Sony - "This year is the year of parity, next year is the year of differentiation"

We said it, statistics & analysts said it, and now Sony's saying it.

"This year has been the year of parity...", says Shuhei Yoshida. It's true. Analysts said it and we felt it. 2006 was a disaster, early 2007 was the running start, and late 2007 was the leap which almost balanced the PS3 and 360. And as 2008 progressed, the two consoles balanced. No one can say that the 360 is better than the PS3 anymore, especially with the release of the final Metal Gear Solid. But what are we expecting now?

"...next year is the year of differentiation." Sure Sony makes mistakes, but at least they don't lie about it. Next year; the 360 will be past it's peek. 360 fanboys say that they don't believe it, yet most of them shudder as they read it.

"Next year will be the year that third-party development will favour the PS3". A new console needs time to understand how it works, but after everything is understood there's no need to whine about how hard it was to code for it. So we can expect less porting from the 360 to the PS3 and, of course, fresh exclusives. Perfect proof of this is the amount of delays resulted till now. All the good games suffered from delays. Why? Because third-party developers didn't really understand how the PS3 works, and so they thought that they where close into finishing the game, when actually they where not.

All we can do about this is wait and see. But looking forward; we can expect the best now.