PS3 will become Preferred development platform, Says Tretton

Looks like the PS3 is slowly starting to edge out the Xbox 360 according to Jack Tretton, CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment America, has said that developers are starting to adopt PS3’s hardware as their base for developing multiformat titles, which are then watered down and ported to other consoles.

Speaking to IGN, Tretton claimed, "We are now starting to see developers creating games on PS3 and then porting them to other platforms, such as EA's Burnout Paradise.”

"Developers are telling us that they are starting to create their games on PS3 first and take advantage of the hardware capabilities and then port down to other platforms so we are seeing tremendous progress from the third party community in terms of what they are able to do with our development kits”, he added.

“You will see some very nice things in 2008 coming from our third party partners in addition to what you will see this holiday."

As it stands, Burnout Paradise is currently the first major title to utilize the PS3 as primary development hardware, though Call of Duty 4 has demonstrated that games developed with the Xbox 360 in mind does not necessarily result in a drop of quality for the PS3 version.