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Wow! 6 00:16:36,454 --> 00:16:41,293 I was still quite new, perhaps not even a month had passed since my hiring 7 00:16:42,169 --> 00:16:45,672 when the atmosphere felt very different than usual as I arrived at work one day. 8 00:16:46,506 --> 00:16:49,277 I thought that something must have happened that would change everything 9 00:16:49,301 --> 00:16:51,094 bring about the end of an era. 10 00:16:51,178 --> 00:16:56,641 I asked what had happened, and was told that we had been informed that 11 00:16:58,059 --> 00:17:00,312 Nintendo had decided to go it alone 12 00:17:01,354 --> 00:17:04,733 Even when the joint project 13 00:17:05,066 --> 00:17:08,069 with Nintendo was canceled 14 00:17:08,904 --> 00:17:12,073 Kutaragi-san said that we at Sony 15 00:17:13,325 --> 00:17:15,577 should make the system ourselves. 16 00:17:16,036 --> 00:17:18,663 Something that Kutaragi-san said then 17 00:17:18,747 --> 00:17:23,126 something that influences me even now 18 00:17:23,501 --> 00:17:26,379 is that we may not have the greatest chance at success 19 00:17:26,755 --> 00:17:29,841 but it's not like failing here would cost us our lives or anything 20 00:17:29,925 --> 00:17:31,676 so we should just go for it. 21 00:17:57,494 --> 00:18:03,250 I joined the PlayStation team in December 1992 22 00:18:03,333 --> 00:18:07,295 It had been decided that we would build 23 00:18:08,088 --> 00:18:13,718 a device producing superior 3D graphics. 24 00:18:14,719 --> 00:18:21,268 Sony brought in engineers and researchers. 25 00:18:23,520 --> 00:18:30,360 My main mission there, of course 26 00:18:30,902 --> 00:18:37,033 was to make games for this new PlayStation console 27 00:18:37,242 --> 00:18:42,289 as I was there working on the software team. 28 00:18:42,497 --> 00:18:46,042 The entire PlayStation team was really quite small 29 00:18:46,209 --> 00:18:49,254 including the hardware team, the software team, everyone 30 00:18:49,421 --> 00:18:54,426 with various people taking care of various tasks. 31 00:25:21,354 --> 00:25:25,108 PlayStation came from the word "work station" 32 00:25:26,025 --> 00:25:27,860 a computer with a large screen 33 00:25:28,528 --> 00:25:32,323 and multiple programs installed 34 00:25:32,949 --> 00:25:34,742 so the user can do a variety of work. 35 00:25:35,493 --> 00:25:37,495 These aren't specialist devices. 36 00:25:39,914 --> 00:25:43,126 Similarly, the PlayStation would 37 00:25:43,626 --> 00:25:45,027 be able to play a variety of games. 38 00:25:45,586 --> 00:25:48,339 We wanted to do not just games 39 00:25:48,423 --> 00:25:52,552 but also work with music and communications. 40 00:25:52,927 --> 00:25:58,641 The name of the device became PlayStation. Given these requests 41 00:29:56,295 --> 00:30:02,218 I went along with them, meeting all these developers and other employees 42 00:30:02,468 --> 00:30:09,433 and my role there was to take notes for everyone. 43 00:30:11,018 --> 00:30:16,315 That was before everything. 44 00:30:17,483 --> 00:30:20,486 When the PlayStation had just got its start as a business 45 00:30:21,028 --> 00:30:23,364 these meetings were very important for Sony. 46 00:30:24,824 --> 00:30:29,495 I think that my name is probably on each set of notes there. 47 00:30:31,080 --> 00:30:33,082 That was another one of my jobs then. 48 00:36:46,121 --> 00:36:51,627 Sony gave us this demonstration of a dinosaur. It was a T-rex head. 49 00:36:51,710 --> 00:36:58,008 And they told us how it would move around in real-time CG. 50 00:36:59,051 --> 00:37:04,556 Of course, we were making games at the time, but we were also film fans, 51 00:37:04,640 --> 00:37:10,979 and the CG in Jurassic Park had made a huge impact. 