Sony's Harrison on Sony Arrogance

Joystiq had the chance to exchange a few words with Sony's Phil Harrison at the UK Develop Conference. They asked him some hard questions about the crazy comments that have been coming out of the company since E3. From the article: "There's always going to be a risk when you are market leader for ten years that we start to lose perspective; and we have to make sure that we don't lose perspective. But I don't think we're arrogant, I think we have to recognize that we're in a highly competitive industry and that anything that we say will be eternally editorialized by professionals and consumers alike. So we're always in the spotlight." After the tape was off he snarked that he hadn't been asked very nice questions. Poor guy, having to answer questions that aren't 'How awesome is the PS3 going to be?'

^^ Phil Harrison

[Jakhel]

log in you arrogant bastard

General Motors execs used to sound like that

[Animats]

He comes across like a General Motors exec from the glory days.

Re:Confusing the enemy

[Anonymous Coward]

They may be 2 divisions of the same company, but they are still part of the same company. The truth is that companies attempt to build a corporate culture throughout all of their divisions; any form of morality/imorality a company displays is entirly because of this coporate culture.

Since the early 90's Sony's corporate culture has been that marketing sells a product and that the product's quality is not important; which is a drastic change from their culture in the 80's, this took time to fully accomplish but now you can rarely find a Sony product that lasts 2 years. In the past few years Sony has been adding to their wonderful culture the concept that their Consumer's rights don't matter all that matters is the bottom line.

Sony is a bartender who is charging you $10 for his watered down drink because he wants to recover the cost of the roofie he dropped into it.

Re:Confusing the enemy

[geminidomino]

This is despite my best efforts to drop it onto pavement, into puddles, and so on.

Best efforts?

If you try to drop your PS2 onto the ground, and miss, I think it says more about you than the PS2's quality. ;)