[PS3] Playstation 3 games costing between $59 and $99?

I think it's premature to get overly excited about this. It's not like he said "games will cost over $59.99" though everyone seems to be acting like that is what he said.

Wait until games actually start coming out and we get some prices. It's silly to do otherwise. But for the record, I wouldn't be happy with PS3 games costing over $60. But I'll wait until some actual PS3 games are priced over that amount before I start complaining.

How ya doing, buddy?

Considering companies like NIS, Cave, Treasure and many other extremely small developers are already making PS3 games I really don't think development costs are as big as an issue as they are made out to be.

Look at the company history of the Theseis developers. The actually don't even have a company history. This sort of thing is so common that normally it isn't even news worth. But digging up any amount of insignificant information on the PS3 and typing up a half assed article is what sites like Joystiq love to do these days.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

It has never been easy to jump into the console industry and it never will be. You can't just decide to develop a game, have no publishing contracts and have no method to get your game licensed. Young companies must be picked up by a larger publisher in the console industry if they want to make a game. This goes for ANY console, be it the PS2, PS3, Gamecube, Wii, Xbox, whatever.

I'm willing to bet these guys simply could not pitch their game idea well enough for a PS3 publisher to pick up the game. More than likely this is due from the game or concept being pure shit. This is something to remember, while young developers might bring in fresh ideas once and a while, they also tend to bring in pure crap more often than not. And if this is the case, you can bet they aren't going to give this as the reason they aren't making their game for the PS3.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by BZ

Doesn't every company ship dev kits to all developers. You know to get a feel for the system to see and hopefully develop for it in the future. Doesn't mean that they WILL develop for it. Am I wrong.

Not that it matters. PS3 heh.

Not really. They have to order them and buy them from Sony. And with PS3 dev kits costing around $10,000 I really doubt Sony is shipping them out for developers to play around with. They went out so developers interested can make games.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

All games for the PS3 have already been set at $50-$60. Retailers already got the word from Sony and you can see that PS3 game pre-orders from any store reflect this.

I was speaking idiomatically.