Sony "pleading" with Third-party Devs?

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shams said:

sieanr said:
According to Dean Takahashi, yes

"One piece of news that came out this week was that Sony pleaded with third-party developers not to abandon its struggling platform. That change in attitude is a marked difference compared to the arrogance of past years. The argument is that the PS 3 will show its strength as developers learn how to make games for it. But developers know they can staff four or five Wii teams with the same number of people it takes to make one PS 3 game. We may have a glut of Wii games soon, but that’s not as bad as not having enough games on the PS 3."

Full story; http://blogs.mercurynews.com/aei/2007/10/deans_take_on_npd_numbers_for_september.html

I'll believe it when I see a link to a real quote from a Sony executive. Otherwise its just interpretation.

I don't think any Sony executive is going to come out and say they're pleading with third party developers not to abandon their struggling platform even if that's what they were/are doing.  I doubt even third parties would say anything about it since they would have nothing to gain from it.