| Pristine20 said: He deserves the credit because sony itself was never interested in gaming in the first place (1). 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 (2). 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. (3) |
(1) Ok, that does give him credit for something. But then, what else did he do? Design the playstation machines. The ps1 has a crappy disk drive. The ps2 also has a crappy disk drive, was not as powerful as the competition and even more expensive than it and was complicated to develop for. The ps3 has a wonderful disk drive compared to its previous iterations (finally Ken, you finally figured it out in just 10 years), but is complicated to develop for and it's design made it too expensive. I think the playstation brand was very successful due to many factors but not because of the hardware in itself. I only see Ken as a bad designer compared to the other console's designers. Ohhh... and he is also really arrogant.
(2) This was mainly because of nintendo's arrogance at the time. Not because of their split.
(3) Just do it like me and don't support any company. They all lie to get your money.
