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Phil Harrison interviewed by Pro-G
Sony’s own Phil Harrsion has appeared in a post-GDC interview with Pro-G. In the interview they ask him questions about Home, Killzone 2 and the mysterious Afrika.
Phil talks about the beta and how the private beta is underway. The public beta will now be launched in April in the US and Europe and “If all goes well” Home will be officially launched in Autumn sometime. He also mentions two games, Afrika and Killzone 2 [PS3]. Afrika will not “be about killing and it’s not about running around the environment shooting elephants and hippopotami” but a whole new, interesting gaming experience. As for Killzone 2, GDC wasnt intended to be a “Deep-Dive” into Killzone, thats being saved for E3 in July. We’re looking forward to that then. :p
Click the jump to read the whole interview.
Epic Games boss thinks highly of the Playstation 3
In an interview with gamesindustry.biz shortly after Phil Harrison’s Keynote speech,
Epic Games’ Boss, Mark Rein has stated that he still believes “Sony is still the one to beat”. He states that “Sony is still a hard brand to beat”. He also made a comment on comparison between the battling consoles.
“The Wii is an impressive piece of hardware, but as you get the visually more impressive games coming out for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, as the marketing dollars get turned up to support the larger quantities of machines, with potential price drops and titles like Singstar which appeal to the larger market… Those machines will ignite, they’ll take off, and they’ll sell just fine.”
lol grphx. The Wii fans will flame him so badly for hinting that graphics is the future. Though we all know it is *rollseyes*
In his opinion, the “big titles” are what are going to move the PS3’s. He also commented on the old “Playstation Home is a Mii rip-off” thing;
“I read on a developer forum, one of the guys who worked on PlayStation Home said they started designing it in 2004. So when people say things like, ‘Oh, they announced this new piece of software! They just copied so-and-so!’. What, you think they just made it last week in their basement?”
Haha. Im not sure how i felt about him in the past, but now he’s a good guy. XD
The full interview with Mark Rein will be published on GamesIndustry.biz next week.
Source: GamesIndustry.biz
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