GDC 2007 wuv: Phil Harrison, Kotaku sit down and talk

Hey,after that entire blackballing, then “sorry it got that far, let’s just agree to disagree” thing, you know we ALL were waiting for this. Kotaku’s Brian Crecente sat down with Sony‘s Phil Harrison for the ten-minute one-on-one that almost didn’t happen. Most of it as dedicated to details of the high point of Phil’s keynote, PlayStation Home.

Towards the end of the ten minutes, there were a few minutes to talk about Sony’s bad PR issues, and hey, maybe our last description of Phil as “humble when he wants to be” does hold water (begin quote):

Crecente: I think it is not an arguable point that you can say that there has been this sort of backlash against Sony.

Harrison: Yeah.

Crecente: Where is it coming from?

Harrison: You know what I would rather do, because time is short today, I would rather spend our time talking about the future, things going forward. The launch (Ed’s note: US/Japan) has been the launch. It’s about to happen in Europe, I’m really excited about that.

Maybe even more water. At the beginning of the interview (begin quote again):

Crecente: OK, I guess the first question is judging on the…

Harrison: Congratulations on your New York Times performance by the way.

Crecente: I was shocked at that.

Harrison: I’m very proud of you.

To be fair, the full interview on Home can be read at the Read link, but we think we covered the one important point here. Dang, Phil, you are more surprising than a ginormous jack-in-the-box in Times Square. Yeah, it’s all PR goobley (the interview was conducted with a Sony PR rep around), but even then, this isn’t just “agreeing to disagree.”

Hey,after that entire blackballing, then “sorry it got that far, let’s just agree to disagree” thing, you know we ALL were waiting for this. Kotaku’s Brian Crecente sat down with Sony‘s Phil Harrison for the ten-minute one-on-one that almost didn’t happen. Most of it as dedicated to details of the high point of Phil’s keynote, PlayStation Home.

Towards the end of the ten minutes, there were a few minutes to talk about Sony’s bad PR issues, and hey, maybe our last description of Phil as “humble when he wants to be” does hold water (begin quote):

Crecente: I think it is not an arguable point that you can say that there has been this sort of backlash against Sony.

Harrison: Yeah.

Crecente: Where is it coming from?

Harrison: You know what I would rather do, because time is short today, I would rather spend our time talking about the future, things going forward. The launch (Ed’s note: US/Japan) has been the launch. It’s about to happen in Europe, I’m really excited about that.

Maybe even more water. At the beginning of the interview (begin quote again):

Crecente: OK, I guess the first question is judging on the…

Harrison: Congratulations on your New York Times performance by the way.

Crecente: I was shocked at that.

Harrison: I’m very proud of you.

To be fair, the full interview on Home can be read at the Read link, but we think we covered the one important point here. Dang, Phil, you are more surprising than a ginormous jack-in-the-box in Times Square. Yeah, it’s all PR goobley (the interview was conducted with a Sony PR rep around), but even then, this isn’t just “agreeing to disagree.”