Hirai not happy with Home

By Robert Purchese Published 8 November, 2007

Kitchen is messy, bin smells.

PlayStation big cheese Kaz Hirai has said he is personally not satisfied with the current version of Home.

He talked quite openly with Japanese magazine Famitsu (translated by 1UP) about it, and said it was so important that he had to be sure it was just right.

"If anything, we believe the delay would have a positive effect. I personally am not satisfied with the current version of Home," Hirai began.

"This is a very big project for the PS3 and we want to make sure that we deliver to our hearts content. We hope everyone will look forward to its spring release next year."

Hirai was also keen to show a more sensitive side - one that probably uses Vaseline Intensive Care - as he talked about his recent rise to power and how he has tried to do his best to please you since.

"Returning to Japan, I have done my best in the given limited amount of time. Not everything I envision has turned out 100 per cent, but we as a company have worked together towards our goals."

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  • drunkymonkey #1 5 years ago

    I'd be more inclined to look forward to home if indeed the dishes were always crowding the sink. Perfection creeps me out.

  • TheDudesRug #2 5 years ago

    Dont be a hippy, dishwashers are for the win. All the kids are talking about them and they seem pretty clued up.

  • quantumsheep #3 5 years ago

    My dishwasher's better than yours.

    /sets bait for dishwasher wars

    /watches carnage

  • OnlyMe #4 5 years ago

    No it's not. My dishwasher has GPS.

  • Zomoniac #5 5 years ago

    Hirai... uses Vaseline... to do his best to please you...

  • Vice.Destroyer #6 5 years ago

    No, no. Hirai uses vaseline on his sensitive part. So that he CAN please you.

  • Madafunkola #7 5 years ago

    I prefered the Dishwasher 64 rather than all this next-gen dishwasher rubbish. Until they bring out a dishwasher with full backward capacity I'm going to stick with what I have thank you very much!

  • zuljin #8 5 years ago

    @Madafunkola
    "Until they bring out a dishwasher with full backward capacity I'm going to stick with what I have thank you very much!"

    Pffft... Last gen clothes ftl...

  • Madafunkola #9 5 years ago

    @zuljin

    Clothes??? My Dishwasher washes dishes...

  • zuljin #10 5 years ago

    Erm...

    Only because its last gen!

    /Wonders if he got away with it

  • killest #11 5 years ago

    Hirai was also keen to show a more sensitive side - one that probably uses Vaseline Intensive Care, a playboy, and a box of tissues

    what????? :o

  • SBfistfun #12 5 years ago

    ^lol

  • Madafunkola #13 5 years ago

    @zuljin
    See this is the problem with teh current dishwasher market! The "next-gen" DishStation3 is being marketed on it's ability to clean these new fangled Hi-Def clothes thingies but the quality of it's dish cleaning is underwhelming. Then they go and make a new model that won't clean dishes that went in the DishStation 1 or 2... Honestly. I'm Glad I have the DishBox 360 and the earlier model DishStation3 so I can keep cleaning all my dishes forever!

    /snaps back to reality...
    Edited by Madafunkola at 08/11/07 @ 10:45

  • mkreku #14 5 years ago

    [link url=http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/news-15072-Diamonds+are+forever....html
    ]http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/news-150...[/link]

    I don't know, it has nothing to do with anything, but I thought it was cool.

  • zuljin #15 5 years ago

    Is she married to the washer?

  • bruuge #16 5 years ago

    I have a microwave!

  • Rirekon #17 5 years ago

    I read this as;
    "We've hyped Home too much and we can't deliver on it"
    Edited by Rirekon at 08/11/07 @ 12:31

  • Quak #18 5 years ago

    > I read this as;
    "We've hyped Home too much and we can't deliver on it"

    Since when has over-hyping and under-delivering on a product EVER stopped Sony from releasing anything? =S

  • JYM60 #19 5 years ago

    Better be out by march.

  • Stormflood #20 5 years ago

    I think it's probably the very generic/dull western style that grinds his gears. Too Sims, and not enough My Sims.

  • AOFanboi #21 5 years ago

    It's been ages since they announced a delay to next year.

  • Drakron #22 5 years ago

    "Better be out by march."

    ... 2009?

  • zedzee #23 5 years ago

    Sony are not Microsoft - they don't write complex networking code nor do they know much about setting up a network infrastructure. One only needs to look towards how poor the PS2 was supported for Network Play, in contrast with the original XBox to realise this.

    Sony do not have the programming ability to get something like this off the ground so quickly. And they're just now finding this out.

    They've never had to develop something in software as complex as Home, so I can appreciate them spending further time on it to get it right, because they've not grown this part of their business organically; it's been hired in and set-up. Again, you only need to hear speeches by the likes of Phil Harrison from E3'06 to realise this.

    What I DO NOT appreciate is the fact that they did not realise this WELL BEFORE the PS3 project reached fruition and became an actual product.

    To promise something, announce it and then delay it is unacceptable - especially in the current nexgen wars that the PS3 seems to be losing at the moment.

    Sony need to be doing things better, quicker or at least on time. And in this area they're failing their installed base VERY badly indeed.

  • JackB #24 5 years ago

    You see the PS3 is more like a fine dishwasher where the 360 is more like a sponge you would use to clean dishes. The PS3 is more powerful. It can clean more dishes much faster. Who would want a sponge when they could have a dishwasher?

  • dadrester #25 5 years ago

    Better be out by march.

    big phil reckons it already is out!

    ...

    bugger can't find the relevant link...

  • 3william56 #26 5 years ago

    Ugh! That dishwasher chick has only 2 toes on her right foot! Freeeeeeeeekkkkk!

    Sony Dishwasher: 7 motors, but no-one can get them working all at the same time, so spin rate iffy. Not compatible with most dishes, though promised fine china firmware upgrade coming late 2008.

    MS Dishwasher: only 3 motors, and very good at washing conventional white plates, but tends to break down every 3rd wash, and not able to wash anything with a colour or a pattern.

    Ninty dishwasher: Can only wash one dish at a time, operated by waving your hands in front of it, and only able to wash Mario pre-schooler tupperware from Japan.

  • kangarootoo #27 5 years ago

    "Ninty dishwasher: Can only wash one dish at a time"

    hehe

  • WinstonChurchill #28 5 years ago

    "You see the PS3 is more like a fine dishwasher where the 360 is more like a sponge you would use to clean dishes. The PS3 is more powerful. It can clean more dishes much faster. Who would want a sponge when they could have a dishwasher?"

    In my house, we have a dishwasher yet I always wash things by hand.

  • Ryze #29 5 years ago

    Wii is the sponge.

    360 is like having a one-legged Angelina Jolie to do your dishes.

    Beautiful, multi-functional, talented, almost perfect - but work her too hard for too long and she'll fall over without notice.

    /avoids incorporating 'red ring'

    With some slight modifications she'd be pretty much all we need, if not all that we want.

    I want them all, but the dishwasher can wait, eh?

  • erp #30 4 years ago

    I personally am not satisfied with the current version of Home.