I know everyone is probably going to be caught up in the small picture, and well not see the forest from the trees. So I will just point it out. What should really grab your attention is how knowledgable he is about the concerns expressed by their community. Basically it is a sign that they are paying very close attention. Not that they haven't been opinion miners for years when it comes to games. Remember Microsoft paid trolls to antagonize game forums to get genuine feedback about what gamers wanted in a console. Before they even launched their XBOX.
So yeah its actually a fairly good sign. You might not agree with his sentiment, but at least it isn't based upon ignorance. Which lets face it we get a lot of that when it comes to gaming. The old head up their ass syndrome. You know like the much hated escort mission. I have never met or talked to a player that likes escort missions in games. That would be thousands of fellow players, and you would think if there was a market for this tediousness that I would have heard from it by now. Yet every year we get escort missions. People who have to do escort missions in real life hate escort missions.
Anyway I thought it was worth pointing out. Those comments were fairly well aware of the current public opinion at the moment. Hell even sounds like he has thought about this a lot. Which in my book gets him an A . I realized early in this generation that much of what we hear from manufacturers is pretty nondescript, and just damned vague. You can usually play the words to the picture of say a Frisbee, and you would have no problem thinking that they were talking about that Frisbee. In this case you know what he is talking about, and he is actually talking to you instead of just spouting out verbose gibberish.
