Trophies mandatory starting January 2009

  • Posted November 21st, 2008 at 04:53 EDT by
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We're sure the majority of you are getting frustrated wondering as to whether or not Trophies will be included in a new PlayStation 3 title.

Do post-release patches inconvenience you to replay a title in order to gain the Trophies that were added? Chances are, none of you are alone in this frustration and Sony is stepping up to the plate to correct it.

Speaking exclusively with VideoGamer.com, a representative for Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) confirmed that all PlayStation 3 titles will include Trophy support starting in the new year. "Yes from Jan 09 all games must have trophies."

Although the rep didn’t elaborate any further on the subject, there’s no doubt that this can only be good news for all PS3 owners out there.

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  1. Doogal_UK | Doogal_UK

    • 4:56am GMT - November 21st, 2008

    Sounds good, its shocking how few games have trophies even at this stage into their lifetime

  2. JonW18 | JonW18

    • 5:12am GMT - November 21st, 2008

    I love the shock of when you pick up a game and you didnt know it would have trophies like CoD: WaW

  3. BayBud

    • 5:15am GMT - November 21st, 2008

    Am I the only person who doesn't give a s**t about trophies?

  4. Rafaelcbf12 | Rafaelcbf

    • 5:59am GMT - November 21st, 2008

    @ 3 I'm right behind you.

  5. walshy | walshy27

    • 6:05am GMT - November 21st, 2008

    @Baybud

    No your not alone. I wouldn't go out of my way to collect trophies but its nice to get them as your going along anyway. As long as i enjoy playing the game, that's enough for me!

  6. RTs42 | ags2yvx18o

    • 6:24am GMT - November 21st, 2008

    wow cool every PS3 game will have trophies

  7. DaNiEL-- | DaNiEL--

    • 7:10am GMT - November 21st, 2008

    Thats good because i hate getting a new game like fifa 09 and not getting trophies, even the though the trophy system has been out for a good time now, and achievements are exactally the same it shouldent be that hard to implement them to trophies

  8. Fijiandoce | Fijiandoce

    • 7:28am GMT - November 21st, 2008

    woo?? i guess..... its kind of a hastle( I dont mind earning them though) especially the ones in gta. uncharted ones were ok though.

  9. Lunar_Chaos

    • 7:36am GMT - November 21st, 2008

    It's about time!

  10. killahki | killahki

    • 7:54am GMT - November 21st, 2008

    It's a good thing because it gives your games collection more replayablity.

  11. a_stray_bullet10

    • 8:29am GMT - November 21st, 2008

    yeh lik wtf NBA on xbox can have achievements but oh no we dont wanna do that on PS3!!! god damn it. well done sony for stampin ur foot down

  12. l3iscomix | BiscoMix

    • 8:39am GMT - November 21st, 2008

     What about in-game music? I only have one game out of the 13 that supports this, which is Warhawk. 

  13. DantheMan_69

    • 8:57am GMT - November 21st, 2008

    yeah i knew this like 4 weeks ago from HIPHOPGAMER on his podcast really old news again. still this should be good getting the trophies will win you prizes in HOME i just might add so u heard it from me 1st lol

  14. ultramega

    • 9:09am GMT - November 21st, 2008

    Finally!

  15. Dangerzone

    • 9:20am GMT - November 21st, 2008

    i mean no different from other store updates i just want playstation home and dcuniverse online like they promised us on E3 08

  16. DJDarkViper | DJDarkViper

    • 10:04am GMT - November 21st, 2008

    goddam*it FINALLY now if they could do the same for Custom Soundtracks and In-Game Screenshots, itd be golden!

  17. TekkenLord | HitMan00

    • 11:47am GMT - November 21st, 2008

    bout time, wonder what type of trophies god of war going to have.

  18. ephracis | ephracis

    • 12:23pm GMT - November 21st, 2008

    Yeah! Now make it mandatory to support in-game music from the XMB.

  19. Alpha2

    • 12:32pm GMT - November 21st, 2008

    In game music will never be mandatory, that's just making it harder for the devs and the last thing you need with the PS3's position is to make things harder.

     

    I've gone on record saying we dont need trophies, but the thing is they do create replay value. Yes it's a bribe to try and convince you to keep playing a game, but it's one that is working and besides you dont want to let M$ think they're better just because theyhave their own useless bribes in achievments do you?

     

    One thing I wonder is if thiss means old game will be getting them too or if it's just the wave of games starting in '09?

