Sony: PS3 was too radical for us to think about videogames

Sony UK’s very own Ray Maguire has been espousing the virtues of the Black Box o’ Blu-ray once again, this time claiming the the PS3’s functionality was so “radical” that Sony simply couldn’t devote its time to making videogames. It’s simply that easy to forget that your games console is for games, apparently.

“When we first started – because all the functionality was radical – we talked about that functionality,” Maguire explains. “And in doing that, maybe we weren’t strong enough on the games side of it. Now, with the strength of the games we’ve got coming out, this Christmas we’re definitely about the games. From our own first party, and also third party, there’s a feast of games for PS3 this year.”

Grab a fork, boys, it’s feasting time! Far be it from Sony, however, to forget that there’s still all that radical functionality. Maguire asserts that people are only now beginning to “understand” features like PlayTV and the relationship between the PS3 and PSP. It’s radical!

The PS3 is, without a doubt, an amazing piece of technology, but Sony needs to not repeat its mistakes by forgetting that gamers care primarily, and sometimes exclusively, about videogames. The PSP was also marketed as a multi-functional device, but it feel flat on its face when it went up against the comparitively low-tech, but infinitely software-richer, DS. Extra functionality is great, but it should never, ever come at the expense of the games. Hopefully Sony has learned this now.