Needtocontrol, you missed one of the obvious benefits of trophies in that it can help boost sales of games that might otherwise not get purchased. As a 360 player, I’ve seen people do this on more than one occasion. They’ll buy, or at the very least rent, complete crap games just because the achievements are easy to get. I had a friend who purchased every single EA Sport ‘07 (perhaps it was ‘08) game just because all the achievements were cake. If Sony can manage to pull this off, I guarantee that there will be people rushing to be the highest ranked gamer on PSN. Maybe it’s not something YOU care about, but that is just you. One person. There are plenty of people out there who might care about getting their points up. I’d be willing to bet that if trophies catch on at all, there will be a section in PSTOM having interviews or something with people with crazy high gamer scores… or whatever it’s called on PSN… gamer rank? Something like that is, in and of itself, enough to get more than a few people fired up to rank up. Hell, look at people in CoD 4 getting elite ranks… which gets them pretty much nothing except being able to say I have an elite rank and there are lots of people doing that.

One thing that does bother me is how Sony doesn’t seem to learn when to shut it’s mouth, or at least tone things down a little. The same people that said the PS3 would be fully backwards compatible, and then not only didn’t deliver, but TOOK BACK backwards compatibility are now saying that ALL GAMES will eventually support trophies, and yet there are at least two developers that seem, to me at least, not at all excited about trophies, and at least four titles that will not support them.

On top of that Civ:Rev is being developed for the 360 at the same time, so it’s not like the developers don’t have some sort of groundwork to build from to add in trophies, since all games for the 360 are REQUIRED to have them, yet they’re not going to do it? Maybe Sony should try keeping third-party developers in the loop once in a while instead of letting them figure out their insane schemes months too late to do anything with them. Sometimes I really feel like Sony is fucking up on purpose.

And why does PSN suck? Maybe suck is a bit harsh, I mean, after all, it is free and we all know free stuff is always better than stuff that you have to pay for, right? Perhaps you should discuss it with a friend over voice chat, while playing two different games on your PS3, and let me know what you guys come up with… I’ll wait.

I cant see this being a problem not having them for old games, in fact I dont really need em for new games :)

I thought 40Gb was the smallest PS3 drive? Or was there a 20 in Japan/US?

Why does PSN suck? I don’t see anything wrong with it myself.