With the New Year comes a completely new mentality for the bigwigs over at SOE. Apart from a different mindset when it comes to free to play games, Sony Online Entertainments president, John Smedley believes that nearly half of their future profit will come from PS3 users. This is certainly a different direction than SOEs previous years of developing strictly for the personal computer. Heres the quote:
BIZ: Since MMOs have primarily been the domain of PC gamers, what impact do you see games like Free Realms and DC Universe Online coming out on PS3 having on your company?
JS: I think PS3 will be close to half our business. There's an audience now waiting for online games on the PS3. I believe PSN has over 15 million users today. It's growing so quickly, we see a great user base potential there.