  20. rexdeath | rexdeath

    • 2:40pm GMT - November 21st, 2008

    It's about time!!! Get to work devs of the world

  21. Stev-o | kingboy941

    • 3:18pm GMT - November 21st, 2008

    ok but my concern is....wut do we need the trophies for??we should be able to do something with the amount of trophies we get...because if not we're getting these trophies for nothing

  22. l3iscomix | BiscoMix

    • 3:21pm GMT - November 21st, 2008

     @Alpha2

    How is it harder for the developers? If they were able to patch in-game music for Warhawk, then I’m pretty sure they can patch it later or have it already there for their games. They don’t have to do it, so they don’t do it.

     
     

  23. darthrazorback

    • 3:49pm GMT - November 21st, 2008

    No matter how much I want to buy a game, if it doesn't have trophy support, I skip it.

  24. MotorStormman222 | BuffaloNY92

    • 4:14pm GMT - November 21st, 2008

    awesome! If Saints Row 2 only had trophies... 

  25. Arimax

    • 4:17pm GMT - November 21st, 2008

     Now when did it become okay to demand these devs. to put trophies in their games. Isn't it already enough when they make a game. This is one reason I feel games were going 

  26. TRIPLEACE | GODSACE

    • 4:47pm GMT - November 21st, 2008

    @3, i agree

  27. tuanny

    • 5:00pm GMT - November 21st, 2008

    now in game music needs to be mandatory.

  28. Rauland | PPp_Killer

    • 6:17pm GMT - November 21st, 2008

    why didnt they make it mandatory starting when they were first released? 

  29. tab

    • 8:39pm GMT - November 21st, 2008

    I don't think that Sony could justify the requirement of in game music. What is actually more realistic would be for Sony to make it a OS feature in the PS4. Just like MS did with there Console this Gen. Obviously its very difficult for them to allocate that extra power with the current gen system, otherwise they would have done it already.

  30. gingo | gingo

    • 9:53pm GMT - November 21st, 2008

    psn id: gingo.... although i'm not massively obsessed about getting trophies it makes sense that when a feature like this is added that all games at least use them in some way

  31. hvnlyswrd08

    • 10:36pm GMT - November 21st, 2008

    @ 5 I Couldnt Put It Any Better Myself

     

  32. Chaozhoutiger | Teochewtiger

    • 1:59am GMT - November 22nd, 2008

    I could care less about trophies. In-game music on the other hand; that would be some real news.

  33. zarajoe

    • 6:45am GMT - November 22nd, 2008

    T obe honest trophies do not interest me at all, I just want to play the game thats all.  Though overall this is a good idea and would make the Playstation Network a lot more competitive to xbox live.  Although I personally think that PSN is already better mainly because its FREE, as it should be

  34. teevanator | teevanator

    • 8:01am GMT - November 22nd, 2008

    yes good finally

  35. I_AM_LEGEND246 | Cilldealga + IAMLEGEND2468

    • 9:45am GMT - November 22nd, 2008

    YYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!! ITS ABOUT  TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! =) :) :P

  36. GoTaX | Tio_MigueL

    • 11:16am GMT - November 22nd, 2008

    Finally.

  37. BadGuy

    • 7:33pm GMT - November 22nd, 2008

    Yea, trophies are nice but where is all the in-game music? I'm sick of hearing all these crappy game soundtracks.

  38. xtago

    • 9:41pm GMT - November 22nd, 2008

    Yeah... I NOW only buy games where there's Trophies.

    God I have so much depth, just like a carpark puddle.

  39. speeddragoon | speeddragoon

    • 4:28am GMT - November 23rd, 2008

    Trophies= epic

  40. Frapple

    • 5:57pm GMT - November 27th, 2008

    Trophies are so cool :D

  41. AJthecarguy

    • 9:22am GMT - January 31st, 2009

    This is a very good idea, looking forward to see what developers come up with.

  42. blklablscitysdmf

    • 11:13pm GMT - February 2nd, 2009

    Now i wish they would make trophies for the older games...It seriously can't be difficult to make a trophy patch up for some of these, maybe one for Heavenly sword (hey I can dream can't i?)

  43. Coward619

    • 11:30am GMT - February 12th, 2009

  44. cap-ten-caveman

    • 5:46pm GMT - February 28th, 2009

    I hope they put ot trophies for Call of Duty MW and the Guitar Heros.

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