Xbox Execs Congratulate Sony's Shuhei Yoshida On BAFTA Award

This man is Legendary and fully deserves the award.

Well deserved award for a man who’s done a lot for Playstation.

Hopefully Jim Ryan never gets it because that man has trashed everything I loved about the brand.

Well deserved indeed.

As for the battle with Sony, that's not Shu's Sony, that is Jim Ryan's Sony. I doubt Shu would be BS'ing the industry, going out of his way as a personal vendetta to block a deal that clearly benefits the Gamers/Consumers - and would sign a Deal guaranteeing CoD releases on their Platform to ensure that they can still 'Sell' CoD, still 'profit' from a 3rd Party Game on 'their' system and certainly wouldn't put Sony in a 'vulnerable' position where a single Game could 'break' their entire Gaming division - a Dominant position with 'Loyal' fans, with Award Winning Studios, With Award Winning IP's and 'exclusives' that EVERY Playstation gamer cites as their 'main' reason for buying into Sony's ecosystem. Its 'never' been CoD because they can play on Xbox/PC, its ALWAYS Uncharted, God of War, Last of Us, Spider-Man, Horizon, Infamous, Killzone, Resistance etc - games that helped the PS3 'beat' the 360 despite not getting CoD DLC until 4weeks after Xbox and Xbox having all the marketing too.

There was Always respect between Shu and Phil. I don't think Jim Ryan has ANY respect for Gamers (they are there to feed his bank balance) and to 'force' them into their ecosystem to 'fuel' that. I have completely lost ANY respect for Sony in recent years and feel they are 'pushing' me away from their Platform more than encouraging me to play. The 'deal' with Hogwarts for example put me off buying the Game rather than feel 'forced' to play on PS5 or 'miss out' on Content. Its having an Adverse effect.

MS's business strategy on the other hand is 'refreshing' and much more 'Consumer' friendly - never 'forced' to play on Xbox or 'Miss out' (I can play 'anywhere' via Cloud, Play on PC at 'higher' PQ/Frame Rates or on two tiers of Console to suit my 'Budget' or display - no point buying a 'Series X' for my 1080/60p Bedroom TV - not going to 'benefit' from 4k or 120fps so don't 'need' to spend $500.

The man who sank Matrick's vision in 40 seconds! There should be a second award just for that.

Congratulations Shu, fully deserved. A true great

Absolute legend. Such a shame he had to hand over SIE to Don Matrick 2.0

Amazing. A recognition to a great and beloved man.

@NEStalgia Matrick sank Matrick's vision. Shuhei simply wrote the eulogy, and it was an epic eulogy.

I LOLed at that, it's true enough!

@Tharsman @NEStalgia Sony doing the opposite of Microsoft was an important part of Mattrick's vision flopping. I think a lot of people would've reluctantly accepted Mattrick's vision if Sony were doing the same thing just so they could play the full CoD experience (2013 was the end of Nintendo getting CoD and Nintendo platforms never got all the DLC so Wii U wasn't a suitable alternative for CoD players).

@Grumblevolcano Very true as well! And rumor says Sony was going to do the exact same and that was a last minute change in response to Matricks flop largely from Shu (and probably Kaz.)

@NEStalgia I honestly don’t believe that rumor. If it was true, launch day PlayStation 4 would had been on the same boat as Xbox One needing a day one patch to work offline at all, because tons of units were ready manufactured, formatted with their firmware and boxed in a warehouse.

I would believe someone leaked bad info to Microsoft about Sony pursuing the same tactic. If I recall, Xbox internally also thought they had the upper hand in RAM capacity, something Sony had already bumped up by the time they started manufacturing.

IF Sony ever had a plan to do a digital online always on disk DRM garbage, they scrapped it before they started manufacturing, not as reaction of XBox’s plan being poorly reserved.

@Tharsman It's very believable because none of these polices are determined alone, publishing partners are included, and we're very likely the ones pushing for it to begin with as they were at war with used games for years.

You raise a good point about already made machines, but were they already made? Just because ms had a particular supply chain doesn't mean Sony did it the same way. Either in terms of having already started production or in terms of production having already been flashed and boxed. They may fab hardware, ship it, then flash firmware at a regional packaging facility from bulk containers for example.

They had 5 months from that day to launch day. 4 month before they shipped. It's very unlikely they'd started mass production yet at e3. Microsoft otoh had a LOT of changes to make beyond drm itself in the os by launch (kinekt) and likely didn't have the software changes available to flash until last minute.

@NEStalgia everyone manufactures stuff way way ahead of launch. It’s not realistic to do at the last minute, you can’t even get a decent failure rate until you start mass-manufacturing, and you need to know that way in advance in case something needs changing.

I am not saying they might had not considered or discussed it, but I highly doubt they had it on the table at the time of the Xbox reveal fiasco.

Also, PS4 still needed a day one patch, without it you could not play online, remote play, broadcasting and other online features. All online functionality was basically locked until patched, but you still could play games offline.

Edit: also, developer partners sign NDAs over these kind of things. They could be in deep legal trouble if they shared that info with Sony competitors.

As it stands it sounds like guessing, and without any evidence I opt to believe it just wasn’t the plan. We do have evidence that PS4 dev kits had less ram than the mod revealed at E3, because we heard from developers after the fact how much many of them lobbied for the ram to be increased.

@Tharsman IIRC the PS5/XSXS manufacturing for launch was only started a few months before launch. IDK when PS4/X1 was, and PS5/XSX was a strange launch, but they really did wait until last minute and still had a normal "launch" (that then rapidly deteriorated after that.)

The irony of course is that if there was any entity that knew for certain the early plan, it would be Activision.......

Don't really care who congratulated who, also don't care about awards either, but it was interesting to read about him getting an award. I don't really know anything about him other than that he was president of Sony studios. Anyone who was in charge from PS3 and PS4 times, I think did a good job, except the person who introduced us to pay for online multiplayer. Only thing I didn't like at the time.