You can watch the David Jaffe interview from 1up.com below and it makes for very interesting and entertaining viewing! A lot of good points were made so check it out. It’s well worth 20 mins of your time and no punches were pulled. Maybe he should do all of Sony’s talking for them in the future but first God of War 3 for the PS3 please!

David Jaffe Video Interview

Calling All Cars

Coming in March. Designed by David Jaffe of God of War fame, this downloadable title is highly anticipated.

Swizzleblock

Coming in February. Probably not the final name, but part of the Go! Puzzle series.

flOw

Coming in late February. Eat other organisms and grow your creature.

Also, Midway’s classic compilation with Gauntlet 2, Joust, Rampart, Rampage World Tour, Championship Sprint, and Mortal Kombat II, will be staggered for release starting in March. Offline and online multiplayer will be supported.

I’m definitely glad to see more original downloadable games coming soon. So far, Lemmings is my favorite: an excellent hi-def remake of a classic. Blast Factor is a fun game as well.

Which games are your favorites?

Chubigan’s Blog on the Topic.

It’s amazing to think a game like Resistance Fall of Man is only using 20-25% of the PS3’s full potential. Imagine what games will be like in a couple years. I think we will really start to see the PS3’s power in late 2007, early 2008.

Here is a quote that Sony CEO Howard Stringer stated in a CNET interview.

Lost in the shuffle is the fact that the current games that are out there are only using about 20 percent to 25 percent of the [PS3’s] bandwidth. Once the publishers’ excitement reaches a level of intensity that they start using more of the bandwidth, that will create additional excitement.

As a comparison look how far PS2 games has come since it’s launch.

Tekken Tag - Oct 25, 2000	Tekken 5 - Feb 24, 2005
Unreal Tournament - Oct 21, 2000	Black - Feb 28, 2006

Newsmaker: Sony’s brave Sir Howard

It’s “April”.

In an interview with CNET today, Sony CEO Sir Howard Stringer got asked what goals Sony was seeking to achieve within the next year. He responded:

I think it’s 6 million units by the end of the quarter, worldwide. And then we have got the European launch in April, which is very important to us. I think we have 20 games out there. I assume we’re going to increase the number of games.

Lost in the shuffle is the fact that the current games that are out there are only using about 20 percent to 25 percent of the bandwidth. Once the publishers’ excitement reaches a level of intensity that they start using more of the bandwidth, that will create additional excitement.

Secondly, there now are 1 million Blu-ray players in the market, and each of those in the United States has a Blu-ray disc because we put Talladega Nights inside.

Of course Stringer’s comments are open to some interpretation as he makes a few obvious errors (games consoles don’t have “bandwidth” and Sony only gave out Talladega Nights with the first 500,000 PS3s), but for the main part if one guy is going to know when Europe will recieve the PlayStation 3, it’s him. Stringer also restates that Sony expects the PlayStation 3 to break-even at the end of 2007. Fingers crossed this will mean a price cut will on the cards in the not too distant future.

This (further) delay is really disappointing. Whilst I was becoming resigned to the fact I won’t be able to afford a PlayStation 3 for a good few months, I know a lot of people who will be extremely annoyed. Still it isn’t a complete screw up if the console launches within the first week of April. Here’s hoping, we should now by next Friday at the latest.

CNET- Sony’s brave Sir Howard

UPDATE: SCEE have gone on the record saying that they still stand beside the March date, taking Stringer’s comments as “incorrect”. Furthermore, threespeech indicates again that the date will be 23rd March, and reveals that the prices will stick at £425/€599/€629(Ireland). Hmmmm… I wish Sony would just get on and say.