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Ask Sony's Phil Harrison About PS3 and Games
During GDC Sony made an effort to answer questions directly from the gaming community, taking steps to put aside the problems of the past several months. Today, we have a chance to take another step in the right direction with the company. Phil Harrison, President of Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios, has been the face of the PlayStation 3 here in the United States since before the machine launched. He's agreed to answer questions from the Slashdot community about the PlayStation 3, the console since launch, and their recent announcements about LittleBigPlanet and Home. I've linked a trio of other interviews he's done recently below, to give you an idea of topics that he's already covered. I'm sure there are plenty of questions we might ask that have yet to be put forward in a public forum. So - feel free to ask away. One question per comment, please, and keep in mind that Mr. Harrison is here to answer questions about the PS3 and games only; any other Sony-related questions are outside the scope of this interview. The highest-rated comments will be passed on, and we'll post his answers as soon as we get them.
a total home multi-tainment center from the PS3? I'd like to see VOIP capability (with the ability to subscribe to any VOIP provider), Video-Conference capability (the same), possibly use external drive as DVR (with some sort of USB capture device), etc... I know the PS3 has the power to process the above, but will Sony support development of applications for the XMB to any tune of the above? There are just too many boxes in an entertainment center now. Certainly both Sony and the home user could benefit from the merge of the technologies.
Yes, sorry, I put the wrong word into the slot once. I know well that the NES had power, RF channel select and RF on the back, and on the side it had composite video and mono audio, both through RCA jacks. The mono audio was especially stupid. There was also an expansion port under a removable panel on the bottom (and actually under the easily removable panel was a snap-off-to-remove panel) but AFAIK it was never used. I used to have a famicom as well, but I don't remember precisely what connectors were on that.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
It's hard to tell from the picture that I found but it looks most like it plugs into a controller port. That's pretty interesting because the piano's interface was MIDI. This may be the only example of a MIDI interface that plugs into a console game system's controller port.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"