Sony's Harrison on Sony Arrogance

Joystiq had the chance to exchange a few words with Sony's Phil Harrison at the UK Develop Conference. They asked him some hard questions about the crazy comments that have been coming out of the company since E3. From the article: "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." After the tape was off he snarked that he hadn't been asked very nice questions. Poor guy, having to answer questions that aren't 'How awesome is the PS3 going to be?'

Comments

Confusing the enemy

[SuperKendall]

Remember the SONY BMG rootkit on CDs.

It's hard to forget, I would never ever buy anything from... Sony/BMG.

Sony games I have no issue with in that regard.

If your brother robbed a bank, would it be OK for me to arrest you? It's not fair to punish different divisions of a company that have little to do with each other just because one made a terrible blunder.

Remember that the PSP is a locked down, closed platform.

More so than the DS? What other handheld with even the sales of the PSP (a distant second to the DS) exists and is more open?

You are just confused because homebrew people have had more success with the PSP than the DS, which makes the lows of lockdown look much starker by contrast. I agree it's annoying as I'd like to use a PSP for some custom things as well, and don't own one yet exactly because I feel it's too locked down. But I own nothing in its place either.

How is that a troll? Mod up!

[SuperKendall]

What in there is trolling? It contains a lot of simple factual details about what the PS3 is. If I say the sky is blue, or that water will turn to steam when heated sufficiently, is that trolling?