Zim said:
theprof00 said:
To play devil's advocate, I would say he's acknowledging that the news COULD be true, but that he hasn't heard of anything. Obviously he can't say "that's a lie" as it could be true somewhere, but I think it's a close to saying "that's a lie" without actually doing so.
Remember, this is one rumor from one source. Nobody has stepped forward announcing their intentions, no cancellations have been made, no other source has backed the rumor. He also says something very poignant with, "greatly exaggerated", in a culture where exaggeration really doesn't sit well, I could only imagine that this was the work of incendiary journalism, or a western reporter.
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You are doing the exact same thing as him though and shifting the focus. It could't be true 'somewhere' as in many places. The original rumour states that MAJOR Japanese companies are shifting projects. If a Vice President at Sony has no contact with MAJOR companies and no idea about their projects for Sony's platform then there is something majorly wrong. He didn't allude to it being a lie at all. He was asked about major Japanese companies and replied that no-one can talk about all developers.... something that no-one but him had done. His response regarding major Japanese developers shouldn't be ''I haven't heard anything''. It should be 'Absolutely no'' or if the answer is actually yes then the correct PR/marketing way to handle it would be to shift the focus of the question to the fact there are still plenty of other games coming i.e. exactly what he did.
Also of course no cancellations have been made. Simply because at the moment we know of almost no games coming from major Japanese companies beyond the next few months (i.e. finished or nearly finished titles). It is likely we will never know how many projects were cancelled because so few were announced in the first place. We only know of a handful of 3DS titles that were cancelled but you can be sure there were more. It is much harder to cancel an announced project than one only known about internally.
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I think you're overanalyzing.
What this article says to me is that some projects have been cancelled, but there is still a lot of development going on both now and in the future.
I don't think there is really anything else to get out of that argument. I'd agree with you that it's a loss, or that it has lost some games, but I'm not going to speculate with you over how many actual games are cut and how many companies, because this is at the moment unsubstantiated rumor, and you're just spreading FUD with that kind of talk.
