Umm....where was this guy three years ago when Nintendo began telling the world about the excessive complexities of modern game controllers? In fact, has Phil Harrison ever SAID anything of genuine insight in the past 3 years or does he just talk a lot? It's like he's just now getting around to reading everything the industry has been talking about for more than five years. After having their ass handed to them in the market place by simpler, more casual designs, NOW Sony decides to start seriously looking at them and acting like they invented the concept? This is ridiculous. With leadership like Phil Harrison in charge, I fail to see where people are getting their data for predicting that Sony will be on top at the end of this hardware generation...

Honestly, I do not agree with Harrison.
If you take the Xbox 360 controller for instance, its extremely ergonomic and its properly equipped to handle just about any control setup a game developer could want.

I know Nintendo has done some great things with the Wiimote, but that is not how I want to play all of my games.

And its really the Core gaming market that keeps the Industry going, The casual market is large but they don't contribute the dominating numbers in sales.

3 years ago Phil was over here in Europe making Buzz and Singstar the huge deals they are. I think its a little unfair to be judging. So I think he deserves more credit than you are giving him. Oh and in relation to the comment on the 360 controller being so great...it wasn't his point that it didn't do enough just that its a big barrier to entry to your average person. My mum wont touch a Ps3 pad but she will play the Wii. Yes your right the casual market doesn't contribute as much right now...but the holy grail is finding a game that can change that, and that game will make alot alot of money.

One comment: "You will be seeing Motorstorm on your HD screens in Full HD resolution..." [Phil Harrison] Is anyone right now? Mine is 720p with slightly sluggish framerate. Maybe its my Playstation?

It's great people are finally talking about game accessibility being important. The IGDA Game Accessibility SIG has been talking about the issues Peter Molyneux raises since 2002, give or take a year. We're an advocacy group that lets players know which games are accessible and we help developers build more accessible games for everyone, even the disabled.

http://www.igda.org/accessibility/