PlayStation 3 Week had a chance to talk with Josh Robinson, the former Sony 3D artist who shook up the gaming media with a largely negative review of PS3 development. Robinson lost his job at Sony as a result of the article. Quite interesting interview.




You made some pretty big waves, at least in the gaming press, with your article about PS3 development. Tell us how your life has changed since that article, and what you’re working on now.

Let me first just say, all I really did was write a few paragraphs that gave my opinion on publicly released information. I never actually released any information. After reading my small article the reader is not any more informed about the PS3 than he was before the article. I didn’t reveal any tech info and I didn’t reveal different shipping plans. I’m still in awe at the whole uproar over what amounts to NO information.

When you wrote the article, did you expect your bosses at Sony to react in the way they did?

Absolutely not! I was pretty floored actually. Let me be very clear. I have a great relationship with Sony and their management. In fact I cannot say enough nice things about the CEO and the VP of the company. Both of those guys are great guys and way nicer to us lowly artists than they need to be. I didn’t want to cause any problems at all by writing the article. I had at least two Sony employees read the article before it was even posted. Even a producer at the company read it. We were all in agreement that I was not breaking NDA with what I was saying.

Read the whole interview at PlayStation 3 Week

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