Wed, Oct 29, 2008 | 07:30 GMT
SCEE makes PS2 open platform in Europe
According to this GameDaily piece, Sony Europe developer relations manager George Bain has told a conference of Eastern European developers that game-makers will no longer have to submit content for approval on PS2, effectively making the machine an open platform.
Bain noted that Russian and Indian developers can “create low-development cost titles and release them in their market” as one of the positive effects of this decision.
Thanks, 1UP.
8 comments
#1
Blerk
29/10/08, 8:18 am
They should’ve done this two years ago!
#2
Shatner
29/10/08, 8:22 am
Why?
#3
trav
29/10/08, 8:53 am
About time
#4
Esha
29/10/08, 9:55 am
I’m with Shatner on this one, is there a rationale behind saying that this should’ve been done [arbitrary number of] years ago?
The fact that they’ve done it at all is incredible. Have any of their competitors done this with their older machines?
#5
Blerk
29/10/08, 10:03 am
Why? Because people still cared about the PS2 back then. It’d have been nice to have had some cheap and cheerful ports of weirder Japanese stuff without having to go through the whole Sony certification “oh no, you must dub the audio, it’s got 2D graphics we can’t have that, we insist on a 50hz mode” rubbish.
#6
JPickford
29/10/08, 10:41 am
Maybe they need the PS2 to carry on selling well.
#7
Quiiick
29/10/08, 10:49 am
@ JPickford
It’s not a question of “need” … it’s just an opportunity. Why not take it?
+ it’s an interesting PR move.
#8
JPickford
29/10/08, 11:27 am
Why isn’t it a question of need?
What’s also interesting about this is that concept approval was illegal in Europe anyway. Apparently (I’ve just discovered) that this only applies to the market leader. So now Sony are no longer the market leader they are dropping something they weren’t (legally) allowed to do when they were.