Comments on: Liveblog – Sony motion controller session, Develop 2009

By: SunKing

SunKing — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:39:50 +0000

God, Sony, why’d you have to be such a downer at every conference? At least try to dress up your presentations a little with a mid-show burlesque performance, stand-up comedy routine or something – anything!

By: DoucheVader

DoucheVader — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:32:02 +0000

It doesn’t even sound like the person wanted to be there.

By: DoucheVader

DoucheVader — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:30:32 +0000

Next time you send someone to a developer speaking, try to send someone who understands some of the tech jargon.

The live blog was pretty much useless.

By: smiley0

smiley0 — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:33:07 +0000

*chants*

Audio! Audio! Audio!

By: scratchy69

scratchy69 — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:09:04 +0000

It’s OK – I like the Pat pictures. Saves me looking at porn sites at work.

By: No_PUDding

No_PUDding — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:51:13 +0000

When I had a go at Ninja Moomin, you guy need to calm me down, don’t join in.

Poor guy’s probably gone to commit suicide now.

It’s alright Ninja, I know you’re pissed.

By: Patrick Garratt

Patrick Garratt — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:49:55 +0000

I’ll have a fiddle and see if I can switch the Pat pictures off.

By: scratchy69

scratchy69 — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:46:58 +0000

That box up there is quite heavy on pictures of Pat.

By: Hero of Canton

Hero of Canton — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:41:43 +0000

This isn’t a consumer conference… and you didn’t even try to interpret the information, nor translate its relevance to the readers of the blog.

Well, clearly a lot of it WASN’T relevant to the readers of this blog. It might have been to fans of Digital Foundry, perhaps, but not all of us are versed in the ways of the z-buffer and stencil cull methods, or exactly what they mean for gamers. Clearly Pat wasn’t aware that he was going to be liveblogging something which would be so impenetrably technical to most, so he decided to have a bit of fun with it rather than just posting nothing. In the circs, it’s what most of us normal people would have done.

By: Blerk

Blerk — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:39:46 +0000

I’d have liked to have seen someone interpret all of that stuff for the uninitiated at liveblog speed! Now that really would have been something!

By: BraveArse

BraveArse — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:20:05 +0000

What is dim about not understanding what a z-buffer is exactly? Pat hit the right tone for the demographic here… which is mostly gamers not developers. Even if Pat did understand what was being said I’m not sure he would have the time to digest and regurgitate it all in an appropriate form for us. Which in my case would be “Peter and Jane Lurn Cumpooturs”. Liveblogs are made for instant snappy commentary – which has to be very difficult in what sounded like a very dry and academic talk.

By: No_PUDding

No_PUDding — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:06:50 +0000

Argue value to me? Can entertainment not be value?

As for the audience in a grammatically erroneous ‘dim light’, clearly Pat didn’t understand, and he’d be stupid for assuming people are more clever than him.

Lowest common denominator and all that.

And as for paying someone to live blog it, the Editor is doing the live-blogging. And I am sure that escaping rainy Wales, for a nice day in the south of England was great for him, regardless of there being more to Develop 09, than just this session.

By: Ninja Moomin

Ninja Moomin — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:58:35 +0000

yes – but filling the live blog with no information other than inane comments makes me wonder why you bothered paying someone to liveblog it at all?

And you’ve basically just said that you guys consider your audience in quite a dim light.

Surely the point of any site in a competitive arena is to give readers something of value?

By: Dannybuoy

Dannybuoy — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:56:16 +0000

Mmmm. I just love creamy z-buffers

By: Robo_1

Robo_1 — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:52:02 +0000

Yeah, as No Pud says, Pat’s reporting of the event is going to be what most of the audience here needs. There was clearly some high level techniques discussed, which only developers are going to fully understand, and they’ll be reading full transcriptions later or will be attending the event themselves.

By: No_PUDding

No_PUDding — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:45:11 +0000

Ninja Moomin, you are on a gaming enthusiast site. He (Pat) is a member of the games press, and therefore is trying to create content that is suitable for YOU as a consumer and enthusiast of games.

The content was also delivered in this manner, on the pretense it was being recorded, so you will hear all the details eventually.

If you wanted to listen to it first hand, and live, then you should have gone to Brighton yourself.

By: Ninja Moomin

Ninja Moomin — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:39:05 +0000

The writer of this, the most terrible live blog i’ve ever read, is an embarrassment.

What were you expecting at develop, exactly?

Sony are delivery interesting and useful information on how they are finally unlocking the power of the PS3 and you reduce this to ridicule because you don’t understand it?

This isn’t a consumer conference… and you didn’t even try to interpret the information, nor translate its relevance to the readers of the blog.

In short – FAIL.

By: Sh1m3oN

Sh1m3oN — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:36:44 +0000

lol the laptop death, but the video?

By: Monk

Monk — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:30:01 +0000

By: Patrick Garratt

Patrick Garratt — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:26:44 +0000

Yeah, the battery went.

By: Patrick Garratt

Patrick Garratt — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:26:28 +0000

That was hard work

I’ll post the audio in a tick.

By: Monk

Monk — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:23:26 +0000

did Pat die

By: No_PUDding

No_PUDding — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:20:18 +0000

I assume that his Laptop run out of batteries xD

By: DeforMAKulizer

DeforMAKulizer — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:14:16 +0000

Ya i know, but a bit too technical for me… Hehe… Can’t wait to see how they apply it =D

By: Robo_1

Robo_1 — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:13:25 +0000

A fitting final post though.:)

Anywhere else doing a transcript?

By: BraveArse

BraveArse — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:12:08 +0000

uh oh – looks like Pat’s laptop has deceased.

By: Robo_1

Robo_1 — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:10:45 +0000

The stuff they’re doing with the SPU’s sounds great though. SPU assisted graphic processes have always been the key to PS3’s potential, I know it’s not exactly “KIllzone 3 announced” but I do actually find stuff like this really interesting.

By: DeforMAKulizer

DeforMAKulizer — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:05:18 +0000

That was boring >_<
Good to see investment in Facial Tracking, and hopefully soon we will get to know a name or at least final design…
Cologne it is!
Plus its funny to see Pat go loco!

By: Blerk

Blerk — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 11:00:21 +0000

Well this has unexpectedly turned into comedy gold!

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:49:35 +0000

Seeing pat completely out of his depth is fun.