Dave Karraker, new PR head for Sony, was recently confronted by Gamasutra in a pretty intense interview.
So again, I think when you compare the two products, the Nintendo product versus our product, it's kind of apples and oranges. We're providing more of an entertainment system, and they're focused more on gaming.
Oh, and two more things:
GS: And how do the emulated downloads work for PSP? Have you announced pricing?
DK: Basically you just download them to the PS3, and bounce it to your PSP, and those will all be under $5. And then there will be downloadable content from hotspots.
GS: As an ex-Saturn person, do you think there's any chance of that downloadable content there?
DK: Oh, absolutely!
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There's no doubt the decision to include a Blu-ray drive inside PlayStation 3 is the primary source of Sony's troubles with manufacturing machines. (...) And while Sony doesn't deny the decision has cost units, head of worldwide studios Phil Harrison rationalized to pseudo-Major Nelson-esque-blog Three Speech that it's the right move.
"Yes, we have overreached in production of the Blu-Ray component -- I can't deny that. But that's the price you pay for adopting brand new, leading-edge technologies that will be future proof. We will resolve those issues -- we are already catching up," he says.
Rarely silent, this close to launch, SCEA told 1UP the following regarding Harrison's brazen "overreaching" remarks:
The PS3 is packed with advanced technologies, such as the Blu-ray Disc player, that have never been produced at such quantities. There is a learning curve here to consider. If we would have just made a gradual bump in our offering to PS2.5 it would have been easy to put millions on store shelves at day one, but then we would have disappointed our consumers who know Sony for developing systems that stand the test of time. Six years into the PS2 and it still has beaten the Xbox 360 in sales over the last several months.
