In what seems like a continuing, and somewhat disturbing trend, more bad news came through today regarding a PS3 game Theseis.

According to PS3 Land, Managing Director Vicky Valanos told them the following: "If Sony were to offer us assistance in producing a PS3 version we would be more than happy to oblige!"

"We plan to develop Theseis for PC and Xbox360 in the near future. As for the PS3, we simply made a strategic decision to not move ahead because we deemed it not probable at this time."

Not probable due to what, Mr Valanos? Overwhelming development costs we assume since that is the reason they gave for the termination.

Could this be the first of many smaller third party developers to pull out of PS3 development? With the cost of developing on 360 and PC being relatively good, and Nintendo working closely with the smaller developers to release innovative new games for the Wii, Sony stands as the odd man out with their high-end PS3. This raises the question, will the PS3 only receive the big budget franchises, and games from major developers who can afford the expensive dev kits and ongoing costs? Only time will tell and we'll keep you up to date of any other small developers who pull the plug on PS3 titles because they can't afford it.

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