Eidos want 8 million gamers before they unleash the big titles
Eidos will be holding back their major PS3 titles until the console reaches a stage where it's installed into 8 million or more homes. Speaking to MCV, Eidos chief financial officer Rob Murphy believes that the figure will be achieved by April next year and only then will they unleash their big products.
“We have absolutely no doubt that PS3 will be a very successful platform and we’re completely behind it,” Murphy told the website. “Ideally, we would like to have a market that is a worldwide installed base of eight to ten million PS3 units by the time we bring out our big products. But we’ll have to assess how that moves.”
“We will have some PS3 products over the coming months, but we’re holding back our major top line products until this time next year.”
It won't be particularly good news for Sony, who will be keen to get all of the major developers producing their best titles to boost PS3 sales, but they also need to look at producing more first party titles, which analysts claim is "the key driver of console sales" if they hope to hit their target figure for 2007.
Source :: MCV