52 00:37:11,980 --> 00:37:16,193 To see the same kind of visual depictions from Jurassic Park, 53 00:37:17,319 --> 00:37:20,322 actually moving around in Sony's Tyrannosaurus demo, 54 00:37:20,406 --> 00:37:22,658 on this platform called PlayStation. 55 00:37:22,783 --> 00:37:25,994 That left a very lasting impression on us. 56 00:38:57,753 --> 00:39:00,339 How many colours you could use 57 00:39:00,631 --> 00:39:02,799 was always a question then. 58 00:39:02,883 --> 00:39:05,719 Moving into an era 59 00:39:05,802 --> 00:39:07,804 where you could use all these colours 60 00:39:07,888 --> 00:39:09,890 as well as polygons and textures 61 00:39:09,973 --> 00:39:11,517 really was like a dream to me. 62 00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:13,810 If felt that if I could do all that 63 00:39:14,561 --> 00:39:18,524 then I could make the 3D Metal Gear 64 00:39:19,024 --> 00:39:22,236 that I had wanted to 65 00:39:22,319 --> 00:39:24,738 since the days of the MSX but was unable to. 66 00:39:25,405 --> 00:39:29,201 Though changing the coloring was a scary idea. 67 00:39:30,244 --> 00:39:33,789 When I saw the PlayStation presentation 68 00:39:33,872 --> 00:39:36,667 I saw that I would be able 69 00:39:37,459 --> 00:39:40,003 to make the game that I really wanted 70 00:39:40,087 --> 00:39:44,091 with a full set of colours and polygons. 71 00:39:44,716 --> 00:39:46,552 That idea was really shocking to me. 72 00:39:46,635 --> 00:39:49,304 I mean in a positive sense of the word. 73 00:39:49,846 --> 00:39:52,224 When I heard that Sony, 74 00:39:52,307 --> 00:39:54,244 a company known for audio and electronics equipment, 75 00:39:54,268 --> 00:39:56,687 was making a game console, 76 00:39:56,770 --> 00:40:02,401 I was both excited and anxious to see what they would come up with. 77 00:40:02,484 --> 00:40:08,532 Then when I saw this machine 78 00:40:08,865 --> 00:40:11,660 with its CD-ROM drive, 79 00:40:11,743 --> 00:40:15,247 and the 3D polygon visuals, 80 00:40:15,372 --> 00:40:18,959 it was a completely different approach to what had come before 81 00:40:19,042 --> 00:40:25,424 and revolutionized the industry. 82 00:40:25,549 --> 00:40:28,510 I think if Sony had not entered the console market at that time 83 00:40:28,594 --> 00:40:31,513 then it would be totally different today. 84 00:40:31,680 --> 00:40:35,017 When I saw what they came up with, 85 00:40:35,100 --> 00:40:38,937 with the CD-ROMs and the polygons, 86 00:40:39,021 --> 00:40:42,816 it felt like a brand new approach to games. 87 00:41:45,671 --> 00:41:48,799 Yes, I remember at the time, 88 00:41:48,882 --> 00:41:53,178 being asked to demo a sample 89 00:41:53,261 --> 00:41:57,599 to various development companies. 90 00:41:57,974 --> 00:42:02,437 This was met with some shock and awe. 91 00:42:02,521 --> 00:42:07,317 Reactions such as, 'wow, they can really do this...' 92 00:42:07,401 --> 00:42:11,196 I was aware at the time that other companies 93 00:42:11,279 --> 00:42:16,284 had studied the demo really closely. 94 00:42:17,494 --> 00:42:22,082 I think that it was a massive success, as a sample. 95 00:42:23,166 --> 00:42:30,132 We learned what we can do with hard work. 96 00:42:31,675 --> 00:42:37,681 We needed to make better games, and so did Namco. 97 00:42:38,181 --> 00:42:41,643 I think that this was a great development. 98 00:42:51,027 --> 00:42:54,489 The initial SDK was certainly quite large 99 00:42:54,573 --> 00:42:59,411 around this size, and it was heavy too. 100 00:43:00,078 --> 00:43:06,668 Sony sent it to the game companies in March of 1993. 101 00:43:07,919 --> 00:43:10,422 A number of game companies said 102 00:43:10,547 --> 00:43:12,507 that they wouldn't be able 103 00:43:13,258 --> 00:43:16,344 to make games for the PlayStation 104 00:43:16,928 --> 00:43:18,169 if Sony didn't have the SDK out 105 00:43:19,014 --> 00:43:20,515 by the final day of March. 