Shuhei Yoshida has admitted in an interview with Famitsu magazine that Sony has 5 RPGs in first party development. VGTilt has a rough translation of the interview on their website and quotes Yoshida as saying that Sony are "also working with 3rd party to ensure we have those kinds of games coming in from their studios as well."
This will provide welcome news for an RPG starved Playstation fan in Japan. With White Knight Chronicles, a third party development, kicking off on Christmas Day, could the RPG glut fans have waited for be arriving in 2009?
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It turns out that many moons ago, Microsoft once had its eye on the Sony published LittleBigPlanet series.
Microsoft in a nutshell. Always tried to poach Sony employees, games, 3rd party games and devices like the depth camera that was turned into Kinect but was running on PS2 before Xbox 360. Wouldn't be surprised they wanted LBP. Just like they worked behind the scenes pushing the MLB to bring Sony's baseball game to Xbox instead of making their own.
https://www.playstationlife...
They didn't spend years trying to develop their own baseball game. They wanted Sony's game.
They're scum.
"However, Healey said Media Molecule wouldn't have felt right doing that, adding it would have been "morally corrupt"."
Major kudos to Media Molecule for being an upright studio with principles.
Great, more stories like this please. Show the last of the zombies holding the line what we've been saying for years: Microsoft is anti competition, anti industry and has no interest in making games at all.
But hey, at least there's an Xbox Games Showcase to look forward to, right?
Well considering SONY just killed the series, LBP would've been dead by now either way. Though MM probably wouldn't exist by now either, so I'm glad they stayed with SONY, hopefully they don't get shut down any time soon or ever honestly.
I like the use of the word "admitted", as if it's some kind of crime for Sony to use their first party studios! :P
Legend of Dragoon 2 and a new Wild ARMs please.
PlayStation 3 will once again reign supreme as the RPG King. Passing the crown from PlayStation 2 onto PlayStation 3, consumers will realize that only PlayStation 3 offers them AAA RPGs not found on any other console.
I would like to thank our studios hard at work at bringing the best RPGs this generation into consumer households that's only possible on PlayStation 3. RPG enthusiasts alike will be rushing out the stores to buy our console when they hear this fantastic news.
PlayStation 3, The Return of the RPG King.
well we know the internal one coming from them is WKC which is second party, and we know that 2 exclusives are being made, one from Squareenix with FF:VS13, and the from FROM SOFTWARE with Demon's Sou,
so i'll be glad to see if Sony reached out to Konami and paid the cash to have them penny up a next gen exclusive Suikoden 6, I'm curious to see what are the 4-5 other 1st party RPGs that are in dev for the PS3. because it's been 2 years and the only rPGs that have hit the system is
weak low grade western RPGs. and some one left to be desired JRPG, that came in the form of Enchanted Arms... WKC should be the first and best rated RPG to come out in a while and should prove to be the first true next gen RPG, With Level-5 behind it, I'm sure it will be good.
Legend of Dragoon 2, revealed at or before E3 2009.
Wild Arms PS3
Dark Cloud 3
Unearthed.