Teasing aside, the PlayStation Network has been a hotbed of amazing exclusive titles, from Q-Games’ PixelJunk series and Thatgamecompany’s Flow and Flower. Sony has accomplished its mission of delivering unique games to PlayStation 3 owners, and now it just wants to keep up the trend.
To that end SCEA has invested $US20 million towards the development of new PSN games over the next three years. The money will go towards its first-party studios, as well as financing via the Pub Fund program, which provides development monies towards independent game development, as it did with Doublesix’s Burn Zombie Burn.
“PlayStation Network is poised to deliver an enviable line-up of exclusive and imaginative games this year, with highly anticipated first-party titles like thatgamecompany’s Journey and PixelJunk Sidescroller,” said Brandon Stander, director of PlayStation Network marketing, SCEA. “We’re doubling down on PlayStation Network software, and under this additional investment over the next three years, we anticipate a steady flow of high-quality titles that can’t be found anywhere else.”
Games being produced under this new initiative include the ambient bio-mechanical space exploration game Eufloria, action-puzzler Okabu, crime simulator Payday: The Heist, and colourful puzzle platformer Papo & Yo.
DansDans
Thursday, July 14, 2011 at 8:05 AMAll well and good, and exciting, but they need to hit the AU store cheaper than $19.95 per game
Dark_Templar
Thursday, July 14, 2011 at 8:55 AMHow about they throw some money around to get us Shadow Complex.
Also, dont treat Aussies like second class citizens when it comes to content releases, not to mention how much better the US PS Store interface is compared to the absolute crapfest of the Aussie one (whats that? K have to go through ONE BILLION screens to find the game I want to download).
Matty
Thursday, July 14, 2011 at 11:44 AMOr even PAL released games like – Legends of War: Patton’s Campaign on the PSP – Which I want
Aaron
Thursday, July 14, 2011 at 2:06 PMThat might be asking too much. We’re a classic but big small enough to overcharge and ignore nation.
Braaains
Thursday, July 14, 2011 at 10:29 AMIf they’re smart then they’ll acquire thatgamecompany. Or at the very least spend a fair chunk of this money on extended their exclusive deal with them.
Zico
Thursday, July 14, 2011 at 11:00 AMRez on ps3. Someone somehow make it happen