"PS3 Haters Lose Advantage, Jealousy Fuels Hostility"

[Pristine20]

rubido said:

Ronster316 said:

Ken was inspired to get in to gaming when he saw his daughter playing a mario game, he then works alongside nintendo to gain as much hardware and software knowledge as he possibly can and more than likely get inside info on other developers who worked for nintendo on a 3rd party basis, then the Famicom-playstation project is called off and Ken "thief" Kutagari goes running like a scalded dog to sony with all the development, hardware and software knowledge that he had stolen, thats how i see it and i'm not the only one.

 

 

Wow!! Just wow!! I dislike Kuratagi because I think he gets a lot of credit for playstation's success when I think it should go to other people inside Sony. I think Kuratagi is responsible for designing the playstation machines. The success of the playstation brand is their relationship with third-party developers.

But what you said is too much. I'm almost speechless. I think nintendo was the one who lost interest in working with sony, wasn't it?

He deserves the credit because sony itself was never interested in gaming in the first place. Kutaragi was, thats why he went behind their backs to nintendo which was obviously a company he admired. This is apparent because he was the one who told the story of his daughter playing mario. However, nintendo turned down the deal to work with sony and chose phillips instead for reasons that were never made public. I hear this was also one reason why Japanese corporate was mad at nintendo in general for choosing a european company over a traditional Japanese one.

Thus, perhaps out of pity or rebellion, many JP devs also chose to support the ps1 over n64 for these reasons. Add the fact that the ps1 was cheaper to develop for, a few moneyhats and CDs were easier to work with and you get the full picture.

The  concept of hating sony for arrogance is also ludricious as those that have been reading the gaming industry press for a long time know that nintendo was the one who invented arrogance as well as the other positives they've introduced to the industry. I personally don't care about this stuff because I don't listen to PR but supporting one company while condemning another for things the one you support have done as well is pure hypocrisy.