Honestly, I'm incredibly disappointed. Phil Harrison failed me in a big way. The first party titles were supposed to rush in and saturate the market in gaming goodness. That's literally Phil Harrison's obligation. He screwed up with Motorstorm, Genji, Warhawk, and Heavenly Sword.
Although Lair isn't under his jurisdiction, it's failure is well noted by people skeptical of the Playstation 3. Literally, Phil Harrison's failure notes a seriously marked drop in interest in the Playstation 3.
In reality, I'm expecting the only decent first party titles coming out of Sony studios to be from the top tier, such as Corey Barlog, Insomniac, Sucker Punch, Media Molecule, and Naughty Dog. Guerilla is a possibility, but it's primarily based on how much they've changed.
I'm extremely upset to learn how short all of these games are and how light they are on gameplay, regardless of their absolutely movie-busting production values. Heavenly Sword's got it in spades, but what the hell, where did the gameplay go? I'm just mind-numbingly irritated right now.
Then again, if Warhawk scores 8.5 or above, I'll restore some semblance of faith in these folks. Echochrome looks fantastic but it's not what people are looking for on PS3 (superb downloadable titles are a plus, and even bad ones aren't a minus...but little spruced up PC casual games with high particle counts and enhanced physics don't sell consoles).
The only game that I can say I have an extreme amount of faith in, knowing the developers and having played Resistance: Fall of Man, is Ratchet and Clank Future: ToD.
We'll see how it goes, but TC speaks the truth. Far too much floppage, far too much insanity as far as region-locked price drops.
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