golem said:
wait you mean not all upcoming games will have trophys ? wtf is that??
Trophies are mandatory in all games in 2009. It starts in 2009 since it probably took Sony themselves 1-3 months to assists developers on utilizing trophies (a memo being sent doesn't always help) and get into an agreement to make it mandatory in the future. Many game releases are around September - November usually to get them out by the Holiday season, since that's when the big sales are usually. Once the Holiday season is over, games usually aren't rushed to get them out by any particular date (although some games are pressured to make it out by the Fiscal Year).
Right now, Sony is only encouraging developers to implement trophies. Reasons SOME games don't have trophies is:
-Games which have already been released in Japan and coming stateside (especially a PS3 exclusive) most likely never had some sort of achievement system. Adding trophies would be time consuming and really push it's release back. If Valkyria Chronicles got the addition, it would probably be pushed until next year.
-Since trophies were added in late May, early June, some games have already completed development OR were nearing completion (and already had a target release date). Adding them was either too late, or would really push the game back.
-Some publishers are pressuring developers to get their games out before the Holiday season (or their target release date_, and to implement trophies in some games will take time. That's why I'd think PoP and SW: FU don't have them.
-For a PS3 exclusive (like Naruto: UNS), not a single type of achievement system was probably planned in development. In order for the developers to add them, they'd have to carefully think where to implement trophies, completely edit the game code to implement them, and go through lots of testing to assure they work. If the game didn't really have a target release date, it may have been considered, but since it's trying to Target an October release, I can see why. MGS4 is kind of the same way where Kojima Productions would have to take a few months off of whatever project they are working on to figure out where to place them, add them, and then assure it works and not some other glitch comes up when editing through the game code.
Right now Sony is just trying to encourage developers to use them, but it's okay if their game doesn't have them (Sony isn't going to tell a developer they MUST have them this year because it could lead to a PS3 version coming later than a 360 version, or it could lead to a publisher getting angry because their game won't be able to meet its target release this year). But with all devs, they are told to implement trophies in ANY future game they make on PS3 (while development is still very early or hasn't started yet). Some developers (like Insomniac for an example) really can't go back and add trophies easily since their development teams are already assigned to particular projects and don't have an extra team currently to support older games.
