Rumor: Trophies Mandatory In 2009
Posted by x3sphere at July 18, 2008, 1:49 pm
According to an anonymous development source, Sony will be making the inclusion of trophies mandatory with the release of each new PS3 title going forward in 2009. Doesn’t sound too far fetched to us, considering that trophies are essentially Sony’s answer to Xbox 360 achievements.
What’s interesting, though, is that Sony may be requiring a certain level of variation in regards to trophies. Meaning, if a third-party dev studio is working on a multi-platform project for both PS3 and Xbox 360, they won’t be able to simply recycle all of the same challenges in each version of the title.
Rumor: Sony ‘mandating’ some unique Trophies in 2009 [Joystiq]
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what's wrong with recycling challenges? It's not like ps3 owners will care that they have the same trophies as xbox owners. It just sounds like another thing to annoy studios with, and at this point I don't feel like Sony should be trying to polarize the studios.