[Sony] P.H. - Fuck It I'm Out

[Sony] P.H. - Fuck It I'm Out (http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=1756 8)

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Sony's Phil Harrison Resigns, To Depart Feb. 29th

"Sony Computer Entertainment has announced that Worldwide Studios president Phil Harrison will be resigning from his post on February 29th, with SCEI president and group CEO Kazuo Hirai assuming his responsibilities on top of his current duties.

Sony notes that Harrison has been with Sony since before the launch of the original PlayStation after joining Sony Electronics Publishing in 1992. The company says he has "made a tremendous contribution to the company playing a strategic role in the launch of four PlayStation platforms," and was key in building relationships with other developers and publishers."

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http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=3341 2

GDC: Harrison admits frustration with Sony Japan
Matt Martin 00:57 (BST) 22/02/2008

"Too slow in accepting the idea of social gaming

Sony's Phil Harrison, head of worldwide studios for Sony, has expressed his frustration that the company's Japanese division was too slow at accepting the ideas of social gaming – a market now dominated by rival manufacturer Nintendo and its Wii console.

Sony Europe already had three products on the market designed specifically to encourage social gaming in the living room before the Wii was even released – the EyeToy, SingStar and Buzz – but Japanese execs didn't believe in the concept of families enjoying gaming together."

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I think he resigned because he was catching all the shit because sony's PR identity turned sour

theres really no issue with the console or the company itself, sales are even good. For some reason it went through a long period of internet-hate

piss poor submission. edited to make it a bit better, but dude, that was poor.

I said he quit, you're saying he got fired! :o

It didn't have much of anything to do with marketing, he was in the games department.

It's not a far leap to consider the possibility it had something to do with his earlier comments. The Japanese don't take too kindly to that kind of 'public feedback.'

er dude your post had crap from where you copied and pasted it from like "Comments" and things. And a crap title. So i put the title on from the place you link and then deleted the extra.

The title was stupid I know that.

the first comment is a news story... 3 days before this happened

What do you want, more context? It's hard to do with the current character limit.

er dude, you copy and pasted "comments" and other junk words from the original article. Pro tip, the summaries you should write yourself and don't copy and paste.