Interview with Chris Deering
Posted by @ 10:45 AM, EST
C&VG posted a huge interview with Chris Deering, one of three presidents of Sony's computing sector.
Here’s a bit:

Will we see the first online games through PS2 this year or next year? Can we expect to see this happening in Europe in the next 12 months?

I think you'll see more and more of it in the next 12 months. Every new game we start writing internally - whether in Soho, Liverpool or Cambridge - has online features built into the game design. The new Tony Hawk's game has an online feature. SCEA has games called Frequency and Navy Seals that are clearly online oriented.

You probably read about the fact that we have a program analyser - it's a device that analyses the efficiency of programs. On PSone it took us about four years to get one of those things, and now we have a couple next door and people come and put their games through it. It's very revealing that even a game like GT3, which everybody said, "wow, that's what PS2's about" only uses about 25 percent of the capacity. What it says is that as people learn to get more out of the various elements, the chips and the BUS, etc, that you're going to see some really exciting stuff.