Posted on 02/24/2007 11:59:23 PM PST by PRePublic
PS3: difficult stories emerge in run up to Euro launch
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/games/archives/2007/02/13/ps3_difficult_stories_emerge_in_run_up_to_euro_launch.html
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More juicy perhaps, is the comment made on a blog named FreeRepublic.com, by EA employee Dr. Andrew Garrett: "My opinion - get the 360 and/or the Wii. Skip the PS3 unless there's a big change in the near future." You can read his full post here. Naturally, anti-Sony zealots are spinning this as 'EA says skip PS3', which means Dr Garrett is probably in a whole heap of trouble.
That's the problem with the modern videogame industry and the web - the two are utterly incompatible...
Blog culture is all about uncensored exposition, about the personal over the corporate. The videogame industry is obsessively secretive. It is almost impossible to get a developer to talk to you about games these days - unless they're pushing their own of course. And even then both your questions and their answers have to be vetted by the publisher's PR department. Information is controlled, opinion, where possible, is obliterated. It is possibly the same in all industries.
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Ping!
Arghh, we're now getting sucked into some sort of echo chamber vortex.
And an astute lesson on the reasons to keep internet profiles anonymous and walled off. Hope all can learn from this.
Of course you are right, FR is MUCH MORE THAN A "blog".
I was about to comment on the Lefty-Guardian calling this a mere: "blog".
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