Simon Jeffrey at Sega of America was one dissenting voice, informing Bloomberg that "there certainly will not be a lot of titles available" at launch. However, Hirai seemed confident about his estimate of 15 launch games, responding to Jeffrey's comments with, "I don't think there will be too much of an issue." Over at THQ meanwhile, CEO Brian Farrell admitted that the PS3 would be missing out on The Sopranos due to the lack of final hardware specifications, describing the project as "too risky" in the process.
Not everybody hates Sony, mind - other publishers stuck up for the company, with suits from Activision, Ubisoft and EA all speaking highly of the support Sony has offered them to date. Activision big cheese Robert Kotick told Bloomberg that the PS3 "is the most sophisticated piece of consumer hardware ever," before adding, "we know what the processors' capacity is - we have active development underway."
Kotick also mentioned that the first PS3 titles are unlikely to take advantage of more than a fifth of the system's power, a sentiment echoed by Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot: "We won't be able to take advantage of all the components of the [PlayStation 3], but it was the same last year [with the Xbox 360]."
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