A Crazy Man at the Helm

Some news days in the gaming world can be painfully slow, so thank god that Sony bigwig Kaz Hirai, best remembered for failing to get you excited about Ridge Racer, has lost his goddamn mind, providing a double-shot of crazy in a recent Official PlayStation Magazine interview. These two articles can be summed up by Kaz claiming that, despite lagging behind Microsoft and both being left completely in the dust by Nintendo, Sony is the industry leader, mostly because Hirai feels Nintendo doesn't count. Also the PlayStation 3 is intentionally hard to develop for, because if it was easier everybody would be making games for it. Somehow, in his fractured perception of reality, this is a benefit.

I'm calling it right now, on Tuesday, January 20th 2009 at 5:31 PM that tomorrow's Penny-Arcade strip will be about this exact topic.

EDIT: Or maybe not, now that I have reviewed the situation and recalled that Penny-Arcade is in the middle of a rare story arc, but this seems insane enough to interrupt the proceedings.

-K.