over 40 PS3 games a month between now and then. Which is around ten per week. Which is a lot of games."
Who the hell does the math at Kotaku? LOL
its 4 and an half games per month, not 10..... -_-
Well, the report says they claimed 380 "software titles" of which 200 would be packaged. Not "games."
The same report claims there are 60 currently-available software packaged software titles and 50 downloadable "software titles."
Now, we all know that there aren't 50 downloadable games on PS3, and there aren't 60 packaged games. This leads me to believe this ridiculous statement is talking about one of two things:
1. Adding all SKUs together. Europe Motorstorm and Japan Motorstorm and North America Motorstorm are three separate "software titles."
2. They're also counting blu-ray movies as packaged "software" and downloadable videos and demos as downloadable "software."
Either of those two approaches seems like it would give you roughly 60 packaged titles and 50 downloadable titles currently, and could give you another 380 my March of next year. And either way, it doesn't get Sony out of the hole they're in.
5-6 a week i mean.
lol no way they can do this. it's one thing to be optimistic, but it's another to tell a straight out lie - this is a lie.
380 games in 9 months? please. even if half of them are online...can anyone seriously believe this?
@TheRebellion:
Uhh.......Dude? It's June. To the end of the year is 6 more months. Plus the three to get to March. That's nine months.
380 divided by 9 is 42.2(repeating).
True, But i still think 5-6 games a week. can do it.
@TheRebellion:
6 games a week for four weeks a month for nine months is 216 games! Use math!
let's do some math here, subtract all the sports game "updates", the countless EA game ports, and the (insert pixar or shrek) based games, how many of these games are going to be new exclusive original content? On top of that, are they all going to be decent? It's not about how many games you have, it's about how many exclusive killer app games you have.
Oh, and he better not be counting games multiple versions of the same game.
I remember seeing a list a while back boasting about the size of the PS2's library and half of it was the Japanese version of the same game. Granted, the PS2's library IS huge, but this better not be how they account for their 380 games.
I wouldn't put it past Sony though.
How about they just lower the price of the console and give us 3-8 QUALITY titles to play?
As exciting as this sounds, I can't help but think of the ol' "quality not quantity" adage.
yea but they can put 2 games in 1 game box kinda like what half life 2 is doing. they have 4-5 games in 1 game box.
Perhaps it was mistranslated and instead of "380 more games" he really meant "more 360 games".
*zing!*
This comment section totally destroys the theory that nerds are good at math.
Can I nominate TheRebellion for the Multitap comments? Because that shit is hilarious.
Overpromised/Underdelivered
Or How I learned to stop playing and love the PS3.
Sorry, couldn't resist as this sembles another typical Sony empty promise. Unless there is some vast amount of unsupported PS2 set of titles that are about to go BC, I find the claim ludicrous...
Of course if they really want to scare Microsoft, they can announce an emulator that runs XBOX titles with a better rate of compatibility than the 360 does...
Hmmm
42.2 games a month?
Sony will be lucky to get 15-20 out a month.
That's alot of shitty games.
This post DEMANDS the "Riiiiiiiiiidge Raaaacer" tag...
@TheRebellion:
"yea but they can put 2 games in 1 game box kinda like what half life 2 is doing. they have 4-5 games in 1 game box."
Where's is my Zapper gun!?
@Judgment:
D: I used a calculator.
@GamerMike:
What do you figure, Fantavision Redux, Fantavision 2, Fantavision 3, Fantavision 4, ................, Fantavision 379, and Fantavision 380?
i smell more bullshit from Sony
I think Sony will do the funny math of counting a Japanese and a US game as "separate" as another poster implied. For 100 US boxed titles that's 11 US games a month, or a little more than 2 a week. I could see an average of 2 games a week for the next 9 months.
So, show of hands - who actually thinks that Sony can make this claim come true?
Rumor has it Kaz Hirai spews diarrhea from his mouth. Kotaku has just proved it.
As usual, Sont talks crap.
Sad...
Kaz,
hurry the fuck up
with those games
please.
Is there some kind of conversion ratio we're missing between metric and standard counting? Like 380 games in Japan would equal 95 titles over here?
holy fuck, not that i doubt sony in the slightest but.
this is some overwhelming news, if sony can pull this off then no doubt it will be of epic proportions.
