Thatgamecompany founder Jenova Chen has said PlayStation games are better suited to a more refined palate. Unsurprisingly, Sony agrees.

“Sony has a more artistic and adult-focused taste. They care about how grown-ups feel toward their games,” Chen told Gamesbeat.

“The player who owns a PlayStation 3 is more likely to be interested in artistic games compared to Wii and Xbox 360.”

Chen’s games include Journey and Flower, just two of a number of independent PlayStation Network releases with a more intellectual or artistic cast. Sony’s Jack Buser was happy to confirm that this is a market Sony is keen to corner ahead of the competition.

“Our primary PSN audience is indeed more adult, and many of our best-selling titles appeal to this demographic,” he said.

“Many PlayStation and PSN games have themes that require a user to think and feel about a deep, immersive gameplay experience, and we see that exemplified in the success of titles like Flower, Journey, and Heavy Rain. Titles like these can only be found on PlayStation, and our users enjoy the emotional and thematic sophistication of their games, especially with our digital offerings.”

Now let’s all have a semantic-ridden argument about whether art has value to games and what adults want. Go on.

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I don't think I agree, XBLA has its fair share of games that could be considered arty and "adult-focused", Bastion or Limbo are good examples. Neither of which are XBLA exclusives, but they sell well on the system, Limbo was the third highest selling XBLA game in 2010, and Bastion did good numbers too. These 2 games among many others show that the audience Thatgamecompany has found on PS3 is also present on 360. 

What do you guys think?

If people can get past the slights at the Microsoft and Nintendo fanbase, which they can't because....they're slights at the Microsoft and Nintendo fanbase, then the guy's got a point.

One of the things I admire Sony for is releasing (and in some cases supporting) a range of very esoteric software on the PS3. Things like Linger in Shadows, Datura, .detuned, flOw, Flower, Journey, The Unfinished Swan etc

Bastion is not what I would call an 'artistic' game in these sense of what Jenova Chen was going on about, but Limbo....I suppose. I didn't enjoy it so my perception is tainted.

Oh, and I guess Chen won't be working on a 360 or Wii U anytime soon, the guy doesn't seem to like them very much. My guess is PC development, that's where the indie scene is best. 

I misread that as "autistic" at first, which would be a weirdly specific psychological study.

Had my sarcastic answer about how PS3 gamers hate games like Call of Duty and love buying games like flower ready to post but I deleted it. You can't just generalize people like that. For every gamer that buys Flower, there's twenty that bought Killzone. Yeah, there are some artsy games like Ico Collection and Journey available but similar titles also exist on the Wii and 360 and, on every platform, those titles and their audience are in the minority.

Your last paragraph got it right.

Generalizations
There's still more poeple buying CoD,KZ, UC,GoW on the ps3 than any of those artsy "games" by wide large margin. So idont know where this "refined plate" comes from.

"Many PlayStation and PSN games have themes that require a user to think and feel about a deep, immersive gameplay experience, and we see that exemplified in the success of titles like Flower, Journey, and Heavy Rain..."

uhu...

Clearly 100% empirically accurate.

I like to consider myself as an artistic adult but I no longer own a PS3, is this going to be problematic?

This is just a game producer/creator kissing ass to the company where his games only exist on based on the type of games they create.

Those games would sell equally well on other systems as there are people who'd buy them in any 60m+ set of gamers.

I agree, just look at the artistic and original games released on Sony's consoles. I also think PS gamers appreciate those kind of games more then anyone else. You might say "bb bu buut teh indie gamez" but Sony embraced unconventional games and genres for more then a decade.

Totally agree with him. Since I sold the x360 and wii and bought a PS3 I have become far more artistic. It didn't even take long for my new skills to develope. IPWKTIAJ.