Sony boss: We were late to offer platform-level support for PS3
Every gamer knows the history between PlayStation Network and Microsoft‘s Xbox Live. At the start of the console battle, Sony‘s online service has always been on the shadow of Xbox live. Now Sony has admitted they are late in offering platform-level online support for the PS3. More after the break.
Every gamer knows the history between PlayStation Network and Microsoft‘s Xbox Live. At the start of the console online services battle, Sony‘s online service has always been on the shadow of Xbox Live. Now Sony has admitted they are late in offering platform-level online support for the PS3.
Speaking in the latest issue of of Edge magazine, Sony Computer Entertainment president of worldwide studios Shuhei Yoshida has said:
I think we were late to offer the platform-level support, to make the online functionality work at that level. We made the prior decision that you do not introduce the common centralised network names into every experience, so publishers made their own. That was fine at the start, but as more and more games have online functionality you need a unified approach. So Microsoft took that approach in the last generation, and maybe that’s where people see the difference when they compare Xbox Live and PSN
Commenting further on the issue, Yoshida goes on to say that Sony is making improvements with the new 3.0 firmware and further centralising the PlayStation Store into the PS3 experience. He also said that SCE should really continue to look at adding and improving features on PSN and admits that the company is not ruling out integrating social networking sites like Facebook.
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Via CVG