Funny Ken Kutaragi Quotes: a fan-boy litmus test

If you’re going to think that this is a negative, Sony-bashing article, then you’ve passed the fan-boy litmus test. Admit it: no matter how much we appreciate the console, Sony PR just goofs up sometimes. Moreover, it’s a whole lot funnier when the foul-ups come from execs. Here are some amusing bits from the King of the Cosmos himself, Ken Kutaragi (Kutaragi Damacy!)

• “The PS3 is not a game machine”
• “Beating us for a short moment is like accidentally winning a point from a Shihan (Karate master), and Microsoft is still not a black belt. Just like with their operating systems, they might come out with something good around the third generation of their release.”
• “I believe we made the most beautiful thing in the world. Nobody would criticize a renowned architectÂ’s blueprint that the position of a gate is wrong. It’s the same as that.”
• “Microsoft shoots for the moon. Sony shoots for the sun.”
• “This time, Microsoft has stated clearly that it is going after PlayStation. However, they’re going not after the PlayStation 3, but the PlayStation 2. They were looking at 2, and that’s why Xbox 360 became like that.”
• “With the PS3, our intentions have been to create a machine with supercomputer calculation capabilities for home entertainment.”
• PS3 is “for consumers to think to themselves ‘I will work more hours to buy one’. We want people to feel that they want it, irrespective of anything else.”
• “The PS3 will instill discipline in our children and adults alike. Everyone will know discipline.”
• “Microsoft is trailing behind us, but they are not a threat. They are good at improving [on products], but we will be advancing to the next level with revolutionary technology.”
• “WeÂ’re not going to equip the PS3 with a HDD by default, because no matter how much capacity we put in it, it wonÂ’t be enough.”

The full article awaits after the jump!

If you’re going to think that this is a negative, Sony-bashing article, then you’ve passed the fan-boy litmus test. Admit it: no matter how much we appreciate the console, Sony PR just goofs up sometimes. Moreover, it’s a whole lot funnier when the foul-ups come from execs. Here are some amusing bits from the King of the Cosmos himself, Ken Kutaragi (Kutaragi Damacy!)

• “The PS3 is not a game machine”
• “Beating us for a short moment is like accidentally winning a point from a Shihan (Karate master), and Microsoft is still not a black belt. Just like with their operating systems, they might come out with something good around the third generation of their release.”
• “I believe we made the most beautiful thing in the world. Nobody would criticize a renowned architectÂ’s blueprint that the position of a gate is wrong. It’s the same as that.”
• “Microsoft shoots for the moon. Sony shoots for the sun.”
• “This time, Microsoft has stated clearly that it is going after PlayStation. However, they’re going not after the PlayStation 3, but the PlayStation 2. They were looking at 2, and that’s why Xbox 360 became like that.”
• “With the PS3, our intentions have been to create a machine with supercomputer calculation capabilities for home entertainment.”
• PS3 is “for consumers to think to themselves ‘I will work more hours to buy one’. We want people to feel that they want it, irrespective of anything else.”
• “The PS3 will instill discipline in our children and adults alike. Everyone will know discipline.”
• “Microsoft is trailing behind us, but they are not a threat. They are good at improving [on products], but we will be advancing to the next level with revolutionary technology.”
• “WeÂ’re not going to equip the PS3 with a HDD by default, because no matter how much capacity we put in it, it wonÂ’t be enough.”

Oh, and here’s the latest one. In an interview with Electronic Engineering Times Asia, Ken Kutaragi said this:

Though sold as a game console, what will in fact enter the home is a Cell-based computer. …The model image for the Cell-based network may be the Internet: servers around the world form one virtual ‘computer,’ and each PC accesses it. Application programs can no longer directly access the hardware; instead they will have to be written in high-level, object-oriented language. The Cell processor will completely change the concept of programming. I am sure that a technology revolution is about to occur, not only within Sony but throughout the digital consumer electronics industry.

Yeah, its not really funny. In fact, the quote is actually a bit serious and is quite informative about the power of the Cell processor. However, as interesting as Cell-induced paradigm-shifts in programming are, the bit that really really grabs hold of your brain and squashes it into grey mush is this one:

If processors of high performance and wide bandwidth like the Cell were linked together without sufficient security, a worldwide system crash could occur with one attack.

Here’s what this blogger thought: “Am I still listening to Ken, or am I watching an episode of 24?” Yes, this is all in good fun. Self-deprecating humor is healthy every now and then.

Via PS3 Today