Sony didn’t reject Windows; Ken Kutaragi did (though it may seem like a distinction without a difference, there is a difference... A big difference.):
“In 1999, teams from Microsoft and Sony Computer discussed jointly developing an online videogame business. Mr. Kutaragi secretly flew in May of that year to Boeing Field in Seattle, where he met Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, who dropped in from vacation via helicopter. The two met again in July at Microsoft's Redmond, W...
My thoughts exactly.
A highly intelligent http://www.indeed.com/m/vie... 'black box' that supports VR among other things.
Nope... E3 2019.
More like 4K at 60fps and 2K at up to 240fps (120fps per eye).
You’ve moved the goalpost. Saying that “microsoft benefited from Sony design legally yes”, isn’t the same as saying “microsoft benefited from Sony and the Cell creation through leaked tech.”
The latter carries a different connotation, and suggests that there was an effort on the part of Sony to conceal tech that Cell makes use of from becoming known to Microsoft; and that it became known to Microsoft through nefarious or illegal means despite Sony’s efforts to keep it under...
Don’t despair over the absence of Killzone 2, for in due time it will return with the PS5.
@Apocalypse Shadow
The Cell’s tech wasn’t leaked. That’s a fallacy, which has been spun and sensationalized (as usual) by “journalists”:
"Shippy doesn't believe that Microsoft yet knew that Sony had the PlayStation 3 in the works -- but liked what it saw in the PowerPC technology that was now possible thanks to design principles partly researched for Cell. "The initial tech that we built -- yes, it was paid for through the Sony-Toshiba-IBM D...
That someone was Jack Tretton. And what’s worse (and most unfortunate), Tretton said that it was gameplay (from 3:46 - 4:16 of this video https://www.youtube.com/wat... ) which is what Angie Smets recounts from 6:43 - 7:12 of the documentary you linked to.
Three years after the controversy a Guerilla Games dev took to the PSblog and said:
"The E3 2005 trailer was not fa...
I would’ve liked to have put my palms on it too. But at least some of it’s curved and sculpted surfaces made it onto the DualShock 4:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1...
http://legitreviews.com/ima...
@dirkdady
No… What you and “all” those who agree with you claim to know is a revision of history. Ken didn’t need to go over the head of Kaz to do anything because he was the head -- the buck stopped with him, full stop. And even after Ken retired, Kaz still sought to have input from Ken:
“You know that he's a man full of ideas, and that resulted in what we know today as the PlayStation business. And that benefits not just us and Sony, but all the pub...
You’re mistaken. Jack Tretton never said that. You should watch the video again to refresh your memory https://www.youtube.com/wat...
It wasn’t Ken’s vision (a vision that SIE/Sony has been gradually making a reality over the last 12 years) https://ima...
@ImGumbyDammit
John Kodera isn't the father... Ken Kutaragi is:
"With a network future in mind, Kutaragi is rapidly making deals he hopes will create the infrastructure for a high-speed broadband network to handle games and other services for PlayStation. His goal is to establish the PlayStation as a separate brand, not part of a dedicated Sony network for the online distribution of music, movies, and TV shows." -- Irene M. Kunii. Bloomberg,...
@TankCrossing
Nah…It’s a cool breeze; blowing away a false narrative -- fake news which you felt a need to propagate.
Your “Before” remarks were a thinly veiled attempt to slight the PS3, because of course, the lines (or rather the lies) are that the PS3 ended up not being able to output to 2 displays, run games at 120 fps or achieve Toy Story quality graphics (graphics that have a filmic quality to them); when in fact the truth is that the PS3 ended up doing all o...
@TankCrossing
Before and after the PS3 launched, it was amazing:
Eurogamer: What you're doing here is something I can really appreciate... taking something that's there in the home and being pushed beyond its original design specifications. Although having said that, the original PS3 specs talked about dual HDMI ports and 120Hz outputs. Ken Kutaragi really was thinking ahead of his time there.
Ian Bickerstaff: When I joined Evol...
Hmm... DualShock VR and PS Home VR incoming?
Yup, that Cell processor; and your opinion of it is of no importance. But what is of importance is the fact that features of PSN, all of PSN's streaming services, the modules of CLEDIS, the 'brain' of AIBO and the AI database that AIBO communicates with to get ideas all utilize the Cell processor.
Should rumors suggest or news break in the next year or two that a new Cell processor is going to be used for PS5, don't be suprised or shocked -- as its time will...
You didn't quote Ken Kutaragi... You misquoted him. The quote is:
"Whether consumers think a product is expensive or cheap all depends on the balance between its appeal and price," … "Our ideal [for PS3] is for consumers to think to themselves, 'OK, I'll work more hours and buy it.' We want people to feel that they want it, no matter what."
Also, the goal wasn't "for consumers to think to themselves 'I will...
Your account of how PlayStation came to be is wrong. Sony didn’t need help from Nintendo to make a CD-ROM-based system. Ken Kutaragi proposed to Nintendo that they work together to make one:
“"We designed a small chip and made an offer to Nintendo, and they picked it up in their 16-bit system, the Super NES, which offered PCM [pulse code modulation] audio," said Kutaragi. The work gave birth to a small team of about five designers, including Masakazu Suzuoki, who ...