Phil Harrison on the current and future state of PS3 games

Phil Harrison warned consumers that you shouldn’t judge a console based solely on its launch titles. And he should know: he’s the corporate executive and representative director of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) and Executive Vice President of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE).

While some have said that the PlayStation 3 lacks launch titles demonstrating its superior technology over its competitors, Harrison cited Resistance: Fall of Man and MotorStorm as a counterexample to these claims. He then went on to mention the success of the PlayStation 1 and PlayStation 2 and their launch line-ups.

Here’s what he told Game Informer:

Now, it’s always dangerous to judge any system by its launch lineup… You only have to go back to the games that launched Playstation 1 and Playstation 2.

If you took those few dozen titles and analysed them, you would never have imagined that either of those formats would have on to sell over 100 million units each.

Looking to the future, Harrison, has very high hopes for first and third party games on their platform. He noted that he is always concerned that consumers can “purchase the best games and get the best game experiences to validate their system purchase.” In addition to this, he also believes that the investments that Sony has made on a global scale will provide consumers with what they’re looking for.

As long as the games they get are great, [consumers] don’t care if they are third-party or first-party… What I do believe is that the investments we have made in Worldwide Studios globally – US, Europe, and Japan – will yield the best quality software and the highest quality experiences that are clearly going to be exclusive to the platform.

We have a larger platform-dedicated development resource than our competitors combined. So all of that goes towards the fact that the best games with the best technology are coming exclusively to [Sony] platforms.

Those are pretty strong words coming from a man who really believes in both his company and its products. A question has come up from his statements though, will all the money Sony has invested be enough to establish the PS3 as the most dominant console in its generation? We’ll have to give it a year or two before we can say anything final on that.

Phil Harrison warned consumers that you shouldn’t judge a console based solely on its launch titles. And he should know: he’s the corporate executive and representative director of Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCEI) and Executive Vice President of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE).

While some have said that the PlayStation 3 lacks launch titles demonstrating its superior technology over its competitors, Harrison cited Resistance: Fall of Man and MotorStorm as a counterexample to these claims. He then went on to mention the success of the PlayStation 1 and PlayStation 2 and their launch line-ups.

Here’s what he told Game Informer:

Now, it’s always dangerous to judge any system by its launch lineup… You only have to go back to the games that launched Playstation 1 and Playstation 2.

If you took those few dozen titles and analysed them, you would never have imagined that either of those formats would have on to sell over 100 million units each.

Looking to the future, Harrison, has very high hopes for first and third party games on their platform. He noted that he is always concerned that consumers can “purchase the best games and get the best game experiences to validate their system purchase.” In addition to this, he also believes that the investments that Sony has made on a global scale will provide consumers with what they’re looking for.

As long as the games they get are great, [consumers] don’t care if they are third-party or first-party… What I do believe is that the investments we have made in Worldwide Studios globally – US, Europe, and Japan – will yield the best quality software and the highest quality experiences that are clearly going to be exclusive to the platform.

We have a larger platform-dedicated development resource than our competitors combined. So all of that goes towards the fact that the best games with the best technology are coming exclusively to [Sony] platforms.

Those are pretty strong words coming from a man who really believes in both his company and its products. A question has come up from his statements though, will all the money Sony has invested be enough to establish the PS3 as the most dominant console in its generation? We’ll have to give it a year or two before we can say anything final on that.