Many games have been in development for quite a while even before the system launch and during the drought so it makes sense. I'm sure you'll see what I mean at E3 in a few weeks.
@Stratovarius: You stole the laugh right out of my throat.
In case anyone is wondering, that's an average of one-and-a-half games per day.
Even I, a self proclaimed Sony fan, find this boast difficult to believe.
LMAO - they have absolutely no chance, especially as the period between xmas and March is traditionally a barren period when it comes to game releases.
Seriously when has a games console every seen 5-6 releases a week for any sustained period of time - even the manic christmas period isnt that busy. Even if what feasible, the game companies wouldnt want their own games to be competing with each other.
Also Kaz, its about quality not quantity.
They'll put out half that many by February, then rerelease every single one as a $20 greatest hits game. No problem.
This is good news. Sony is once again focusing on the vital parts of the video game industry: games.
yeah i have no idea how they're gonna do this... unless they suddleny start selling PSX games through the network and count that as games.
GOOD GOD, something shut those Sony execs up. I doubt they have any more bullets to shoot in their feet at those point. But its pretty entertaining, like watching crash test footage, so I hope they can surprise me.
maybe is 38 and not 380, cause a PS3 cost like 20-25 milllion so multiply that for 380, 7600 millions, well thats a lot of cash, i think the translation was not right...
ROFLMAOLOLHAHAHAHAHALMBOLOLOLHAHAHAHAROFL
The saddest part is even if they did get 380 games out for the PS3, the sales that the 360 makes on GTA, Halo 3, Mass Effect, Assassins Creed, and (insert other game here such as something like Splinter Cell or Kane and Lynch) will probably outsell (or get really close) all 380 of those games combined.
Just Sad.
I guess 360 fanboys can no longer complain about the PS3 not having any games....
How many Sing Star HD games could they bring out? you know they'll be struggling when Mr Roboto is one of the featured songs.
ROFLMAOLOLHAHAHAHAHALMBOLOLOLHAHAHAHAROFL
The saddest part is even if they did get 380 games out for the PS3, the sales that the 360 makes on GTA, Halo 3, Mass Effect, Assassins Creed, and (insert other game here such as something like Splinter Cell or Kane and Lynch) will probably outsell (or get really close) all 380 of those games combined.
Just Sad.
I guess 360 fanboys can no longer complain about the PS3 not having any games....
Sorry it this is a repeat, it freaked out on me....
hahaha, yeah right. when will the idiots at Sony learn to just keep their mouths shut. Have they EVER delivered on a 'promise' ?
unfeasible, but who knows, they might've had 380 games in development for the past several years. if he says so, might as well just take his words for it, not that it's gonna hurt, he'll be the one in trouble if it's not true.
ROFLMAOLOLHAHAHAHAHALMBOLOLOLHAHAHAHAROFL
The saddest part is even if they did get 380 games out for the PS3, the sales that the 360 makes on GTA, Halo 3, Mass Effect, Assassins Creed, and (insert other game here such as something like Splinter Cell or Kane and Lynch) will probably outsell (or get really close) all 380 of those games combined.
Just Sad.
I guess 360 fanboys can no longer complain about the PS3 not having any games....
Sorry it this is another repeat, it is still freaking out on me....
ROFLMAOLOLHAHAHAHAHALMBOLOLOLHAHAHAHAROFL
200 games in 9 months, its too much, 20 is already a lot, i say 10 that included FF and MGS...
That's...a lot of games. Even if you assume that they're counting Japan-only versions of EVERY game, that's still 5 games a week. Every week. For 9 months. Even if you assume an aggregate, that's a fairly tall order.
It's a business meeting, not a gamers meeting. They are counting individual SKUs for each country I'll bet. That means when Pain gets release in NA and Europe and Japan and Australia, thats 4 SKUs, 4 titles in that list of 380. From a gaming stand point it sucks, from a business stand point it's regular business speak to appease stock holders.
Can we give the gaming community lessons in stockholder PR?
Oh Mr Hirai, you're so crazy! All the games in the world doesn't matter if a large part of the gaming populace can't afford the initial fee to get started in the first place.