I have to wonder if ol' crazy Kaz has finally lost it.  This is the story pretty much all the tech/game sites are posting from yesterday:

Kaz Hirai comments on the current state of the video game console industry and his view of the future: 

Sony Computer Entertainment chairman Kaz Hirai made several interesting comments in an interview with the Official PlayStation Magazine. The contents of the interview were relayed to the public via Eurogamer and will be available in the February issue of the Official PlayStation Magazine.

Although Sony no longer leads the industry in console sales Hirai believes Sony still possesses "Official" leadership of the videogame industry. He stated, "This is not meant in terms of numbers, or who's got the biggest install base, or who's selling most in any particular week or month, but I'd like to think that we continue official leadership in this industry,".

Hirai expanded on his statement explaining how he did not view the Nintendo Wii as competition and declaring the Xbox 360 as a console that will lack longevity. Describing how he viewed the Nintendo Wii's position in the industry Hirai, stated, "It's difficult to talk about Nintendo, because we don't look at their console as being a competitor. They're a different world, and we operate in our world - that's the kind of way I look at things." For the Xbox 360, Hirai continued, "And with the Xbox - again, I can't come up with one word to fit. You need a word that describes something that lacks longevity."
 
Hirai also reemphasized his belief the PlayStation 3 will have the most units sold at the end of the lifecycle for this generation of videogame consoles. He is quoted as saying, "unless things go really bad, there's no way that at the end of a life cycle our competition is going have a higher install base."

As a wrap up, Hirai commented on how the PlayStation 3 was deliberately designed to be difficult to program for in order to increase the overall lifecycle of the console. Sony has often described the PlayStation 3 as having a 10-year lifecycle. Hirai added, "We don't provide the 'easy to program for' console that [developers] want, because 'easy to program for' means that anybody will be able to take advantage of pretty much what the hardware can do, so then the question is what do you do for the rest of the nine-and-a-half years?"

yes he has gone over to the bad place.....a very bad place

Wait, has he ever been sane? Kaz is the kamikaze soldier of Sony.

Hopefully he knows what he's talking about.

The PlayStation 3 was deliberately designed to be difficult to program for to artificially increase the lifecycle of the console? That's... I'm speechless.

They sound like Nintendo during the N64 era. It seems all Sony can think about is how to screw over the developers the most.

I'm totally agreed with Kaz for making a console difficult enough, as long as we are getting games like God of War 2 in the 7th year of a console life.

 Yeah, it's hilarious! I didn't believe that particular line, but when it comes from Kaz's own mouth:

"We don't provide the 'easy to program for' console that [developers] want, because 'easy to program for' means that anybody will be able to take advantage of pretty much what the hardware can do, so then the question is what do you do for the rest of the nine-and-a-half years?"

That's really crazy!

@Chrizum: I can't believe he made that comment either.

BTW, there is already a thread on this.

I think you are confusing Kaz Hirai with Ken Kutaragi. Kaz has never been this off kilter before.