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SCEA Boss Unhappy With PlayStation Leaks
SCEA president Jack Tretton has spoken of his annoyance that a number of Sony’s major E3 announcements were leaked ahead of the show.
“People don’t respect confidentiality in this industry,” he told CNBC. “It’s tough enough to keep a secret within your own company, much less when you speak to third parties."
As SCE president Kaz Hirai said when he officially unveiled PSP Go, the handheld was “the worst kept secret of E3,” having been revealed days earlier via a leaked movie featuring a Sony executive detailing the system’s features.
“This is an industry that has trouble focusing on today. We want to constantly talk about tomorrow,” added Tretton, who said that leaks make it hard to manage consumer expectations. “You have to prepare for people to know things in advance. The frustrating thing is they only know a part of the story and that opens up a lot of conjecture and misinformation that ultimately waters down the reality when you roll it out.”
Elsewhere in the interview Tretton discussed Sony’s upcoming motion sensing controller. He said the device will be supported by a wide variety of titles and could even be backwards compatible.
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It's a pretty unfortunate situation. For example, many people were highly critical of the graphics tech shown in the internal Last Guardian demo leaked a few weeks ago. When the public version was revealed at E3, it was much more polished, but by that point it was 'old news' and the game's overall reception may remain coloured by the lesser quality of the early reveal.
He should consider himself lucky that nobody leaked the price, or things would've really gone down much worse. The lack of a touch screen and the bloated price make it a non-starter for most people. PSP3000 sales will likely see in increase at the expense of Go sales, at least until "Go 1.5" is released.
The sad part is someone silly and foolish at SCEA or SCEE leaked this. What Sony shoudl do is only tell full details to people who NEED to know full details. There were likley people who knew about GO simply because Sony has too many management meeting with people that don't need to know everything.
Sony should send someone to Lockheed Martin's Advanced Development Program. These people have been doing hush-hush projects for years and likley know how to structure organaizations that need to 'build things' with thusands of people collaborating, yet can also keep secrets. Sony doesn't need to be as secure as 'The Skunk Works' but there are likley managment methods that can be adopted that reduce leaks.
It's hard to keep the existence of a portable system secret when you've got factories making them. Everyone in the company knows about them at that point.
What the f*ck is he talking about!?!
People don't respect confidentiality in the industry? Is he really that dense? Does he think we are?
Does he honestly believe that when a rumor starts, other organizations are going to say, "Lay off this one, Sal. Sony wants this kept secret."
This is also the guy who's company "squeezed" motion control, at the last minute, when the Wiimote was leaked. If you want to bitch about information theft, you might want to stop stealing information.
I don't think Mr Tretton is that worried about rumors, but when pictures of PSPgo were released before, somebody had definitely breached their confidentiality clauses.
Wake up & smell the roses, Jack - it's called business!!!
By "backwards compatible" he means using the wands for Sixaxis functions?