Alors ce sont deux choses différentes. Je vais essayer d'être clair.  
 
La garantie légale est bien de deux ans. Elle concerne les défauts qui existaient à l'achat (lors de la délivrance). Pendant 6 mois, si un dysfonctionnement survient, le défaut est présumé avoir existé lors de la délivrance. Après ces 6 mois, c'est au consommateur de prouver que le défaut existait lors de la délivrance.  
 
Ce que propose la Fnac, c'est une extension de la garantie contractuelle. Pendant tout ce temps, tu peux demander un échange ou une réparation de ta machine, sans avoir à prouver que le défaut existait lors de la délivrance. C'est beaucoup plus avantageux, mais évidemment ça a un prix

Interview: Sony's Phil Harrison on Home, LittleBigPlanet, Microtransactions, and Less Trickery
 
I haven't had the chance to sit down and transcribe this monstrous interview from GDC until now, but I spent 25 minutes in a tiny room with Sony Worldwide Studios president Phil Harrison. We talked about everything: LittleBigPlanet, Home, backwards compatibility.  
 
On that last point, he allayed my fears that my PS3 would be gimped when they switched over to software-enabled BC:
 
Wired News: I have a first-run PS3 in the US, with the Emotion Engine chip, and I love playing PS2 games on it. Is that functionality going to be killed with a future firmware update? Are they going to switch all the PS3s over to software emulation?
 
Phil Harrison: You can't switch it off.
 
That should be a relief to early adopters. The entire gigantic interview after the jump.
 
WN: Tell me about the history of LittleBigPlanet. Did you personally see Rag Doll Kung Fu and think, I've got to get these people?
 
PH: I can't take credit for that. It was one of my producers who knew what those guys were doing and had nurtured that relationship. And he brought them to us. Part of the role of the producer is to go out and nurture the relationships, for individuals who are currently occupied elsewhere but might want to come and work with us in the future, and that was indeed the case with the founders of Media Molecule is that they were gainfully employed at -- I guess I can say this -- Lionhead, and Criterion, and they came to us and said look, we're thinking of setting up on our own, we've brought this idea which we'd like to share with you, but we think it's too weird for you and we don't think you're going to like it. And I loved it. And I said not only is it not bad, it's great, and we want you to go for it even more.
 
The point where I got involved was after the initial contact had been made, but I was lucky enough to get the pitch from them, and I said, look: this is fantastic. We definitely want to work with you guys.  
 
WN: Are they now working collaboratively with Sony designers and producers?
 
PH: Yeah, we funded them, and they're working exclusively with us and they formed their company and hired some great people. I mean, they are the most amazing group to work with. Their output is phenomenal, their iteration speed is phenomenal. They're very experienced artists and designers, they might look a little unorthodox, but they really know what they're doing.
 
WN: As a player of this game, what kind of options do I have to change what's going on? Is it pretty much just that every object has a defined set of characteristics, or can I tweak things?
 
PH: You can tweak things.
 
WN: Give examples of what I might be able to do. Take the soccer ball. What could I do to the soccer ball to change the way it reacts?
 
PH: We are going to take a deeper dive on Little Big Planet probably in May, on the next Gamers' Day. Or maybe at E3 in July. And we'll take you through that in more detail. But there are ways to… think of an object being in certain classes: things that are spherical have certain spherical physical properties, things that are square kind of more square… you can see, you can change the shapes, you can extrude things, you can cut things out, you can blend things together. But you can also allocate behaviors to shapes as well. And that allows them to become alive. And that's where the really interesting gameplay comes from.
 
WN: I get the sense that what you're presenting to us, the fact that it's a soccer ball and an orange instead of just a sphere and a smaller sphere, is to get a sense of it in our heads immediately as to what the properties of those things are going to be. But are you going to be able to skin a sphere with whatever you want?
 
PH: That's what we showed you today.
 
WN: Oh, yeah, you could put the faces on [the orange]. But will you be able to totally change that?
 
PH: Yeah, totally, yeah.
 
WN: So the release plan was kind of laid out in the sense that there is a demo coming this year…
 
PH: That's not what I said. It'll debut on the PlayStation Network. And there will be a Blu-Ray disc release next year.
 
WN: Okay. At some point the words, I think it might have been in the press release that came afterwards, it said "demo."
 
Dave Karraker, director of communications: Yeah, that's what's in the press release.
 
PH: My bad.
 
WN: Okay. So the question is, what is meant by "demo"?
 
PH: It will be a commercial release. It will not be a free demo in the traditional sense.

WN: Is the content going to be identical on the download version versus the Blu-Ray version?
 
PH: No.
 
