PS3 Fanboy

There's a fine line between madness and genius. For better or for worse, we can't tell which side of that line God of War creator David Jaffe is on. He's updated his personal blog with what he says is a look into his next game ... "sort of." These are doodles for level design that haven't been sent off to the rest of the Eat, Sleep, Play team quite yet. Considering the strange shapes of the non-Spider-man figures, we'd postulate that this is a puzzle, or vehicular game of some sort. Of course, we could be very wrong -- what's your guess on what the heck is going on here?

[Thanks, Gambit07!]

Eat Sleep Play was supposed to be all about small games, like Calling All Cars. However, looks like Jaffe's having a change of heart. Jaffe spoke with MTV Multiplayer, and admitted that "what we learned in Calling All Cars is that right now on console we're not interested in doing what we thought we were going to be doing entirely as a company, which was doing PSN console-based small, $9.99 downloadable arcade games. We're definitely not exploring that." [emphasis ours]

Jaffe points to games like Warhawk and Gran Turismo 5 Prologue: games that are available on the PS Store and in retail on Blu-ray disc. These games are unique in Sony's catalog, as they're smaller than traditional retail games, but feature much more depth than a typical downloadable title. It looks like Jaffe is looking at this comfortable middle, one that's larger than the confines of a typical arcade game, and smaller than a mega-budget retail game.

[Via NeoGAF]

Eat Sleep Play is David Jaffe's new development studio, which is independent from Sony and other such gaming conglomerates. More or less. Jaffe stuck his head out of the office where he's undoubtedly hard at work on something to comment about the console war, stating that "when the dust settles" the PS3 will be really close to passing or will pass the 360 in terms of market share.

Jaffe made some more broad comments as well, stating how he likes the Wii but isn't moved as much as other journalists and such with Mario Galaxy. He's very excited to hear about Burnout -- how the true experience for playing the game is on the PS3. He feels this may be the beginning of a shift in power towards the PS3, making it the most powerful console or, as some may equate the two phrases, the best. Who knows. We'll find out over this year, we suppose, as a lot of multiplatform games will fall under our scrutiny for just that purpose.

David Jaffe, the mind behind the God of War and Twisted Metal franchise, may not work for Sony any more -- but that doesn't mean he's no longer a PS Fanboy. His new games studio, Eat Sleep Play, is working on a PS2 version of Twisted Metal Head-On and will work on three exclusive games for Sony. In a revealing Q&A with GameDaily, the outspoken game designer said, "I love the PlayStation 3. I love the PSP. I'm a big Sony fan. That doesn't mean that I'm not a 360 fan; I'm a Wii fan, and I love all the systems, but there's something about the PS3. I said it before when I was an employee and I'll say it again now, there's something just really elegant about playing games on that system."

The years of working with Sony has crafted a tight-knit relationship that Jaffe would love to continue. "So right now, we're looking to be in bed with Sony as long as they'll have us. Hopefully we'll make them happy. We'll make Sony proud, they'll like what we do, and they'll have us back time after time ... I mean the people there, they are like a family, I've worked with them for fourteen years; I have no desire to not work with them."

Make sure you read the rest of GameDaily's interview to find out what he thinks of Ratchet & Clank Future ("my game of the year"), and what he thought of Heavenly Sword ("I think we did a better job on God of War.").