GameSpot: Titles for Sony’s next-gen console have to shift half a million copies before developers start to make money, says Takeo Takasu.

That is NOT good news at all. I may have opted for the Wii in favor of costs and all, but I’d have hoped the PS3 would fare a little better than this. For a franchise to sell five hundred thousand copies requires a popular reputation, such as Metal Gear, Final Fantasy, Ace Combat, Armored Core, and so on. But those are coming from the big companies (Konami, Capcom, Namco, From Software). Just about everyone else is going to lose out and I’m disappointed that this sort of thing has to happen. This is also the reason why some PS3 exclusives have ended up on the 360, due to problems such as not having enough PS3s on the market when the Xbox 360 is in the lead with the Wii coming in at a close second.

The High Definition area of gaming is only going to be for insanely rich people, and there’s not a whole lot of those out there. That’s going to hurt.

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