Is Mark Cerny an Engineer? *spawn

[I'mDudditz!]

While "lead designer" or "lead system architect" or similar likely carries much less of that connotation in peoples minds, if not outright expecation that people in that position are involved in marketing and would engage in marketing hype

I hope this isn't so. Engineer, Architect, lead designer. Doesn't really matter. We know Cerny is a technical guy, not corporate. We know of his technical contribution to the gaming industry over the decades. We know the core principles of the PS5 with its i/o focus was his vision, just as PS3 was Kutaragi's.

 

[Nesh]

In terms of this specific debate however it's not really about how much he was involved with respect to the design of the console.

The implication is that "engineers" of a specific type in peoples minds (well some) aren't involved in the marketing hype and wouldn't engage in that (which is a statement that can be questioned, but let's ignore that for a moment).

While "lead designer" or "lead system architect" or similar likely carries much less of that connotation in peoples minds, if not outright expecation that people in that position are involved in marketing and would engage in marketing hype.

People are thinking too much.
edit: Considering how pointless and overthought this is, it implies an effort to discredit his contribution and the system's design more than anything else.

 

[cheapchips]

We know Cerny is a technical guy, not corporate

They're not mutually exclusive. Cerny is used as part of marketing/hype. It doesn't mean his role as Lead Systems architect is meaningless from a technical perspective.

Steering PlayStation hardware to being developer friendly PC socs with some added features is arguably a crime though. Exotic hardware than only a handful of devs can exploit is what we want!

 

[Inuhanyou]

They're not mutually exclusive. Cerny is used as part of marketing/hype. It doesn't mean his role as Lead Systems architect is meaningless from a technical perspective.

Steering PlayStation hardware to being developer friendly PC socs with some added features is arguably a crime though. Exotic hardware than only a handful of devs can exploit is what we want!

It's what you want. Id rather Sony not touch that nightmare again if gens like ps3 is what we get

 

[cheapchips]

It's what you want. Id rather Sony not touch that nightmare again if gens like ps3 is what we get

Winky smily!

 

[Johnny Awesome]

Why not just make Cerny's title "god"? His worship is the reason we are having this debate to begin with.

 

[Inuhanyou]

Why not just make Cerny's title "god"? His worship is the reason we are having this debate to begin with.

Yeah. I don't think anyone calls cerny god. These kinds of posts are so ridiculous and over the top its silly

 

[DieH@rd]

He's a talented game dev programmer, who honed his craft in a time when a single dev was responsible for coding the entire game in low-level access to arcade hardware. After successfully leading game dev teams in PS1 years that all excelled in low-level programming and extracting a lot from PS1 hardware, he moved to low level programming for PS2 and PS3 with teams that designed those hardware. And then he led the projects for development of PSVita [first dev-friendly hardware from Sony after exoteric PS2 and PS3], PS4 and PS5.

IMO he's a very good choice for console system architect [a made up title that fits him well] because he can deliver the platform that devs actually want to use.