{"id":1654,"date":"2009-08-25T06:26:52","date_gmt":"2009-08-25T11:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/08\/25\/the-times-interviews-kazuo-hirai-about-all-things-playstation\/"},"modified":"2010-06-05T09:54:30","modified_gmt":"2010-06-05T14:54:30","slug":"the-times-interviews-kazuo-hirai-about-all-things-playstation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/08\/25\/the-times-interviews-kazuo-hirai-about-all-things-playstation\/","title":{"rendered":"The Times interviews Kazuo Hirai about all things PlayStation."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found this interview from <em><a href=\"http:\/\/technology.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/tech_and_web\/article6808050.ece\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/technology.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/tech_and_web\/article6808050.ece', 'The Times');\" target=\"new\">The Times<\/a><\/em> via N4G.  There is nothing really new revealed, but I thought it was interesting that Sony is sticking with the 10-year plan thing.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In retrospect, do you wish you had packed less into the PS3?<\/p>\n<p>Had we done less, I think we\u2019d have gotten into a situation where, especially with the way technology ramps up, it would have been very difficult for us to embark on a 10-year life cycle with this particular console.<\/p>\n<p>I think that because of all the things we were able to pack into the platform \u2013 Blu-ray\u2019s a great example \u2013 we were able to make sure we could take advantage of some of the great services we are offering.<\/p>\n<p>Those things aren\u2019t possible if we didn\u2019t put that kind of power into the platform.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This plan may have worked with the PlayStation and PS2, but I have my doubts that this dubious plan can hold up for the PS3.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this interview from The Times via N4G. There is nothing really new revealed, but I thought it was interesting that Sony is sticking with the 10-year plan thing. In retrospect, do you wish you had packed less into the PS3? Had we done less, I think we\u2019d have gotten into a situation where, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2009\/08\/25\/the-times-interviews-kazuo-hirai-about-all-things-playstation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Times interviews Kazuo Hirai about all things PlayStation.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[39,9],"class_list":["post-1654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-ps2","tag-ps3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2771,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1654\/revisions\/2771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}