Harrison pushed for God of War 2 on PS3

God of War 2 director Cory Barlog has admitted in a 1UP interview that Phil Harrison questioned the wisdom of putting God of War 2 on PS2 instead of PS3, a tactic endorsed by now head of worldwide studios at Sony, Shuhei Yoshida.

The full quote:

Shuhei was handling a lot of the projects through all the studios in America. He was pushing for PS2, and I was kind of on the fence. PS2 for me was like, "We can make a really great game; we don't have to catch up with the technology and start from scratch." We could focus on just making a great game, hence the reason that it was bigger and just had more content, and we could focus on refining everything that we had.

But Phil had brought it up, "Why aren't we doing this on PS3?" I was actually in a presentation for the game I think a year into it, or maybe eight months into it, and Shuhei and Phil and bunch of other Japanese executives were there. We did the whole dog and pony, and then the first thing Phil said was, "Very good, thank you. I just have to ask this, since it seems like the obvious question. Why are we not doing this on PS3?" And I was like, "Uhh." I kind of looked over at Shu and was like, "You want to take this?" He was a big proponent of it, but in the end I think a lot of people were like, "It's a smart move to do it on PS2."

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