Over the last year, PlayStation fans have heard and felt the aftershock of a former exclusive title going multiplatform and looked down upon it. With Sony taking the stance that they would no longer buy exclusive opportunities and instead coerce companies into developing for them exclusively with their consoles raw power, gamers became uneasy.psava

According to Kaz Hirai, we can now all rest easy as Sony has started to re-evaluate the idea of buying exclusive properties for their console. In a recent interview with the ThreeSpeech blog, Hirai had this to say when questioned about Sony’s past stance on the subject.

“That’s something that we can re-evaluate, but it’s also something that the publishers need to make a business decision on. Ultimately, it becomes a dialogue – if it makes sense for them to go exclusive, that’s a business decision that they need to make. But generally speaking, because of the investments that publishers need to make in this round of hardware, it’s going to be more difficult for publishers to make that decision. Where we come into the picture is to have that dialogue with the third-party publishers, to say: “OK, what can we do together if it’s not exclusive that makes the PS3 version of the game more compelling for the consumers than any other version?” Let’s face it – all the games are coming out on a Blu-ray disk which has 50Gb capacity, so let’s put in some making-of content, or maybe additional levels. Also, it really becomes important for the first-party studios to really come up with some envelope-pushing, genre-defining content.”

It will be nice to see Sony push a little harder to either keep exclusives in-house or to bring new exclusives under their wing. A lot of us are waiting to see more developers take advantage of the extra disk space provided within the Blu-ray format. If you’d like to check out the interview in its entirety, feel free to click the source. [ThreeSpeech via PSU]