WN: Is the idea here to…
 
PH: Yes. [laughter]
 
WN: And will I be paid for my contributions?
 
PH: How did I know that was going to be your question? The possibility of that -- syndication of content -- is not lost on us.
 
WN: Obviously the video you showed was very much a mock-up of what it's going to be like to trade your stuff, that's not final --

PH: Yeah, that is the interface. There's a concept of a little planet where there are spaces on the planet and each space is a badge, a pin that goes onto the planet. And each one of those is a LittleBigPlanet level that's been created by somebody. We have this kind of idea of that growing as users add more and more.
 
WN: But that in the first couple of days is probably going to get stupidly huge. How do you filter out and manage and push the best -- besides simply user votes?
 
PH: We're going to have a number of different filters, and as you can see on that presentation, filters for recently added, most ranked… we're going to have some kind of way of recommending levels that we think are cool, we might have a "What's Hot" level design club where we have the best levels that have recently come on, or ones that the designers or team think are great. But ultimately it's all about empowering the community. We want the users to decide. Now that will involve a little bit of trial and error by users, but very quickly not only will the best levels get ranked to the top, but the best level designers will get recognized for their work as well.  So I think, and this is a good thing, it might be a little chaotic to begin with, but it'll form some structure of its own afterwards.
 
WN: What about offensive content, if somebody were to do something with the game you might not want people to see, is there going to be a system in place that'll shut that down/
 
PH: Yeah. Sure.
 
WN: So, moving on to Home. Obviously you can view all this information in the context of the game itself, but -- it looks like you're running high-definition video, it's processor-intensive, so you need to devote the PS3 to doing this exclusively. Is there a way to get this information within the context of a game -- press the PlayStation button and there's a list of my friends who are online, achievements -- er, trophies that I'm working on… is that going to go along with this?
 
PH: So, there are certain elements which are going to be unique to the Home experience, they'll stay inside the Home experience because that's the way they're being crafted. But Home sits on top of the PlayStation Network platform. So as new features are added to PlayStation Network, they will not only be available inside Home, they can also be exposed inside other games as well.
 
WN: So what features will not be exclusive to Home?
 
PH: We'll come back to you on that. The roadmap for the platform is very well-defined internally but we haven't shared that specifically.
 
WN: This represents a change in position for Sony, because when I talked to Jack Tretton before the PS3 launch, he said that Sony had no, they had no interest in pursuing at that point a pan-platform system that ranked achievements in games. So why the change in attitude towards this idea?
 
DK: I can preface that. What he said was that we had no intention of mimicking Xbox achievements. We recognize that gamers see that as important, but we weren't going to simply replicate that exact system on the PS3.
 
WN: Well, the idea, I think the quote was "pan-platform": that individual games could do it, like Resistance did that, and I think what he really said was if I'm playing SOCOM, I don't care what happens in Madden.  
 
DK: What he was getting at was the total score, so I've got this great score of 1200, but I've only gotten it playing sports games and I'm gonna play a shooter with you.
 
PH: And I think he's spot-on. The beauty of trophies, and the fact that they're expressed in 3D in your own hall of fame is a great way of individualizing the experience and allowing your friends to see it as well. And I think that what we're doing here with Home, what we've announced today with Home is totally compatible with what Jack has said.
 
WN: So the idea of displaying 3D trophies, that might be an example of something displayed in Home, but then across the PlayStation Network, that might be expressed differently in other applications?
 
PH: I’m not sure I follow the question.
 
WN: Where I could press a button during a game and my list of achievements in that game opens up. It's not just trophies that appear in Home.
 
PH: We don’t use the word "achievements…" [laughter]
 
WN: I'm sorry. You're very on-message. That's good.
 
PH: Let me show you something so you can get a sense of this, because we didn't have time to go into details. [boots up Home on PS3 in room] When you come back to the Cross Media Bar, you can see that we have this Home icon. But also, underneath it you can see we have Favorites and Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame icon lets you jump straight into Hall of Fame, you don't have to go into Home to get there. And this is where what you just described will be exposed.
 
Inside Favorites, you'll create bookmarks, shortcuts to the spaces you want to visit most often with your buddies. So it could be that you like hanging out in the SOCOM barracks room, something like that. You just bookmark it, and that will appear as a long list of thumbnails in that area. Next time you log into PS3 you can dive straight in there. Your personal apartment will appear there as well.
 
WN: And speaking of that, one of the things I wanted to ask was how do you get one of those big houses?
 
PH: What we wanted to show today was the sense of progression: this is the basic one, this is a more advanced one -- not necessarily the most advanced one, because it'll continue to grow from there. But users will be able to upgrade by purchasing new items, by being gifted new items from games that they purchase, and from buying items that we provide into the network ourselves as the kind of benefactor of everybody in the world. So to get the best, biggest apartment users will most likely have to buy it through microtransactions. I'm not going to get to you on your next question, which is how much is that going to be?
 
