Sony’s CEO has given us a new candidate for the worst.quote.ever. from a usability point of view:

“We don’t provide the ‘easy to program for’ console that (developers) want, because ‘easy to program for’ means that anybody will be able to take advantage of pretty much what the hardware can do, so then the question is, what do you do for the rest of the nine-and-a-half years?”

–Kaz Hirai, CEO, Sony Computer Entertainment

So let me get this straight—the plan is to make a platform that is intentionally difficult for developers so that it can buy Sony time to make the next version of their console that will be hard to use so that it can buy Sony time to make the next version of…

I’ll have to file this one away in the long term memory for the next time some project I’m working on gets criticism for complexity or poor usability: “actually, this is intentionally difficult so that you don’t notice it’s taking a lot of time for the next version to come out.”

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