Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: "Nick Ferguson" Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english Subject: George (and Bill Clinton) can do what they want IMHO Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 22:09:16 +0800 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 48 Message-ID: <6uavo5$bdk11@chuka.playstation.co.uk> References: <1dftbhz.xf1coz1xdfhz4N@a1-88-137.a1.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: 202.82.244.158 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Hiya - here's my ideas on the subject. If you don't give a toss, please don't read! Whatever you might feel, DEnnis, I think George has the right to write whatever he wants on his page. And I don't think that acknowledging that the vast majority of games at ECTS were not very exciting, nor that Nintendo had some very impressive products, is in any way detrimental to Sony. I mean, we're all grown-ups (largely) - we all know what the software industry is *really* like, more or less, yeah? So what if George works for Sony and gives them a bit of stick? The Sony stand *was* damn hot and the big games were not too exciting - Bust A Groove and Tekken 3 I was playing back in March/April for God's sake! Still, there was a fair bit of interesting Sony stuff if you looked :-) Do you really think George should praise Sony if he thinks differently? That's not exactly 'free speech' is it? Answering "dumbass" questions all day would drive me nuts, although I'm not sure *I'd* post that sort of remark, knowing the likely reaction (that has taken 2 days to arrive) ;-) And it's true George - it's your job to answer the dumb questions, isn't it? I think "freedom of speech" might also mean the ability to say stuff that you know will annoy people even if it IS what you feel, and not get jumped on for it. Hey, you might not like George's tone but this *is* a democracy. My issue with George's NY price theory (ie comparing it to Intel) is that whereas Intel are out to make a buck, I thought the NY was Sony's 'gesture' to the gaming/amateur programming community. Sony aren't exactly making any money running the program, are they? So if you want the NY to be available to as many people as possible and get a real flood of talent working on it, why has it taken 18 months for the price to get this low? Sarah told me that the price cuts etc come directly from SCEI so it's really not their (SCEE's) fault, but I do think I have a valid question: if Sony wanted everyone who wanted a Yaroze to get one and get cracking at being a mini-Miyamoto, why didn't they launch it at a lower price to start with? And why no price cut in the US - where they really need it! Ah well, don't get mad at me DEnnis :-) But I don't have a problem with George being both a SCEE staffer and also a person who gets just as fresh/pissed off with stuff as the rest of us. Nick F (One of George's "people who use our net connection to view what ever they felt like it" I left it on an N64 fan site - obviously I'm immature and thought that was funny. At least *I* didn't try and register a NY to Waverley House. And I only took 1 pen.) :-)