Peter Molyneux: PS3 Still Need Defining Title
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September 21st, 2008
When someone is asked to associate a game title with the Xbox 360, chances are they’d say Halo 3. With the Wii, the game is WiiSports. What does the PlayStation 3 have though? Many would either say Metal Gear Solid 4, or Little Big Planet. If you ask the question to Peter Molyneux, however, you’ll get an entirely different answer all together. During an interview, Molyneux was questioned about whether he thought his next title, Fable 2, could spur Xbox 360 sales in Japan. Part way through his answer, he mentioned “defining titles” and how he thought that the PS3 was still waiting for a title of it’s own.
“I think the PlayStation 3 is still waiting for that definition title that represents the platform – and I think that’s what hardware manufacturers need to do, find that defining title. Nintendo did a brilliant job of doing that at launch with games like Wii Sports and Wii Play – maybe Fable 2 is a defining title. But you are talking to the proud father of this game, so you can’t ask me to be tremendously objective.”
With both Little Big Planet and Metal Gear Solid 4 being PlayStation 3 exclusive, and considering that MGS 4 can only be stored, uncompressed, on a Bluray disk, I’m not sure how more definitive Molyneux is expecting.
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