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Sony's Tretton Sounds Off On E3 Leaks
An anonymous reader writes "Sony is hinting that previously released games might be able to use its motion sensor controller. Jack Tretton said it would be 'absolutely conceivable' that existing games could get a patch when the controller comes out next year — and implied that some of the games shown at E3 this year could ship with motion sensing built into them. The president and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment of America is also not happy about the leaks that preceded the company's E3 press conference (for example, details on the PSP Go). Tretton says it has become impossible to keep a secret in the gaming industry because of third-party publishers — and he's worried about the ramifications that will have as the company develops the PS4."
Joystiq's Law of the Game column has a related article questioning the value of NDAs now that the sharing of information has become so easy.
I been out of the video game industry for a while. But in the general IT world, NDAs seem to be doubling in size every year. The NDA at one company I signed this year easy made my apartment lease agreement look smaller (~40 pages).
You know, you aren't making this the safest site to view when at work with language like that in the tags.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
We have fucksony, sonysucks, gaystation, and the n-word.
Can /. change the tagging system around a bit please? Am I missing something or has it always been like this?
now we just have to figure out what this motion-sensing thing can do to gameplay while still requiring little enough movement from the player to keep going for hours.
Of course it definitely won't top the accuracy of a skilled gamer with a controller, or another one with a mouse and keyboard. Not to mention data density per movement. There is a reason why the keyboard is the most expressive form of user input, you know.
"We'll do everything we can do to make our pricing relevant. But remember cheapest isn't always the most successful. It's what you get for your dollar."
You know after having tried for years to make that a valid argument to justify purchasing a Mac and being told to go fuck myself repeatedly, I'd say to Sony "just find a way to make it cheaper, already."
If they really sounded off they would have given more details. Instead the title is misleading and it is only a slight mention of discomfort. If they were really mad they would have heads rolling. If they wanted more publicity, they could have canceled the E3 presentation.
It's actually so difficult to contain leaks that the president and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment of America has himself resorted to leaking the news there's a new Playstation console coming out in the future. THANKS third party publishers!
Don't trust a bull's horn, a doberman's tooth, a runaway horse or me.
Blaming 3rd party publishers for leaking information is like shooting yourself into a leg. It's Sonys own fault that the information got leaked in advance. I guess Sony wants to be the one to tell the tale, which it's entitled to but if information is leaked, maybe they should pick the 3rd party's more carefully next time who they are going to tell in advance.
Who wouldn't fall over themselves to pour money down the drain adding support for a peripheral nobody owns to a game for which you won't receive any more money?
Apart from the peripheral-specific titles, what games are going to support it?
Two words (try not to let your heads assplode): Wii. Ports.
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Making information more quickly available do not lessen the value of an NDA or its strength. they are both dependent on the value people put on the information, and how willing they are to respect their word and/or a contract, there is no value associated with how quick the info covered by the NDA can be spread. OTOH it become incresingly digfficult to respect a NDA when you have to read and understand 30 pages of legaleze. If anything, it is the lawyer fault by making NDA so obcenly tight and long legalze, they paradoxaly increase the "inadvertent" case of rbeaking NDA. But for the real full disclosure intentional break, there is as much as there ever was.
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Oh noes! People care about our products so much they won't stop talking about them! Whatever shall we do!?
Cripes. I wish -I- had high-class problems like this. I'm sure I could capitalize on them.
Or maybe he is. I mean, he managed to get a /. frontpage post about -nothing- this time. And he'll probably get one for each and every 'leak'. And each and every official notice.
"If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you." - DM
Tacking motion controls on an already released game? Yeah, that works out well.
*GASP* YOU MEAN THERE'S GOING TO BE A PS4? Just wait until I leak this to the media!
Nothing gets "leaked" before a major trade press event like this unless the company wants it to happen. The "BAW i dun lik when peeps say stuff b4 my speech" bit is just an act, and not a convincing one. Leaks build hype, and everyone knows this. It's all part of the show.
This is completely new and exciting
Possibly. If I were a Wii developer, and I determined that with a little more time I could put my game on 2 platforms instead of 1, why wouldn't I? (unless I am Nintendo :) )
Is that a bad thing?
Suddenly the PS3 becomes not only a competitor to the 360, but also a (more) direct competitor to the Wii, while offering something that neither the Wii or 360 has, access to the "other" style of gameplay.
If I were Sony this seems like a smart move. Then all they need to do is get a few of their "must have" games come with the device bundled to prime the market, and it might fly.
Something else that most people don't seem to realize is that the Sony version relies on the PS3's EYE camera also, so as soon as they start bundling that with the core system, you also end up with video-chat becoming more common (supports up to six people now).
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Jack Tretton is CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment of America. Last time I checked Sony Japan was the company that actually produced things, and made things. Jack works for a shell of a company which is mostly responsible for local AD's and running promotions. I'd be upset too if my job as a glorified county fair caller become more marginalized. "Step Right Up! See The Amazing New Sony Product!" He's just afraid Sony will realize they don't really need him.