Rumor: Trophies may become mandatory in 2009

only first party?

Trophies should be mandatory now. But better late than never.

"May"?

Must.

I got my second trophy last night. :)

I have no interest whatsoever in trophies.

WHAT NOW BYATCHES?!?!?!?!

whats the game with the trophies?

what game has trophies?

Trophies should have been mandatory from the moment Sony thought of putting them in - if Uncharted can do it so can everyone else. Just more half baked after the horse has bolted thinking from Sony....

I want some friggin' trophies!!!

Release those god damn Uncharted and Warhawk patches already!!!!

Thats right lets make the development process more demanding and longer for developers, maybe that way developers will stop complaining about the complications about developing on the ps3. I'm the type that wants the developers to concentrate on the game not achievements or trophies.

I am only one trophy away from getting my Platinum trophy. That Destroy 10 Nukes is amazingly difficult and I managed to pull it off with 3 lives and 7 Bombs to spare!

Now its the Bomber, that ain't going to be easy! I feel it should be mandatory from now on!

I think this is great because 2009 is just around the corner (in terms of games, not time :P). I mean, I'll only be getting SOCOM, LittleBigPlanet, and Resistance 2. Maybe FIFA 09, I'll think about it. But those 3 titles I stated will have Trophies. I'm happy Sony is mandating Trophies. I gotta say, they made me realize how great Super Stardust HD was.

What I'm curious to know is what are Home Trophies and how will they work? I think they should just ditch that idea and put Platinum Trophies on display for Home to not complicate things that much.

This is a rather harsh requirement by Sony tbh.

Trophies are extras, why the hell should they be mandatory now that they decide to release a firmware with trophy functionality.

I'm all for trophies but i think its a bit of a dodgy demand on developers.

About time SONY started DEMANDING things to create a consistent feel amongst games. Now that they have lowered the OS requirements they should be making in-game music and chat mandatory too.

I have always thought trophies are a waste of space. Can anyone tell me a good enough reason why they're not?

I'll tell you why they are:

1. Games haven't been about scoring points since playstations came out. Why go back to the past? There's a reason we got rid of "rewards" and that's because we don't need them at the end of the game any more, telling us we did well, or that we enjoyed the game.

2. Sometimes single player games are just single player games, and I don't care if my friends can do it better. These games aren't about bragging rights and should not have trophies.

3. I want to enjoy the games as the developers wanted them to be enjoyed. Not with extra pop-ups that "add replay value" (read: "get in the way"), which ultimately change the way you play the game and destroy the atmosphere. Think: instead of roaming around on adventure, you find yourself looking under every rock and stone to get the looked-under-every-rock-stone-and-house achievement, which takes twice as long as actually playing the game.

4. This feature has only been brought on because of desperate Xbox fanboys (and girls) shouting about how us PS3 owners can't "enjoy" achievements, and were stupid for buying the wrong console, and the Sony fanboys (and girls) who were daft enough to listen to them. Unfortunately, Sony has indulged these people and not its actual consumer base who just want to play the games rather than shout and argue about them.

5. As John said, it's a waste of resources for developers. They could put actual cool stuff in games (think along the lines of the Playboy magazines in Metal Gear).

6. It's a waste of Sony's resources. They could be adding other cool stuff, like, I dunno, taking screenshots of 1080p videos for use as wallpapers, or... letting us access files on a PS3 over a home network... releasing more PS1 games... scouting the market to secure actual exclusive titles... fixing the lag of remote play... adding more flexible context (triangle button) options in the XMB. Do you need more?

Wake up people.

The platinum icon is displayed on every game. I assure you PSN games don't have them.

PSN games do not have trophies i assure you. That same graphic will be displayed in every trophy supported game wether it has platinum or not. Do a bit of searching online and you will see it is true.

PSN do not have platinum trophies! If you don't believe me unlock everything on SSHD and see for yourself. You must live in a cave because this is well known now.

I like the idea of trophies. I admit that I was one of the ones that thought achievements weren't a big deal at first, but the more I heard about them the more interested I got. It's a fun way to compare your experience playing a game with a friend. "Hey, you got that trophy that requires you seduce the Wookie? Dude, you're sick!" It doesn't have to be about purely adding to your score, which is why I like the ability to do a game by game comparison with your friends.

I'm not 100% sold on mandating trophies in games, but given how multiplatform devs seem to like to skimp on the PS3 version's features (no voice chat in Rock Band, for example), then maybe it's not a terrible idea.

Implementing trophies is NOT tough. It's the kind of work you give to the junior developers while the senior guys go work on the hard stuff. It's not like it's going to add months to development time or anything, especially if the developer knows from the beginning that he's going to need to support them.