PS3 Spring launch games?

[nelg]

What where the games that were supposed to be launched with the PS3 when the launch time was this spring? Were any of them shown at the GDC? Are they wrapping up development and now moving on to the next projects or will they use this time (delay) to further polish the games?

 

[London Geezer]

What where the games that were supposed to be launched with the PS3 when the launch time was this spring? Were any of them shown at the GDC? Are they wrapping up development and now moving on to the next projects or will they use this time (delay) to further polish the games?

Uhm... My answer, and this is just an opinion, is that... there never was a spring launch... there are no games ready for spring...

 

[drpepper]

Uhm... My answer, and this is just an opinion, is that... there never was a spring launch... there are no games ready for spring...

Probably another reason to delay the launch to early winter/late fall. I can't even think of any ports that could have been made at such timely fashion.

 

[Titanio]

Hard to tell when most of the games shown at GDC were Western, and they were aiming for late 06 to start with. It'd be more interesting to see where Japanese development was in the Spring - for example, Sega had that golf game which they claimed was ready to go, pretty much.

 

[Qroach]

There wasn't anything ready for spring. Japan or otherwise. It's simple.

 

[heliosphere]

We've been targeting a November launch (in North America) pretty much since development started, not because of what we'd been officially told by Sony but because it was obvious from the state of what we had to work with that the spring launch was never going to happen.

 

[nelg]

We've been targeting a November launch (in North America) pretty much since development started, not because of what we'd been officially told by Sony but because it was obvious from the state of what we had to work with that the spring launch was never going to happen.

Without asking you to violate any NDAs, would you say that the situation was the same with the other developers as well?

 

[heliosphere]

Without asking you to violate any NDAs, would you say that the situation was the same with the other developers as well?

Have to be a bit careful what I say here but yeah, I'd be very surprised if any North American developers seriously thought a spring launch was going to happen beyond August / September last year.

 

[nelg]

Have to be a bit careful what I say here but yeah, I'd be very surprised if any North American developers seriously thought a spring launch was going to happen beyond August / September last year.

Interesting. Thanks for the info. Could the delay also be related to the power supply issue?

 

[heliosphere]

Ha, I hadn't seen that link. Small, cool and quiet are not adjectives you're likely to hear associated with the PS3 dev kits it's true. That was true with the 360 for a long time as well though - if you think the power brick is big on the retail boxes you should see the ones on the dev kits.

 

[mckmas8808]

Uhm... My answer, and this is just an opinion, is that... there never was a spring launch... there are no games ready for spring...

I support this statement.

 

[mckmas8808]

We've been targeting a November launch (in North America) pretty much since development started, not because of what we'd been officially told by Sony but because it was obvious from the state of what we had to work with that the spring launch was never going to happen.

Okay since we now know that you are a PS3 dev, why do you still believe that PS3 launch games will look worst than Xbox 360 launch games? I hate to push this off-topic, but the game you or your friends are working on are starting to scare me graphically.

 

[Qroach]

Okay since we now know that you are a PS3 dev, why do you still believe that PS3 launch games will look worst than Xbox 360 launch games? I hate to push this off-topic, but the game you or your friends are working on are starting to scare me graphically.

where did he say or imply that in this thread? try staying on topic please mckmas8808. there's no need to bring up dicussions from locked threads.