We already talked about the queues and the consoles madness preceding the launch of the PlayStation 3 and Wii in the US, and now that Sony have released their console (Nintendo will follow in a few hours), the time has come to dwell upon the games that accompany the two consoles, more or less next-gen.

Since they were the first ones to invade retail this week, I'll start with Sony. And I'll get right to the point, with the list of PlayStation 3 games currently available in North America, as it was meticulously put together by Shacknews (minus the developing companies and the other platforms on which they're available, since these trivial informations can be found in each title's local gamespace).

- Call of Duty 3

- Genji: Days of the Blade

- Madden NFL 07

- Marvel: Ultimate Alliance

- Mobile Suit Gundam: Crossfire

- NBA '07

- NBA 2K7

- Need for Speed Carbon

- NHL 2K7

- Resistance: Fall of Man

- Ridge Racer 7

- Tiger Woods PGA Tour 07

- Tony Hawk's Project 8

- Untold Legends: Dark Kingdom

So 14 titles all in all, a more generous offer than the one given one week ago to Japanese customers. Aside from these, Electronic Arts announced that they will release more PlayStation 3 games in the weeks and months ahead, starting with Fight Night Round 3 on December 5, and early next year NBA Street Homecourt and Def Jam: Icon.

2K Games (Take-Two) also stepped forward with a list of games, claiming to have around 20 games currently in development for the PlayStation 3. The two already available in the above list, namely NBA 2K7 and NHL 2K7, will be followed by College Hoops 2K7 (in January 2007), Major League Baseball 2K7 (February), The Darkness (Spring), The Bigs (Summer), NBA 2K8 and NHL 2K8 (September), plus other 2K Sports titles. Grand Theft Auto IV is also expected in Autumn next year (on October 16, 2007), after which Rockstar Games will continue with another promising title - L.A. Noire, as well as other, unspecified games based on their franchises.

Without entering into further details about PlayStation 3's capabilities, I will just point out that the console's online service already went live in the US, and with it came the first demo versions and presentation trailers for several games. Similar to Microsoft's Xbox Live service, PS3 users can now download four demos: Formula One Championship, NBA '07, Resistance: Fall of Man, and Motorstorm - one of the many games that missed the console's launch.

P.S. Oh and I changed my mind: Ridge Racer 7 doesn't look that good after all.

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