On Home’s Delays

We built a grandiose picture for what Home can and will be and we painted ourselves into a corner, not only in terms of when it would be available but in terms of what it would be.

Because we’re a creative company and we have a lot of different voices we don’t always filter everything before we make promises and that was true more than anybody with Kutaragi-san. I mean there was no stopping him. While that’s exciting, it always leaves you very open and very vulnerable to criticism if you can’t deliver.

On Home’s Future

We know how to develop software. We know how to develop hardware. I think we’ve had a pretty good education with services and firmware upgrades.

Home is not a software title and its not necessarily a service so it sat within the studios group when it really needed a lot of hardware engineering support. We were guilty of a little naiveté about how simple it would be to develop Home as if we could follow the same path we use to develop games. It took us a while to figure out what it was and how you put it together.

I would rather ship it two years from now and have it be populated with a lot of good stuff and let the chips fall where they may from a competitive standpoint then to open up a ghost town. We’ve got to do a good job of populating Home. The shell is there but we’ve got to get all the different destinations from the third party publishers to really open in style. You wouldn’t open a mall with  only two stores

But the fact that third parties are making significant investments in Home is the best proof that they see that there’s something to be excited about.

There is some expense involved, no question about that but I think given the opportunities that Home presents, most of the publishers who have gotten an inside look at it feel like it’s a great investment to make

On Signing More Movie Studios

They’re looking for a better mousetrap than Apple. They know that every deal they sign takes a little bit of [Apple’s] leverage away so they’re holding out for everything they can get. So studio negotiations take time and then actually building the infrastructure and making sure it effectively works is the other thing that takes more time.