The Future Of PSN
So what comes next for PSN? Hight said Sony will release more games on PSN this year than last. And much of the output from America, at least, will be original. Were not going to repeat ourselves, he said. You wont see sequels. The PSN has had some larger games, including Warhawk last year and the Gran Turismo 5 Prologue, which was released in Japan in December and is coming to the U.S. later this spring. Were doing more content, so more experimental [games], Hight said, But on balance you will see some somewhat bigger budget titles come in. He said hed been leery of signing large games when the PS3 launched, but now that background downloading is enabled on the PS3, that self-imposed restriction is off. The biggest thing Ive got going now is about 2 Gig, he said. Thats 2.5 times the size of Warhawk, and more in the ballpark of GT5 Prologue. Development priorities also include cooperative multiplayer games. We tend to emphasize cooperative play over competitive, Hight said. Its not a must-have, but we feel the competitive universe is mostly covered.
At GDC this year, Sonys PSN team will certainly be on the lookout for new games for the service. Theyre looking for the unexpected. People tell me: Tell us what you want, Hight told me. And I said at last GDC, If I tell you what I want then Im not going to get what I need.
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