Sony Employee Fired, Compared PS3 To 360

A former employee of Sony Online Entertainment has spoken out about how an online article criticizing the PlayStation 3 ended up getting him fired from the company.

In an interview with PS3week, former SOE 3D artist Josh Robinson said: “All I really did was write a few paragraphs that gave my opinion on publicly released information… 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.”

In January, Robinson posted an article on his blog which read: “Our game just keeps getting moved back… And back… And back. Again, where is the box? Where is the final system? When is it coming out? No one knows and in the mean time people in the industry are starting to get just a little salty.”

“You could always tell where the PS3 dev box was because it’s the room that had the F-bomb coming out of it half the day,” he added.

But the comments most likely to have riled Sony executives were to do with the PS3’s technical capabilities versus those of the Xbox 360: “I’ve also talked with people on the technical side of the Xbox 360. The consistent comment I am hearing from people on my end is, ‘The Xbox 360 is better’,” Robinson wrote.

“They are saying that it is capable of just doing more.”

Robinson told PS3week that he asked at least two Sony employees to read the blog entry before it was posted, and even showed it to an SOE producer. “We were all in agreement that I was not breaking NDA with what I was saying,” he said.

“I guess the new rule for me is, don’t ever say anything at all about anything. Ever… Ever.”

Source: GameIndustry.biz

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