“There’s no denying that we’ve had some very public challenges,” Harrison told the blog, adding that, “Yes, we have overreached in production of the Blu-Ray component - I can’t deny that. But that's the price you pay for adopting brand new, leading-edge technologies that will be future proof."
It's well-documented that Sony has encountered a considerable amount of trouble when it comes to manufacturing the blue diodes required for the PS3's Blu-ray drive, yet Harrison was also understandably keen to remain optimistic: “Today, it looks like a very difficult situation - but in the weeks, months and years to come, this will pale into zero," he said. "We will continue to catch up on the production, and as you know, we haven’t changed our full-year forecast of six million units, so we’re only talking about a ramp-up issue. We’re not talking about the fundamental design of the product itself.”
In the same interview, Harrison also discussed the inclusion of a HDMI port on the budget version of the PS3, claiming that the reason behind the decision was a sudden rise in sales of televisions equipped with HDMI. “Although we didn’t say it at E3, I think that the unspoken assumption was that we would always merge everything into HDMI eventually," he explained. "We just made that decision earlier.”
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