WN: How much is that going to be?
 
(silence)
 
WN: That's interesting because as we've seen with other platforms, there's a really fine line that needs to be walked between giving people extra content and making them feel like they're being ripped off forwards and backwards. How do you balance out, what's the value proposition to somebody, why do I want to buy a bigger house? What's that really going to do for me?
 
PH: We believe that users want to express themselves by physical objects that they own within the universe. Home allows people to expand and customize their space so they can invite their friends round, they can hang out with their friends in their space, they can have premium items in their space like pool tables or arcade machines, and that allows people to say, you know what, I'm going to hang out at Chris' place because he's got some cool art on the walls, or a cool patio, or he's just got the new Mount Fuji view. I think there are really compelling reasons to invest your money in fully tricking out your space.
 
Now, it's hard for me to answer your question fully without telling you how much. Because it's difficult for you to get a sense. We think pricing should be from this much [makes a tiny hand gesture] to this much [opens hands wide] and everything in between.
 
WN: You're talking about personalizing this as much as possible. Are users going to be able to create their own content? Can I make a shirt for my character, draw it?
 
PH: Come back in May, and we'll show you some stuff in that area. We wanted to show Home today, and announce it in a way that everybody could get the basic message. But you can clearly see -- I can tell that you get it -- how this could expand over time. Most of the answers to your questions that I could probably give are, "Yes, that's on the list." The list is incredibly long. And it's our job to prioritize it.
 
WN: Moving on to Singstar, what labels do you have signed on?
 
PH: We work with pretty much every record label that there is. We have done over 40 SKUs now, US, all European countries, we've worked with majors, worked with independents, worked with artists directly.  Sony BMG, Universal, Warner, EMI…
 
WN: Are they all signed on to the idea of downloadable content?
 
PH: We are in advanced discussions with our music partners.
 
WN: Okay. As far as the video playback in Home, what formats are going to be supported? Is it going to be digital video that you have on a memory stick? Or DVDs, Blu-Ray…
 
PH: Not DVD, not Blu-Ray because those are copy protected. Any content which is open standard and not copy-protected on your hard drive or memory stick is supported.
 
WN: And I'll be able to invite my friends over and say, sit in my place and we're going to watch something on my big screen TV.  
 
PH: Exactly as we showed today.
 
WN: What is going to happen with getting that content up there? Are you going to have to sit there and upload that content to your servers?
 
PH: It's streamed peer-to-peer to other users.
 
WN: Okay. What about -- I wanted to ask about you using the PlayStation 3 to give your presentation. Is this an official switchover? Is Powerpoint being phased out?
 
DK: What's Powerpoint? Who makes that? [laughter]
 
PH: It was a liberating experience to be able to jump from a slide straight into [a video] really quick. It's a great way of showing it. The one part of the equation that I didn't control was the video switching, which is where we had our little snafu. That wasn't me, that was someone sitting at a desk.  
 
WN: Well, that speaks to the usefulness of using a PS3 for the presentation in the first place, because when the video wasn't switching over, you could just swap back to the first PlayStation and load up Home on that. Which for me, having seen the event last night, was like, "Oh, they're not engaged in any trickery here. This is actually…"
 
DK: No more trickery! That's our motto for 2007.
 
PH: If you write that, that will make me feel so much better about the snafu, because I hated that.
 
WN: I will write that.  
 
PH: That will make my day. Because while we would never deceive you, we wanted to make sure that you get a sense of what we're doing. Last night, I thought went great -- so polished that I thought you might even suggest that there was some subterfuge.  
 
WN: The other thread that I wanted to follow up on about Home was the publishers adding their own spaces. How is that working -- is that something where you're just so into this that you're telling publishers, create your space and we'll host it for free, or is this a thing where they're basically paying Sony to be a part of it?
 
PH: Forgive me for not sharing all the business models with you in this forum. But we have recently started very detailed discussions with our third-party partners about the potential of Home, and I'm pleased that their reaction was as positive as your reaction and others' today. So we're looking forward to working with our partners on that.
 
WN: Because it seems like a lot of this is a good advertising venue for you guys. The lobbies are plastered with advertisements. Do you think that is going to draw any pushback from players, who are like, I just want a virtual world to live in, I don't want a giant billboard feeding me advertising constantly?
 
PH: I think you're absolutely right, I think we do need to be sensitive to it, I think we are sensitive to it. And that's why users can customize their space in their own private apartment, and that's the environment they control, and they are masters of their domain. Not in the Seinfeld sense of the word.  
 
