Sony: No One Will Use 100% of PS3

[Miksu]

and games currently use less than half.

1UP is reporting MTV's interview with Sony's Phil Harrison. Sony's President of Worldwide Studios is quoted to say that "No one will use 100% of PS3" due to firmware upgrades and new uses for the Sixaxis controller.

Also he sees that overcoming the term "video game" is their biggest challenge.

I fervently believe that the biggest challenge we face is that our industry is referred to as 'video games,' and games are supposed to be fun. Games should deal with fear, should deal with comedy and with death. They should deal with peril, with drug offenses.

 

[inefficient]

I knew it all along!

I fervently believe that the biggest challenge we face is that our industry is referred to as 'video games,' and games are supposed to be fun. Games should deal with fear, should deal with comedy and with death. They should deal with peril, with drug offenses.

So it was Phil Harrison who has been sucking the fun out of video games to fufill his vision of un-fun entertainment where you feel only fear, peril, and drug induced euphoria!


[size=-3]Of course I'm sure that quote was taken out of context[/size]

 

[pipo]

Here's the interview: http://www.mtv.com/news/?source=TLD_mtvnews.com#/news/articles/1548258/20061218/index.jhtml

Next year you're going to see user-created experiences in a number of interesting ways on PlayStation 3...

But for PS3, the system's capabilities will keep changing as its firmware gets constantly updated via the Internet...

Is there an echo in here? Sounds an awful lot like MS on E3 2005.

I can't help but feel they're lagging lately...

 

[Nesh]

How do firmwares and the controller contribute to this?

 

[Capeta]

lol more PR BS...last I checked RE4 had fear, horror, gore, fun, as being a "videogame".

 

[pipo]

How do firmwares and the controller contribute to this?

I bet he wanted to say services, but that would be too much of a direct copy.

 

[Bad_Boy]

Did he have any year-end thoughts on perhaps the most unconventional game Sony published this year, "LocoRoco"? "It was a very successful game for us and we're continuing to evolve the franchise," he said. "We're going to bring 'LocoRoco' back in a couple of new ways with some new friends in the future."

I like the sound of that. That game would be perfect on the PS3 with Sixaxis control.

 

[Shifty Geezer]

No console is used 100%. Or computer. I don't think there's any processor that keeps it's ALU's fed 100% of the time (while doing something useful!). You won't be accessing the memory at 100% available BW 100% of the time. Plus you can use 90% of a systems resources badly, and 70% well, and get better results with the latter.

 

[Nesh]

I bet he wanted to say services, but that would be too much of a direct copy.

Oh

 

[patsu]

Speaking to MTV, he said "nobody will ever use 100 percent of its capability" due to firmware upgrades and new uses for the Sixaxis controller.

How do firmwares and the controller contribute to this?

I bet he wanted to say services, but that would be too much of a direct copy.

The original quote in that MTV article is:

But for PS3, the system's capabilities will keep changing as its firmware gets constantly updated via the Internet, and developers will continue to learn new ways to best use the machine's multiple processors and Sixaxis controller. Sony's games on PS3 right now use "less than half" of the PS3, he said. "Nobody will ever use 100 percent of its capability."

Sigh... The 100% comment is separate from the firmware + SIXAXIS statement. Now it seems they have reached a new low. 1UP has lost their command of English, right after losing their journalism and lack of technical analysis capability.

 

[Nesh]

things are getting funny

 

[patsu]

things are getting funny

Next up... 1UP will demonstrate counting from 1 to 10, and memorizing the alphabet. ^_^

 

[ADEX]

lol more PR BS...last I checked RE4 had fear, horror, gore, fun, as being a "videogame".

Maybe they want to rebrand them as video nasties.

 

[22psi]

Sony can't keep their mouths shut.

 

[Cheezdoodles]

Ofcourse no games will use 100% of its theoretical potential, that is impossible for any console \ computer like hardware.

 

[Ben-Nice]

EA is going to prove Mr. Harrison very very wrong

 

[Sankari]

Ordinary Bob will surely love the sound of this though. 'PS3 is so powerful that I will NEVER use the full potential of it because it keeps evolving like pokemons!'

 

[Nesh]

I am starting to love this thread

 

[bRoNx]

Sigh... The 100% comment is separate from the firmware + SIXAXIS statement. Now it seems they have reached a new low. 1UP has lost their command of English, right after losing their journalism and lack of technical analysis capability.

Agreed. Seems a sudden wave of stupidity has swept through the 1up offices, as they continue to one up themselves!

 

[Crayon]

EA is going to prove Mr. Harrison very very wrong

No, no. I think Phil meant graphical or computing performance potential

Not wallet-sucking microtrans nickel and diming potential.