14 DAY TRIAL // Yes folks, according to this interview of Sony Computer Entertainment's president, Kaz Hirai found in the latest issue of Official PlayStation Magazine, the fact that game developers have to take pills to reduce the headaches due to coding for the PS3 is a good thing! Basically, Hirai expects everyone to fully appreciate the PS3 "four, five or six years down the line." And Microsoft and Nintendo are just supposed to sit with their arms crossed and watch the PS3 grow, right...?
"If you look back at the commentary we received when we launched PS2, there was a lot of talk to the effect that 'It's very difficult to program for' and 'It's easier on a Dreamcast'. It's happened before," Hirai told OPM, according to gamesradar.com. SCE's president admits that their machine "is a more complex animal for developers to work with," as the source writes, comparing it with rivals Xbox 360 and Wii. "If they came back and told me, 'PS3? We can do this in a heartbeat,' that would be worrying because what it is telling me is that we're not pushing the envelope from a technology standpoint."
And here comes the best part of the interview. Hirai claims (like we didn't hear this a million times before) that the PS3 has been intentionally engineered to withstand its opponents' wrath in the long run and that gamers will see the fruits of their hard labour as far as six years from now: "The power that we've packed into PS3 will really manifest itself in software titles that come up four, five or six years down the line."
How can a company president make such a statement and then expect people to still want a PS3? It's like saying "Buy this banana seed now, plant it, water it and in six years you'll have big yellow bananas to eat for breakfast!" Well, maybe this is a little overstretched but I think you got the point.