We all know what Xbox 360 Achievements are.

They’ve produced countless Achievement whores (including our own Jason Cipriano), and many see Achievements as a way to measure a gamer’s success.

Today, D3 Publisher of America not only announced the Xbox 360 Achievements for “Dark Sector,” but also PS3 “Entitlements” for the game. Remember “Entitlements”?

Back in July 2006, an EGM podcast revealed that Sony aspired to mimic Microsoft’s addictive Achievement system, calling the various accomplishments in the game “Entitlements.” But no further information was provided. We’ve seen Achievement-type rewards in Sony’s first-party games (such as “medals” in “Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune,” “Resistance: Fall of Man,” “Warhawk” and “glyphs” in “Heavenly Sword“) but they haven’t appeared in every PS3 game thus far… Though it seems that a few third-party titles are moving ahead, like “Devil May Cry 4,” which has identical Achievements for the Xbox 360 and PS3 (they’re called “accomplishments” on the PS3).

And would there be a numbered tally that adds up all these “Entitlements” across games for an overall “Entitlement score”? (”Entitlement whore” just doesn’t have the same ring to it…)

We’ve put in a request to D3 and Sony to try to find out more, and we’ll let you know as soon as we hear back.

http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2008/03/05/are-ps3-entitlements-back-dark-sector-announcement-provides-a-clue

I know you have been gone a long time, but you want to wait a little while before you make a hundred new threads.

I still think it just makes people with low self esteem feel like they accomplished something while others just don't care about it.

How many threads are you going to make today?

Still though its one reason why multi console owners pick the xbox 360 version over the playstation 3 version of the game. Having "entitlements" on the ps3 would help hinder that effect.

Is no one going to respond to his post? Rude.

On topic: Its coming. Im guessing on the same day that the Store redesign is happening.

 Yea i guess.  PS3 needs help to get US consumers to buy it so this is good.

 Atleast 7.

Entitlements is a horrible name, surely they could have come up with something better. Even something as simple as 'award' points sounds better. It will be interesting to see what happens with this though.

 Yeah, couldn't they do accomplishments or something? Entitlement makes feel like it's gonna say "You unlocked Affirmitive Action points!"