What happens when Madden football is available for every platform, and they all came in today?
TRETTON: We tell our third-party developers that…there had be some very distinct reasons to sell a PS2, PSP, and PS3 game. GP: When does PS3 “kick in” in terms of what’s possible with that platform? When does it start to exert its muscle? As it is now, many of the games are similar to their Xbox 360 versions. TRETTON: That’s why we made such an investment in our worldwide studios. We have to carry the flag and show consumers and developers what can be done on the PS3. I think Resistance: Fall of Man delivers on that technology, and I think MotorStorm will too. When you’re talking about the launch window, it’s all about just getting product on the shelf and being one of the launch titles. As a launch-window developer, if there’s an existing technology, [you’ll find yourself using that for efficiency]. We suffered from that even internally on PS2, where the first PS2 games we shipped were based on PS1 engines. The games that came to the forefront were from developers who invested in th
