Sony America’s vice president of product marketing, Scott Steinberg, has boasted that the platform holder will deliver an influx of “AAA quality” titles for PlayStation 3 over the course of 2009, promising yet more revelations at this year’s E3 convention.
Speaking to GameDaily, Steinberg commented, “We’re shipping a great lineup and it’s relentless and AAA quality,” adding, “Starting it with Killzone 2, we’re going to arrest the momentum from competitors with titles like MLB 09: The Show, which some are calling the best sports title ever made.”
“Then in summer there’s inFamous and you’ll get to see even more excellent titles at E3. If PlayStation fans thought that we’d rest on our laurels from last year and if competitors thought that we’d punched ourselves out, both are mistaken.”
Steinberg highlighted Killzone 2 as one of the most significant PS3 releases thus far, observing that the Guerrilla Games shooter is likely to sway Xbox 360 owners over to test the waters of Sony’s black box.
“We feel that Killzone 2 is a tremendous exclusive. It’s an exclamation point that demonstrates the distance between the PS3 and other systems. The game is 40 gigs and could not be done on anything else. It will move people from the sidelines, and from what we’ve seen from blogs, will push 360 owners to try out the PS3. I think it’s going to be a major launch for us and this historical PlayStation brand,” he said.