Codemasters Backs Sony's 10 Year PS3 Plan

So if you're a PlayStation 3 owner it probably means that you are a high roller because you had the money to purchase the console. If not the former, then chances are you're probably really broke, because of the high price tag and your lack of funds to purchase one. Either way, you probably want some reassurance that your decision will be one made with much guarantee instead of regret.

Before the launch Sony has been bragging that the PlayStation 3 is not for the short run, but for the long run ahead. Ten years to be exact, which means that while the PS4 is new to the scene, the PS3 will still be strong just like the PS2 currently is.

Rod Cousens, CEO of Codemasters explains, "I really do think it's going to be a ten-year cycle and I do think that's something that's been overlooked when people are fairly dismissive of certain hardware platforms,"

Cousens also believes that it will be the PS3, not the Wii or Xbox 360 that will be the major forerunner this generation, "I certainly think it's premature to dismiss Sony because I believe that they're only now showing signs of ramping up and that shouldn't come as any surprise to people given the trail of to be released dates of Wii and 360 and given the price points that they were coming in at, and given the lack of software supporting the format. I believe all those ingredients are starting to merge and I would expect Sony to have real momentum over the coming years."

Closing it out, he details how the PS3 will be a major role player in Japan and interesting enough, Eastern Europe:

"I also believe you have to look at it on a global basis and not be territorial. If you look at it on a global basis then you would expect Sony to certainly pick up in the Japanese market.

"You only have to look at their performance in Russia over the last twelve months where there's very little distribution for competing consoles, and in some of the Eastern Bloc countries to know that they will almost certainly prevail in those marketplaces."

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Laughable, ps2 had something the ps3 doesn't..........sales.yoshi-lnex

[QUOTE="yoshi-lnex"]Laughable, ps2 had something the ps3 doesn't..........sales.Dark-KnTght

[QUOTE="Dark-KnTght"][QUOTE="yoshi-lnex"]Laughable, ps2 had something the ps3 doesn't..........sales.yoshi-lnex

[QUOTE="yoshi-lnex"][QUOTE="Dark-KnTght"][QUOTE="yoshi-lnex"]Laughable, ps2 had something the ps3 doesn't..........sales.Dark-KnTght

Intresting approch to debating, but normally comments like that come AFTER you've putten up a debate.

If only Codemasters was a big-time developer or publisher... anyways you kind of made your post a joke by talking about the Easter European market which is insignificant in the grand scheme of things. Also look at your last quote.... it says that PS3 is leading in Russia because the competing consoles are not distributed there... which means that it kind of wins by default... which means nothing. There is nothing going on to suggest the PS3 will come out on top and your post, which if it werent for your history would be subject to accusations of fakeboy-ism, does nothing to change things.hazuki87

I bet many other third party developers feel the same as Codemasters that's why you don't see anyone dropping support for PS3.

[QUOTE="Dark-KnTght"][QUOTE="yoshi-lnex"][QUOTE="Dark-KnTght"][QUOTE="yoshi-lnex"]Laughable, ps2 had something the ps3 doesn't..........sales.kittykatz5k

Intresting approch to debating, but normally comments like that come AFTER you've putten up a debate.

Laughable, ps2 had something the ps3 doesn't..........sales.yoshi-lnex

dont forget games also.

obviously the ps2 was better, But lets act stupid. and not take in to account the pricing of the ps3 verus competitors,xbox 360 launching first and expenses of deveoloping for ps3. Ps3 definatelyh has it harder than ps2. No final fantasy yet. :(

[QUOTE="kittykatz5k"]

[QUOTE="Dark-KnTght"][QUOTE="yoshi-lnex"][QUOTE="Dark-KnTght"][QUOTE="yoshi-lnex"]Laughable, ps2 had something the ps3 doesn't..........sales.Dark-KnTght

Intresting approch to debating, but normally comments like that come AFTER you've putten up a debate.

[quote="you"Nah I don't need to. Not with the recent unfolding of events.

It's still not selling like the PS2 though ;)

The PS2 has been out for how many years again? And no the console at this moment is not what it used to be at all. Its still a couple of years before the PS2 achieves that status, and here we are talking about how Sony plans to put what may actually turn out to be their console with less market share in any gen in their existence. Giving us assurance that it will last more than its predecessors.

Am I trully making a rot decision, by taking such claims with a grain of salt? Quite frankly after a lot of claims from Sony this gen, I have definitely learned to take it as such, even if in the end they manage to surprise me if not amaze me.

when sony supports there systems with 1st party support, and 3rd party support for that matter over the next released one then it lasts 10 years.

Ps2's first party support stopped after what? its 3rd party support has been slowing for a long time, sony has never had a 10 year cycle they've only supported there system with production and support so as to leech every last dollar out of it, if there system didn't preform good they would drop it just as faster as any other company would.

I only see one "possible" thorn in this idea. For this entire generation, most games by 3rd party are going to be multiplat. However, I doubt the 360 will stay in for 10 years, plus it is alreayd a year+ ahead in its lifespan. The big question is what will 3rd party developers do in 4-6 years, and not 10, since they won't be able to make "all" titles multiplat.

For PS3's support it is going to depend heavily on software sales (not hardware), ease of development (Sony still needs to improve those tools but experience will help the developers by then), and finally cost of making a game vs the new system (PS3 takes a ton of man hours to make a game, which is why the avg PS3 game is $15 million in development costs).

There are a lot of factors going against the 3(Wii, price, latest launch) this generation so it will be interesting to see how Sony adapts and if 3rd parties adapt with them.

You left out the fact that he also said:

"You also have to look at the technology and understand that the Wii is essentially Gamecube 1.5, and so given that it's Gamecube 1.5 it's not unreasonable to assume that in the timeframes that I've alluded to earlier that you would have a Wii 2 within a relatively short period of time."

In contrast the PS3 is built to go the distance in its present form, and the Xbox 360, "because its core is in a PC, can also be upgraded significantly over the coming years".

So he's not dismissing the 360.

So if you're a PlayStation 3 owner it probably means that you are a high roller because you had the money to purchase the console. If not the former, then chances are you're probably really broke, because of the high price tag and your lack of funds to purchase one. Either way, you probably want some reassurance that your decision will be one made with much guarantee instead of regret.

-Renegade

Yeah, patronize those readers, WHOO! :roll:

Has anyone tried to go to the source interview? I think the link is broken because the interview it links too barely talks about the PS3, its all about Codemasters.