Phil Harrison: Blu-Ray and a moment of humility

However criticized ThreeSpeech may be as Sony‘s blogline to the rest of the world, no one can deny what we’d like to call “moments of humility” that show that it’s not as bad as critics would like to believe it is. Like this: Sony exec Phil Harrison admitting to both Eurogamer and ThreeSpeech that the company “overreached” with Blu-Ray inclusion.

It was the shortage of blue laser diodes for Blu-Ray readers that hampered Sony’s PS3 production, and caused the much-deplored Euro launch delay/Japan and US launch cuts. Harrison says,

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 also says that Sony’s still sticking to its six million PS3s-by-March target.

A moment of humility, indeed. But like Catholics usually believe (I said usually), it’s not the sin one should obsess about to death, but the getting-back-up part that we should focus on. Same thing with the PS3. This close to launch day, the one thing that really remains on the itinerary is to ramp up production and prove EA wrong.

Another thing Harrison talked about was the rather sudden, though very much welcome, HDMI inclusion into 20GB PS3s. Harrison says,

The reason for the change was in reaction to a market trend, which is that much more displays are being sold with HDMI, earlier, than had been previously forecast. Not just Sony, but all the other TV manufacturers.

However criticized ThreeSpeech may be as Sony‘s blogline to the rest of the world, no one can deny what we’d like to call “moments of humility” that show that it’s not as bad as critics would like to believe it is. Like this: Sony exec Phil Harrison admitting to both Eurogamer and ThreeSpeech that the company “overreached” with Blu-Ray inclusion.

It was the shortage of blue laser diodes for Blu-Ray readers that hampered Sony’s PS3 production, and caused the much-deplored Euro launch delay/Japan and US launch cuts. Harrison says,

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 also says that Sony’s still sticking to its six million PS3s-by-March target.

A moment of humility, indeed. But like Catholics usually believe (I said usually), it’s not the sin one should obsess about to death, but the getting-back-up part that we should focus on. Same thing with the PS3. This close to launch day, the one thing that really remains on the itinerary is to ramp up production and prove EA wrong.

Another thing Harrison talked about was the rather sudden, though very much welcome, HDMI inclusion into 20GB PS3s. Harrison says,

The reason for the change was in reaction to a market trend, which is that much more displays are being sold with HDMI, earlier, than had been previously forecast. Not just Sony, but all the other TV manufacturers.