PSM Interviews Sony Authorities

Source: PS3Forums

PSM had an interview with Kaz Hiral and Jack Tretton. Kaz Hiral is the president and Chief Executive Officer, Co-COO, sony Computer Entertainment America and Jack is a Executive Vice President, Co-COO, Sony Computer Entertainment America. StrikeMasterIce from PS3Forums has typed the whole article. Good job!

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PSM: What do you say to the Playstation 2 owner that knows the PS3 is coming in 2005, and isn’t sure what that means for their current system?

Kaz Hirai: We’re into year five now with the Playstation 2 and we see a lot of life left in the Playstation 2 even after the Playstation 3 is launched. I think that a lot of publishers who were really not as aggressive in pursuing the older platform in terms of software support saw how the Playstation was in business for 10 years, so I think this time around you’re going to see a lot more titles coming out for the Playstation 2, certainly next year and even beyond, obviously from first party, but also third party community as well.

PSM: What ever happened with the PS2 HDD and the media software for it?

Kaz Hirai: A couple of things there. One, we felt that a lot of those uses were suited for a portable environment, so you see a lot of that on the Playstation Portable. By the nature of the portability of the product, you going to have more uses for things like showing photos to your friends and what have you. That, as well as, quite honestly, the ramp up and the number of units were able to get out of the hard drive and the software support unfortunately did not mean we were going to have a 1:1 tie ratio with the Playstation 2s we had out in the market. We also had the redesign to the slim model PS2 as well, so, what we’ve done, again, in realize that these are all good functions to have, and we’ve incorporated them into the Playstation Portable. I think it’s proven to be nice functionality that many people will take advantage of….”

The whole article is long, but worth a read. You can view it [here].

Source: PS3Forums

PSM had an interview with Kaz Hiral and Jack Tretton. Kaz Hiral is the president and Chief Executive Officer, Co-COO, sony Computer Entertainment America and Jack is a Executive Vice President, Co-COO, Sony Computer Entertainment America. StrikeMasterIce from PS3Forums has typed the whole article. Good job!

“

PSM: What do you say to the Playstation 2 owner that knows the PS3 is coming in 2005, and isn’t sure what that means for their current system?

Kaz Hirai: We’re into year five now with the Playstation 2 and we see a lot of life left in the Playstation 2 even after the Playstation 3 is launched. I think that a lot of publishers who were really not as aggressive in pursuing the older platform in terms of software support saw how the Playstation was in business for 10 years, so I think this time around you’re going to see a lot more titles coming out for the Playstation 2, certainly next year and even beyond, obviously from first party, but also third party community as well.

PSM: What ever happened with the PS2 HDD and the media software for it?

Kaz Hirai: A couple of things there. One, we felt that a lot of those uses were suited for a portable environment, so you see a lot of that on the Playstation Portable. By the nature of the portability of the product, you going to have more uses for things like showing photos to your friends and what have you. That, as well as, quite honestly, the ramp up and the number of units were able to get out of the hard drive and the software support unfortunately did not mean we were going to have a 1:1 tie ratio with the Playstation 2s we had out in the market. We also had the redesign to the slim model PS2 as well, so, what we’ve done, again, in realize that these are all good functions to have, and we’ve incorporated them into the Playstation Portable. I think it’s proven to be nice functionality that many people will take advantage of….”

The whole article is long, but worth a read. You can view it [here].