S O: How do you respond to statements made by people who say that you have appropriated Nintendo's idea of motion sensitive controllers?
 
Harrison basically says that it's not as simple as that, and he provided an example on how Sony first used real 3-D technology in 1994 and when N64 came on the market in 1996, no one was asking Nintendo the same questions -- the quote actually says "We didn't say, Nintendo you've used our idea!" He then says something about how innovation is driven by building upon technological advancements along with cost efficiencies, etc.
 
 
S O: But is it coincidence that two consoles with motion sensitive controllers come to market at the same time...
 
Harrison: We've been working on our controller for a long time and we're sure Nintendo has been working on their controller for a long time as well. The difference between our strategy and those of all others is that ours is built upon the Dual Shock controller, the de-facto industry standard for video game controllers. Then someting about how from selling 400 million controllers they have defined the standard by which people interact with game consoles (the man-machine interface). But now we've given this controller a new dynamic - montion sensing technology.
 
 
SO: How many games in the first year will use this new functionality?
 
Harrison: I expect that every game will use this functionality. We move the controller all the time when we play already, but now we can control how we play when we move the controller along with using the analog sticks as normal as well. That is a feature that only the Playstation 3 will be able to provide.
 
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SO: Live anywhere question... Speaking directly about online, MS has announced "Live Anywhere" a plan that connects Windows PCs, Xbox 360 and mobile phones. Something about how perhaps how will Sony do this when they don't have as large a hold on the PC market as Microsoft has.  
 
 
Harrison: No, I don't think so and I also don't believe that the consumer will buy into it. When someone has a video game console as their primary method for playing video games, then that's all they will use it for. We believe that the PS3 will allow the people to play our games, show our films, browse the Web and perform other PC functions. The PS3 is a computer. We don't need the PC (to be successful in our online plans -- based on context).

Déception pour les amateurs de vidéo, nouvelle victoire pour les studios de cinéma, HD-DVD et Blu-Ray embarqueront un encodage régional (équivalent des zones mondiales du DVD)

Details have been reported by Gamefront:
 
Tetsu Tsukamoto who has previously worked on FFX-2 is taking care of weapons design.
The scenario is complete at 80%.
Vehicles will be in the game and the team is considering to use the motion detection functions of the PS3 pad.
The two yellow strips on the girl's left shoulder express a rank and a social status.
There will be usual exploration of cities and conversations with non playing characters.
The woman in the trailer is probably not the main character however the developers want to give a prominent role in the game to a strong, independent woman.

Assassin's Creed guys (Nicholas Cantin and Alex Drouin). It's in Dutch, so translation mine:
 
OPM: How's your experience with the storage media of the PS3, the HDD and the BluRay disc? And do you have any comparable experience with HD-DVD technology?
 
M.M.: Our focus is 100% BluRay, so I cannot compare with HD-DVD. I can only say that the new BluRay disc format is truly awesome. The capacity is immense, and the Data Transfer Rate is way beyond what we are used to. And that's really important, because Data Streaming (OPMED: where the console constantly loads new data from disc) is truly the only way to push next-gen games to the limit. The Playstation 3 HDD is something that we have so far given less attention to, because it hasn't been certain all that long yet that it will be standard on every console. Decreasing load-times by copying a part of the game to the HDD is one possibility, though it doesn't matter all that much for a streaming game like ours. But there are tons of other applications, such as the possibility to as it were record your whole game, to be able to watch a replay of it later on. We intend to use the HD optimally, but how, I can't tell yet currently.
 
Also interesting is this question:
 
OPM: What do you think about the performance of the graphics chip, the Nvidea RSX?
 
M.M.: The RSX-chip is also a beast. Not only is it incredibly fast, but just like in the PS2 you can have each Cell-core cooperate with the RSX independently. Other graphics chips also have decent Noraml Mapping- and Shader-capabilities, but RSX adds a lot of additional specialised filters and possibilities, leading to fabulous results in the graphics department. And what is really convenient is that Nvidia has been a market-leader for years, and everyone knows the technology and way of thinking through-and-through. This decreases the learning process considerably.