After my last rant about Sony and their choices with the PS3, the 2007 Game Developers Conference took place in San Francisco and Phil Harrison was there to give a key note speech about PS3 Home (which admittedly does look pretty cool..if only for a few days until I get bored of it like Second Life) and again in his speech, surrounding interviews and general media that comes from his camp is just so reminiscent of the early days of Iraq II : This Time Its Personal (This Ones for you Daddy).
I've compiled a few of my favorite quotes by Phil, with what I think about them, and a comparable quote from the Comical genius himself.
| Do you accept that Sony has had a bit of an image problem with PlayStation 3 in recent months? Phil Harrison: No, I don't accept it. I've been doing my best to make sure that the world sees PlayStation 3 for what it is. I can't deny that we've had some challenges, but I think those are all behind us. | What – an overpriced POS?! No you've actually bee overhyping the PS3 and relaying bullshit information about its Super Computer Capabilities. Really Sony, the challenges are NOT behind you yet - you have a million of this monolith coming to the UK and they really aren't all preordered!! | Comical Ali says - "We are in control. They are in a state of hysteria. Losers, they think that by killing civilians and trying to distort the feelings of the people they will win. I think they will not win, those bastards." |
| It's all about software now, it's not about hardware. It's all about services, it's all about the way that the industry is changing and the way that we hope to be taking a leadership position in that change. | Since when has Sony been pushing the issue of Software over Hardware? If he truly believed this, the BluRay wouldve been scrapped in favor of, oh.. I dont know, maybe an easy produce DVD drive that developers can actually use! Services too... hmm, I forgot with M$ having IPTV, Media Center etc etc that Sony had BETTER services to offer... | Comical Ali says - "We have shot down 2 Apache helicopters. Have the Americans said yet that they were shot down by their - what do they call it - friendly fire? No? Well... [dramatic pause, then smiles] ...not yet!" |
| We've been hearing lots of positive things from lots of people, and the response on the blogs and the websites and the forum seems to be almost universally fantastic - so I'm delighted. | So you've only been reading the positive Fanboy sites then, because what I know online the PS3 has been welcomed like a shitstorm! | "The situation is excellent, they are going to try to approach Baghdad...and I believe their grave will be there." |
| There's still criticism of the PS3's high price point. How long is it going to be before the price comes down? But it's not about price, it's about value, and it's about putting into the PS3, offering the value that is going to make consumers satisfied - and I think we've done that. | My sentiments exactly Phil... its not about price one bit.. I forgot that everyone has a spare £425+ in their pockets to buy a gimped PS3. Value is speculative and relative.. so for a CEO I guess this isn't a massive issue but £425 is a lot of money to me! | Comical Ali Says : "We're going to drag the drunken junkie nose of Bush through Iraq's desert, him and his follower dog Blair...There are 26 million Saddams in Iraq" |
| The backwards compatibility issue has been talked about a lot in Europe recently. You made comments some months ago saying that backwards compatibility was important, something that you wanted to give consumers and that they wanted... Why has that strategy changed? The strategy has not changed. We have made a technical change to the machine which moves us from being a hardware-embedded backwards compatibility solution to one which is a combination of hardware and software. | This is Comical Ali all over! “The strategy has not changed”!! That could actually be a direct quote! The strategy has changed, changed in the favor of Sony, not the consumer. I read a recent article testing 12 PAL PS2 games on the PS3, all games I would say are worthy of playing (Guitar Heroes 2, GTA amongst them) and only 1 of them worked?! Jeez... what a great stance! | Comical Ali says "They are not in Najaf. They are nowhere. They are on the moon. They are snakes in the desert..." |
| In America, where PS3 disc is already out, Blu-ray disc is surging ahead as the next-generation movie format of choice. It's absolutely trouncing any other formats, and I think we'll see the same in Europe and the UK. | What?! Next gen wise this is speculative at best as the reports on the Next Gen format of choice are largely false, but saying its trouncing any other format is utter lies. Using the words "any other format" makes it sound like hes encompassing DVD into it, yet DVD is still the media of choice by far... incorporate DVD figures and its easy to see that no one currently cares about HD discs | Comical Ali says "We're going to drag the drunken junkie nose of Bush through Iraq's desert, him and his follower dog Blair...There are 26 million Saddams in Iraq" : Falsifying facts, just like Phil! |
So there we have it... one interview diluted into Comical Alis styling! This really could be part one of a million, as I took all those quote from ONE INTERVIEW!! There are a lot of better and more "Comical" ones but this will do for now! I said previously to not get me started on Phil Harrison but I just cant help myself... the guy is just a fucking douche!
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not to be on phil's side, but blu-ray has doubled hd-dvd's sales the last two months. so it looks like that part of their strategy is working so far. but it's still early... plenty of time for another sony media format to fail.
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