Jump, not to pounce on your testicles or anything, but you kinda do have your head up your ass a bit. Check out the quotes you took and your commentary... it\'s easily just as bad as what you have been saying, let\'s summarize a bit...
Jason: Nothing will change. It was announced today, but the actual machinations have been in the works for awhile. We finally got our first paychecks. Oh, there is one change: Naughty Dog employees [all 30] can go to the Sony store where as before they couldn\'t. But Sony didn\'t buy us to change us. They bought us to continue a good thing. It was more like the Polyphony arrangement, where the teams just continue creating good games independently.
Jumpman: All 30? Doesn\'t he mean 36? What a gimp.
You see those little [] signs? That means it was information added in by the editor of the interview. It was indirectly referred to, but brought back up for the redears who are reviewing the interview, rather then participating. The blame for that number falls on IGN.PS2, not Rubin.
Jason: Um, well dammit! I have tried to shoot my mouth off more than anybody else. How did they shoot theirs off more than me? Well, seriously, I respect Factor Five and they are in a very good position with Nintendo and it\'s been my perception that most companies that are close with Nintendo do well. As a console the PS2 is going to do just as well as the PS did, and it\'s going to do better than GameCube.
Jumpman: Can I have your magic ball Jason?
The guy is asked about Nintendo and Factor5 and then he makes a friendly prediction, one that he stands behind fully and you critisize him about that? I suppose I could have said "where\'s your crystal ball" about Nintendo blowing everyone away, but the topic at hand voids me from doing that because you are replying to a question, just as he is. Nothing wrong with standing behind a prediction, especially this early in the battle. Let him have what he believes, he does have a right to do that just as you have a right to tout Nintendo as the greatest thing since sliced bread.
Jason: It\'s still our contention and our goal to create the first second-generation game on the PS2. I wish we could be in a perpetual state of development. But I feel better now that the Xbox has been announced. Before that all we had was hype on XBox, and now when they said it was only going to be three times more powerful, instead of eight times more powerful than the PS2, I feel great about the PS2. The [XBox] DVD player won\'t be shipped in, like they once said. They\'ve changed so many things about the Xbox since it was first announced at GDC that it\'s clear they\'re struggling with it. I think that XBox, beyond all of the other troubles, is just not the system that they promised.
Jumpman: From out of nowhere comes the Xbox...
I totally agree with that though... I went back and read that whole section of the interview and X-box did come out of nowhere in paragraph 3... but paragraph 2 (the quote seen above) is in comparison to the PS2\'s power. Like he said, 8 times the power compared to 3 times the power, that\'s just something that has changed dramatically and the tension between the comparisons has died down a bit. I dunno if his comments about x-box were warranted in something so unsubstantiated as "ps2 graphical tricks" but he said it nonetheless. Just like in Pepsi or Coke commercials, whenever you speak of your competitor, you always downplay it.
Jason: ...and Microsoft\'s machine doesn\'t keep up with Moore\'s Law. The games they showed were running at 1/5 the frame rate they should be. If game developers don\'t have full development kits now or by this summer how can they develop games for launch? Will they only have two games? Will they even make launch this year? I feel that now, after Bill Gates\' announcement, I am absolutely convinced that XBox won\'t be our biggest competition.
Jumpman: Absolutely convinced eh? When did Jason get a time machine to travel to E3 2001?
As was said, he\'s allowed to say what he will. He makes the games you play and read about and knows more about the industry then you ever will. Maybe he\'s polishin Sony\'s knob a bit, but it is his opinion no matter what you say. You think Nintendo will be better then Sony, he thinks otherwise in terms of X-box being better then Sony and he has a right to do so just as you have the same right.
jason: Now what I have to worry about is GameCube, and whether that is as powerful and as easy to develop for as everybody has said. I have heard, and this is totally unsubstantiated, that it\'s harder to develop for than it was expected.
Jumpman: Yah right *****. Did Sony pay you to say that or did you just bring that out of nowhere? How the **** would he know, that\'s right,he doesn\'t. Jason Rubin is a tool...
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Unsubstantiated. Look up that word and come back when you\'re done and re-read that quote paying close attention to that word. You\'ll change what you just said to someting like "oh, ok" or some crap.
I don\'t think he should be allowed to drive fast cars...
Now,if you still want to live in fantasy land and think Jason is a genious and Crash is gold then fine with me. But this guy is a fool,his interviews and games prove that too.
He bashes X-box, so you bash him about driving a Ferrari? Apparently, he is doing something VERY right to be able to even own one of those... you can consider Crash to be crap all you want, but given that it is their biggest franchise and he\'s driving a Ferrari... it must be selling very well.
I don\'t give a rat\'s ass what you like or don\'t like. I was reffering to the majority. And the majority thinks that Crash games are no good,the sales of the latest versions of them will back me up.
Ummm... if you mean the majority of Nintendo fans, maybe so, but Crash 3 was heralded as one of the best titles by far. You can use sales figures all you want, but the game sold well over 500,000 copies and that\'s a very respectable number for a third sequel on one platform.
