Sony was kind enough to invite us to a small roundtable discussion with Sony Computer Entertainment of America President and CEO, Jack Tretton.
The guy, apparently, is pretty important. Following yesterday's press conference -- which was hosted by Tretton -- it stands to reason that the press had a few questions. Tretton was pretty forthcoming and candid in the laid back roundtable.
Some highlights include:
- How did Sony react to the Final Fantasy XIII 360 announcement? ("Am I disappointed by it? Yeah. Am I surprised? No.")
- Are Sony feeling pressure to deliver Home after Microsoft's avatars announcement?
- What's the hold up with Home?
- The PlayStation 3 as a media center versus a gaming console. ("[We] can't deny [Sony's] heritage by painting it only as a game machine," he said.)
- Is there an opportunity to turn consumers who purchased for Blu-ray into gamers?
- Digital rights management and the PlayStation video store.
- Does the movie store effectively kill off the UMD? ("I certainly hope not.")
- Have Sony thought about a hard drive or storage space solution for future iterations of the PSP?
- The discrepancy between PSP hardware sales and software sales. (Tretton cites piracy as one of three reasons.)
- Why no mention of Killzone 2 at the press conference?
- Being "Indian givers" regarding PS2 backwards compatibility on the PS3. ("You can stack [the two systems] on top of each other if you really want to," he joked, mentioning that the price point of both consoles today equals the cost of a launch PS3.)
Crank up your speakers and download the entire session a-la-podcast from our media server.
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6:14 PM on 07.16.2008
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I mean, once the amount of dedicated Playstation marketing in the UK was huge, the console had a ride named after it in Blackpool Pleasure Beach, vans toured around and consoles were shown off in nightclubs.
Why not now? I admit, in comparison to the Jap store, the US store is crap...and guess what, In comparison to that the UK store is barely worth visiting except the occasional over-delayed fantastic PSN games.
How about a little more love Sony? Some PSOne games that were actually in the charts in the UK, maybe even games originating from english developers and publishers.
The UK is not Europe. We speak English too. I look forward to the our version of the video store.
That last bit about the PS2 Backwards compatibility sounded DOUCHY. Not funny Mr. Tretton.
Didn't like the fact that he made the nonexistant BC sound so absolute, but great roundtable otherwise. I hated him less here than I have every other time he's spoken.
I can't listen to this on my not-R4 that I only use for podcasts, honest. =(
Obviously the statistics said that not enough people cared about BC on the PS3 compared to other things that it's been taken off the table. And, as he said, if you asked people if they're rather have BC or not, of course the answer is going to be yes, but not ahead of other capabilities.