Yoshida: Sony made mistakes over PS3 online support
But version 3.0 update will start rectifying matters
Sony worldwide studios boss Shuhei Yoshida has admitted that the firm was late in offering 'platform-level' online support with the PlayStation 3 consoles, but that the firm is now making up for lost time.
Chatting with CVG, the executive explained: "I think we were late to offer the platform-level support, to make the online functionality work at that level.
"We made the prior decision that you do not introduce the common centralized network names into every experience, so publishers made their own. That was fine at the start, but as more and more games have online functionality you need a unified approach.
"So Microsoft took that approach in the last generation, and maybe that's where people see the difference when they compare Xbox Live and PSN."
The big cheese was quick to affirm that with the PS3's 3.0 firmware update, a number of improvements will be made to PSN - while social network integration is also a possibility in the future.