WN: I think at this point, what do you see as the PS3's biggest challenge going forward, after a holiday season that's put you guys at third place in the console race? What do you feel needs to happen from the software side?
 
PH: Sorry to sound like a broken record, but measure this over a ten-year cycle and not over a three-month cycle. PlayStation 3 has got all the things that we need in order to maintain not only our market leadership but also our growth in the entire industry. We've got the hardware, we've got the software, we've got the network services, we've got the multiple media offerings. I'm very comfortable.
 
WN: Then what's going on? If all those pieces are in place, why is it not performing to the level you thought it would?
 
PH: We've outsold our preceding platforms for the same time frame, PS1 and PS2, both of which went on to sell more than 100 million units each. We have great momentum in the marketplace, in Japan and in the US and in Europe where we're shipping in just a couple weeks' time. We're shipping over a million units into the European market, which we've never had that on Day One going into PAL markets before.
 
WN: This is what I mean about you being very on message. And actually speaking of that, one of the things that you had said prior to launch was that backwards compatibility was a "core value," that you were building a platform with PS3 and that it was so important. But now there's a dialing back on the amount of titles that are going to be backwards compatible with PlayStation 3. How do you reconcile that statement of purpose with what's going on right now?
 
PH: Well, there's a huge amount of games that are available for PlayStation 1 and PlayStation 2. The vast majority of games that people want to play are going to be compatible on PlayStation 3. So I stand by what I've said. I think there's been some confusion in the marketplace about the numbers, but on March 23rd when we launch in Europe there are going to be over a thousand games playable from PS2.
 
WN: I have a first-run PS3 in the US, with the Emotion Engine chip, and I love playing PS2 games on it. Is that functionality going to be killed with a future firmware update? Are they going to switch all the PS3s over to software emulation?
 
PH: You can't switch it off.
 
WN: Are the American PlayStation 3s going to remove the EE/GS chip in future iterations?
 
PH: I have no idea.
 
DK: We have no announcements regarding that.
 
 
http://blog.wired.com/games/2007/0 [...] sonys.html

La pub demarre le 17 mars, je vais essayer de vous faire une news la-dessus.

Sony Computer Entertainment France, relaye le lancement européen de la très attendue PLAYSTATION 3 le 23 mars 2007. C'est à partir du 17 mars que les premières images de la campagne TV envahiront les écrans.  
 
La campagne publicitaire a été conçue pour ressembler à la PLAYSTATION 3 : divertissante, interactive et évolutive. ?en un mot vivante. C'est comme cela que l'on peut définir au mieux cette console  incomparable.  
En effet, la PLAYSTATION 3 offre la technologie Blu-Ray qui permet de profiter des jeux et des films en Haute Définition, le processeur Cell permettant les réactions de la console en temps réel, une capacité de stockage de 60 giga, l'accès à internet, etc...  
Au vu de tous ces éléments, « This is living » s'est imposé naturellement comme le leitmotiv de cette console et de la campagne.  
 
Le groupe TBWA a alors imaginé une campagne construite comme une mosaïque autour de toutes les interprétations de « This is living » que ce soit en presse, TV, web, cinéma, etc...  
 
« Nous sommes très fiers de ce film. Il permet à la marque de reprendre la parole, ce que nous n'avons pas fait depuis longtemps. En même temps il est une véritable allégorie de ce que représente la PLAYSTATION 3 et l'illustration de son claim « This is Living », soit? c'est ça la vie ! » déclare Nathalie Dacquin, directrice du Marketing de SCE France.  
 
Les spots TV mettent en scène différents personnages résidants dans un hôtel mystérieux. Il y a Bubba - le réceptionniste, le lieutenant Kovac - un ancien mercenaire, Bruce Leghorn - présentateur TV déchu, Cherry - future starlette, Plato - un footballeur de talent, Hot Dog et Lucia -un couple de criminels romantiques et Keiji - énigmatique personnage...  
 
Ils vivent tous leur propre destin au sein de cette hôtel et nous vivons avec eux en découvrant des éléments sur leur passé, en suivant leurs aventures, en écoutant leur définition de « this is living »,?.  
 
La campagne TV débute le 17 mars par du teasing 15 secondes.  
La révélation de 90 secondes se fera le 22 mars à 20h30 sur toutes les chaînes.  
Une vague 30 secondes suivra durant 10 jours.  
 
Le plan média TV prévoit 20 chaînes qui diffuseront 3 formats différents (15, 30 et 90 secondes) touchant 60 millions de contacts et 400 GRP.  
 
http://www.playfrance.com/news-com [...] rance.html