Three Speech puts some questions to Ray Maguire, SCE's UK managing director…
Alas, we didn't make it out to E3. So we thought we'd catch up with Sony Computer Entertainment's UK managing director, Ray Maguire, in order to find out what he made of it. This is what he said:
Q: What interesting stuff came out of Sony's press conference at E3, Ray?
Ray Maguire: Jack Tretton, in some detail, showed how the PlayStation franchise is operating on a series of ten-year cycles. He showed the PlayStation operated for ten years, and how the PS2 is still alive and well, albeit in different territories at this point.
The gamble that Ken Kutaragi took with the PlayStation 3 was to put in a high level of technology, so it has been a bit slow to market in some respects, but we're now seeing how people are starting to understand how the technology works.
Benjamin Rivers has suggested that it is “totally possible” for two of his titles — Alone With You and Home — to be ported to Nintendo Switch.
I recently published an article about beating my Steam backlog by getting organised and the first game I’ve completed with this new approach is Home.
I chose Home not because of its production values or reviews, but because, well, it’s short. I needed a game to start my new approach on the right foot and read that Home takes less than two hours to beat.
Whatever my reasons for finally installing Home, I found it to be an enjoyable yet flawed title.
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