PS3 Informer

Sony's Harrison talks PS3 controller, pricing

Sony exec. Phil Harrison talked extensively about the PS3 in a recent interview with GamePro. In the interview, he mentions that the 20GB model will still support playback of Blu-Ray movies, talks about the controller, the importance of the HDD, backwards compatibility, and interoperability between the PS3 and PSP. Here are a few excerpts from the full interview.

"Both machines have Blue Ray disc as standard. Both machines play Blue Ray disc movies as standard. Both machines will play Blue Ray disc movies as HD. The only difference is that the high end machine uses a more convenient digital interconnect called HDMI which is a digital standard and the 20 GB unit uses HD component which is an analog standard. The picture quality is fantastic."

"[The PS3 boomerang controller] was always a design concept. If you look at our controller design R&D group in Japan since 1994, in an area of their office they probably have hundreds of design concepts for controllers and [the boomerang] is just one of them... We can now do with this controller what human beings do anyway which is move the controller around when they play games."

"If the developer wrote the game according to our technical requirements checklist, we will have what we believe will be almost perfect backwards compatibility. There will be some exceptions, there always are, but we believe those will be very few and far between. Even less so than we saw from PSOne to PS2."

"With the PSP you've seen that, over time, the operating system has been upgraded to include many new features and functionalities and capabilities and we will do the same regarding the PS3. We will see the two devices become much more interoperable both at a media level, allowing content from one to the other, and at the applications level, where games for the PS3 will have a PSP component and vice versa."