Jeff's in the news

[Cire]

Every time I go to someones house who has PS2 I'm made really aware that the PS2 (for me) is just such a great machine with shitloads of good games.

Equally shitloads of crappy games as well. Nothing great about the ps2 except the library of games imho. And I for one am sick to death of falling into sony's false promises and failures to deliver.

I can recall 2 E3's ago when both sony and M$ unviled thier consoles and all sony showed was some footage of supposed in game, that everyone went ballistic and so hyped it into the heavens. Recent E3 showed that all that hype was so undeserved. I've had a number of bad experiences with sony hardware and will boycot the ps3 no matter how good/bad it turns out to be.

Hell, I even enjoyed developing for PS2 more than XBox.

You must be one of the oddballs then, as I understand it 99% of developers out thier find that ps2 development is cumbsome and awackward, with outdated toolsets and hard to reach support.

So this time I'm not gonna miss out. I've got a little piggy bank into which I am stuffing the change from my pockets on sunday mornings.

You must have awfully big SUNDAY pockets!

I'm really looking forward to PS3.

To each his own, no doubt that sony still will claim majoirty of the console market as thier still seems to be many suckers out thier willing to bend over and take it as it comes like it or not.

++Cire.

[A Black Falcon]

I probably will not buy a PS3, because I think it's too expensive and at this point it doesn't interest me and they don't seem to be very interested in me. I never bought a PS2 either, for the same reasons, and it's only lately that I regretted this even slightly.

Same here, it's only this year that I've regretted not owning a PS2...

They could do with a change in their public image, imo, because Sony really has become the evil empire. I can't remember the last time I heard a Sony rep talk passionately about games, the console, or gaming in general, at least not in a convincing manner. Or simply talking about having fun with the PS3.

Such images are hard to change though, as Nintendo has found with things like it's seemingly indellible "kiddy" image... but it's harder when you do nothing to change it, like Sony is now. They are completely lost in their corporate number analysis and Blu-Ray pushing that they can't see it for what it is, a console... you don't sell consoles by emphasizing their high price, talking about how it is a replacement for your PC, talking about how it could come in many user-selectable configurations like a PC, saying that it'll sell whether or not you release games for it, etc, etc, etc... but Sony can't see that. They are too lost in their ways... as some have said, perhaps like Nintendo was by the end of the 16-bit generation. Overconfident and sure that just by being them they would win... and the public agreed -- before the competition showed why they should be considered.

Oh, the PS3 is very impressive technology, and a few of the games look interesting (FFXIII), but at that price, and with whatever inevitable Sony DRM get stuck in the box... no, I won't have one anytime soon. Maybe a PS2, perhaps, but not a PS3...

For PS3 speaks, that it's a system from Japan and therefore will be supplied with all those lovely weird Games from Asia (something like Vib Ribbon, Katamari Demacy, etc..). I dig those Titles and don't think Oxbox will get much of these.

Or will those games instead be on the Wii...

[asr4096]

For PS3 speaks, that it's a system from Japan and therefore will be supplied with all those lovely weird Games from Asia (something like Vib Ribbon, Katamari Demacy, etc..). I dig those Titles and don't think Oxbox will get much of these.

Or will those games instead be on the Wii...

Absolutely correct, i forgot about that. The reason behind my thinking is, i just want a single console for everything.

[teamonkey]

Ooh, eck. It's hit Eurogamer and wank has occurred. Best comment:

"But hey, the ugly sister is better in the sack"

just wait till you try the sister without limbs, Mr. Minter! a new world of pleasure awaits you.

[D.J.Fudge]

http://www.joystiq.com/2006/07/13/sonys ... -arrogant/

What would you say to the suggestion that Sony is being arrogant?

There's always going to be a risk when you are market leader for ten years that we start to lose perspective; and we have to make sure that we don't lose perspective. But I don't think we're arrogant, I think we have to recognize that we're in a highly competitive industry and that anything that we say will be eternally editorialized by professionals and consumers alike. So we're always in the spotlight.

Would you say that recently Sony has been hurting its PlayStation brand? Recently we had someone say...

Jeff Minter?

Yes, who said that Sony is being arrogant. Is PR hurting Sony at the moment? You have things like notable Sony representatives saying that Microsoft copies Sony when in fact I'd say that they feed off each other equally. Do you think that's hurting Sony?

I think you can always take quotes out of context...

But [Kaz Hirai] specifically said "Microsoft is copying Sony".

Well, as I said, quotes can always be taken out of context. They can be put into a harsher light as a result, but that doesn't mean that the PR strategy is one of arrogance. So they're two separate things.

This is where I stopped recording: after the tape was turned off and I said, "that's it, thanks".

Phil then said something along the lines of "well those were positive questions", in a vaguely sarcastic tone.

[sack]

so.. in 10 years do you think we'll get what sony promised us with the PS2 or not?

[Jamesac]

Phil Harrison doesn't get it, does he?

James

[PVB]

http://www.joystiq.com/2006/07/13/sonys ... -arrogant/

What would you say to the suggestion that Sony is being arrogant?

There's always going to be a risk when you are market leader for ten years that we start to lose perspective; and we have to make sure that we don't lose perspective. But I don't think we're arrogant, I think we have to recognize that we're in a highly competitive industry and that anything that we say will be eternally editorialized by professionals and consumers alike. So we're always in the spotlight.

Would you say that recently Sony has been hurting its PlayStation brand? Recently we had someone say...

Jeff Minter?

Yes, who said that Sony is being arrogant. Is PR hurting Sony at the moment? You have things like notable Sony representatives saying that Microsoft copies Sony when in fact I'd say that they feed off each other equally. Do you think that's hurting Sony?

I think you can always take quotes out of context...

But [Kaz Hirai] specifically said "Microsoft is copying Sony".

Well, as I said, quotes can always be taken out of context. They can be put into a harsher light as a result, but that doesn't mean that the PR strategy is one of arrogance. So they're two separate things.

This is where I stopped recording: after the tape was turned off and I said, "that's it, thanks".

Phil then said something along the lines of "well those were positive questions", in a vaguely sarcastic tone.

"....eternally editorialized..." Speak plain English Phil!

[Anders]

He looks so happy too.

[eb]

Sony isn't only arrogant...

http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/politik/ ... 92,00.html

[teamonkey]

Sony isn't only arrogant...

http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/politik/ ... 92,00.html

...they like doing arthouse perfume-stylee faux-lesbian adverts too?

[Bubba]

He looks so happy too.

Fucking should be, those T-Shirts are awesome! And you can't buy them anywhere

Cheers

Bubba

[Mayhem]

Took me bloody ages to find someone willing to sell me one as well...!

[toxibunny]

if they had only given me my Wipeout all this could have been avoided.

ever fancied making a racing game?

[namor7]

Took me bloody ages to find someone willing to sell me one as well...!

Oh man, that's awesome