Sega Tees Off With Ps3 Golf

Sega is already eyeing up the PS3 as a hot development prospect, and latest word leaks out of Japan that it will have a launch title for PS3 ready to swing into action this very spring.
Okay, so it's an as-yet-untitled golf game and we don't expect Sony to rush out the console so you can play Sega golf, so perhaps we shouldn't get too excited. But apparently the game is almost complete and, according to Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun, will feature the Japanese Miyazato family, who have a cult golfing status right up there with Tiger Woods in the Land of the Rising Sun.

In the game, you select from one of three siblings, Yusaku, Ai or Kiyoshi, and take part in golf tournaments across the whole world. Like the well-regarded PSP smash Everybody's Golf, you'll win all manner of clothes and collectible articles to enhance your golfing career.

Maybe golf has never been right up there among your most wanted sporting genres, but it is a fun post-pub multiplayer offering (just add alcohol forfeits on each hole to make it even more interesting) - and it could prove a vital title in the PS3's home territory for the golf-crazy Japanese.
What's perhaps most significant though is that spring 2006 delivery date. Golf is a fairly tightly confined and limited development project (it doesn't require the resources of an FPS for example), but it's still a significant development in that Sega Golf could very well be the first complete PS3 game, ready in the next couple of months.

An official announcement and final title is apparently expected shortly, but tears of unalloyed fanboy joy will no doubt be wept over at UK Resistance and by all Sega lovers, that their favourite publisher and developer is ready to tee off on PS3 this spring.