Phil Harrison is still in denial!

Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios President Phil Harrison was recently interviewed at D.I.C.E by Gamedaily.

Here are a few things they talked about that I have to comment on.

 

BIZ: That actually leads into my next question, because a lot of the analysts have been making a big deal out of the fact that retailers seem to continue to sell out of the Wii while PS3s are found in stock at more stores. What do you make of that?

 

PH: I think you should talk to the people who are running those stores. Talk to the people who run GameStop, talk to the people who run BestBuy, and they'll tell you that the demand is unprecedented and that they give us kudos for managing to keep a very sophisticated supply chain moving. What our competitors are doing I can't speak to but I know we are achieving our goals of keeping the market supplied and working closely with retailers to make sure they get informed about when supplies are coming in so that they can match their internal and external communications to store managers and consumers about when to buy a PS3. If that means that for Wednesday through Friday there were a few machines on a shelf in a store in Milwaukee, great!

Ok phil I have a question, since I can now find your console everywhere I go because of your "sophisticated supply chain" than why was the PS3 3rd in sales for the month of Jan according to the latest NPD numbers? the reason there are so many available isn't because of your  "sophisticated supply chain" it's because people are sick of your way of thinking, statements like "we would sell 5 million units even if there were no games", that just turns people off.

Also the reason you don't find a Wii is because the second one hits a shelf it is gone.  That is simply not happening with the PS3, you guys are so detached from the gaming community and you appear to be in such denial whether you want to admit it or not there is a problem and you guys need to open your eyes and listen to the community.

 

BIZ: A lot of gamers, including myself, enjoy the controller's motion sensing at times, but we still miss rumble. If gamers want it and are vocal enough, will Sony reintroduce the force feedback at some point?

 

PH: We have no plans to do so in the standard controller that ships with PlayStation 3. I believe that the Sixaxis controller offers game designers and developers far more opportunity for future innovation than rumble ever did. Now, rumble I think was the last generation feature; it's not the next-generation feature. I think motion sensitivity is. And we don't see the need to do that. Having said that, there will be specific game function controllers, potentially like steering wheels that do include vibration or feedback function—not from us but from third parties.

There is nothing better than playing a FPS and not knowing when your getting shot because your controller doesn't vibrate or I can't feel the controller shake when I drive over the rumble strips while racing, but who need that.  It is way more engaging to shack and tilt your controller because I always wanted to look really retarded while playing my favorite games.

Why don't you come out say it, say we didn't use rumble this time around because of a lawsuit with immersion and we are to stubborn to settle.