Archive for May, 2006

Phil Harrison fires back about Wii controller

Wednesday, May 31st, 2006

Spin, Phil! Spin! Good boy! *arf!* Since Sony decided at the last minute to make themselves something more Nintendo-like, naturally anyone with common sense would point the finger at Sony for ripping off other companies' ideas. How did they respond? By dodging the question and pointing their own finger BACK at ...

Phil Harrison: Seriously. Rumble is SO last gen you guys. Fuh reelz.*hair flick*

Saturday, May 13th, 2006

Phil Harrison: "rumble was last generation, movement is this generation." There it is folks! My latest quote to hang onto just because it WILL come back to bite him in the ass. Rumble is too important to gaming at this point in time for Sony to pull the next-best-thing ...

Warhawk Devs given 10 DAYS to add motion controls before E3

Thursday, May 11th, 2006

Looks like Sony's after Nintendo again! Just DAYS before E3, Sony apparently decided to add motion sensing controls (see Nintendo Sept 2005) to the PS3 game "Warhawk". 10 DAYS people! 10 DAYS before the largest gaming roundup in the WORLD. "The Wii features absolute position sensing via a control strip of ...

Both PS3 models offer ‘identical’ functionality, Sony exec claims

Thursday, May 11th, 2006

"Speaking to the BBC, Phil Harrison, president of Sony Computer Entertainment's games development studios, said: "What we should be clear about is that the functionality is identical in both machines. There is no difference in what the machine does." Yes. Well. Hrm. Let's list these differences, shall we? The lower model ...

Sony Europe CEO David Reeves “PS3 to sell 5m units w/NO games”

Tuesday, May 9th, 2006

Yeah. He said that. With NO GAMES the PS3 is going to be such a HUGE success that 5 MILLION people will buy one. Confidence is a great thing. But when you put words with confidence in the public forum, you get unfounded claims. Claims like "the Jets are gonna win ...

Sony fakes GT4 Demo

Tuesday, May 9th, 2006

Sony promised the public a working demo of Gran Turismo on the PS3, running ON the PS3 for E3 this year. However, things (like usual at Sony) didn't go as planned. i.e. They did go as planned, but not as they told the public. SONY SUIT #1: (in Japanese) The sound's ...

PS3’s “New” Controller: Lighter PS2 Controller with no Rumble. NOT BOOMERANG!

Tuesday, May 9th, 2006

"The controller itself is markedly light, as Sony lauded it to be. Perhaps this is because they ganked the rumble, perhaps this is because of some optimizations they've made to the hardware. But the result was something that some have described as cheap-feeling, but that we actually think shows foresight. ...