Market peer pressure is a healthy thing for consumers. It keeps those nasty corporations in check from delivering us piles of crap upon which we dump our discretionary income. (As blind as The Light of Microsoft has made me, I’m sure the REASON we have such a solid console is because that big corporation needs to wear its Sunday Best to the church it just started visiting).
Game Informer had a chance to catch up with Phil Harrison of Sony fame in a recent interview at the D.I.C.E. 07 summit; I find Phil to be the most level and honest spokesperson for the company. He had this to say:
GI: You guys should be commended with constant updates to the PS3. PS2 playback wasn’t spot-on right away. Now that’s fixed. You’re always fixing things.
Harrison: I hope you give us credit for that, because that was something that we spoke over as a strategy, but now to see it take place in reality, I hope people don’t forget that was a big investment we’re making there.
GI: Well, it was very important, especially for me. There was all of this talk about the big update when the console hits Europe in March. You mentioned today, background downloads. Will that be part of it, and what are some of the other things that you have planned for that?
Harrison: The only thing I can talk about is that background downloading will be part of the 1.6 upgrade. There’s a bunch of other stuff, but Kawanishi-san would kill me if I was to reveal all of the details.
How ’bout them apples? I can tell you truthfully that I did several happy dances (and several since, however gratuitous) about this update to the 360 in their first dashboard update. I’m a full supporter of such an upgrade, and I am sure Sony fanboys the world over are marking March off in their calendars. Any other updates you’d like to see coming your way courtesy of Sony’s March firmware refresh?
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