106 00:43:21,850 --> 00:43:24,311 And so it wound up 107 00:43:25,145 --> 00:43:29,733 that the final day of March was our due date. 108 00:43:30,066 --> 00:43:35,572 I remember us completing and delivering it. 109 00:43:36,031 --> 00:43:38,617 The machines were hand-made 110 00:43:39,409 --> 00:43:41,411 and we couldn't send them 111 00:43:41,870 --> 00:43:43,455 via a home delivery service 112 00:43:44,498 --> 00:43:48,210 due to their weight, size 113 00:43:48,293 --> 00:43:53,173 and large power source. 114 00:43:54,925 --> 00:43:59,304 This meant that we delivered them ourselves 115 00:43:59,387 --> 00:44:02,682 taking taxis and bullet trains to do so. 116 00:44:03,183 --> 00:44:08,605 3 or 4 of those were around 30 kg 117 00:44:08,814 --> 00:44:12,150 but we brought them to the game companies. 118 00:44:12,692 --> 00:44:15,987 There were actually some people 119 00:44:16,488 --> 00:44:18,615 that flew all the way to the US with them. 120 00:50:24,689 --> 00:50:28,943 Capcom had only very recently started using 3D graphics 121 00:50:29,027 --> 00:50:32,071 so we began our work by first thinking 122 00:50:32,155 --> 00:50:35,325 about how we could go about using them. 123 00:50:35,450 --> 00:50:41,456 Our benchmark was that T-Rex demo that Sony came out with. 124 00:50:41,539 --> 00:50:44,876 We took quite a number of approaches 125 00:50:44,959 --> 00:50:51,090 from working as hard as we could to replicate what they had put out 126 00:50:51,174 --> 00:50:54,135 to thinking that it would actually be a bad move 127 00:50:54,219 --> 00:50:57,180 to approach Resident Evil like they did T-Rex. 128 00:50:57,263 --> 00:50:59,557 We really were starting from zero there. 129 00:51:00,683 --> 00:51:03,186 It just wouldn't display 130 00:51:03,269 --> 00:51:07,732 so the idea of going full 3D 131 00:51:07,815 --> 00:51:11,861 just wasn't going to get much traction. 132 00:51:12,570 --> 00:51:14,989 With things going like this 133 00:51:15,073 --> 00:51:17,825 it started feeling like it could get canceled. 134 00:51:18,701 --> 00:51:21,204 When Alone in the Dark came out 135 00:51:21,287 --> 00:51:24,582 it had a large quantity 136 00:51:24,666 --> 00:51:28,461 of pre-rendered graphics displayed. 137 00:51:28,544 --> 00:51:32,048 The only object was the character itself. 138 00:51:32,131 --> 00:51:35,385 From the player perspective 139 00:51:35,468 --> 00:51:40,598 the game had a three-dimensional atmosphere 140 00:51:40,682 --> 00:51:45,270 and all of this demonstrated 141 00:51:45,353 --> 00:51:48,356 that it was now possible 142 00:51:48,439 --> 00:51:51,150 to create a more complete game 143 00:51:51,234 --> 00:51:54,779 including visually. 144 00:52:00,994 --> 00:52:05,081 From there, we steadily moved onto animation methods. 145 00:52:05,164 --> 00:52:09,877 By deciding to use camerawork to show a 3D space in 2D, 146 00:52:10,044 --> 00:52:13,715 Mikami-san established the blueprint for what would become Resident Evil. 147 00:52:18,594 --> 00:52:21,723 Essentially, the idea was 148 00:52:21,806 --> 00:52:24,309 that there would be zombies 149 00:52:24,392 --> 00:52:26,394 that were located in places 150 00:52:26,477 --> 00:52:28,479 that the camera didn't reach. 151 00:52:28,563 --> 00:52:30,565 The player couldn't see them 152 00:52:30,648 --> 00:52:32,650 but they could hear them. 153 00:52:32,734 --> 00:52:35,069 There was a certain scariness 154 00:52:35,194 --> 00:52:37,989 in zombies being out of sight. 155 00:52:39,324 --> 00:52:43,411 This type of fear was sort of 156 00:52:43,619 --> 00:52:46,497 the main concept for the game. 157 00:52:46,581 --> 00:52:50,501 I imagined the player 158 00:52:50,585 --> 00:52:54,672 growing very jumpy about everything 159 00:52:54,756 --> 00:53:00,261 and being on the edge of their seat. 160 00:53:00,345 --> 00:53:05,016 Where they would be able to sense 161 00:53:05,099 --> 00:53:08,978 that there was a zombie 162 00:53:09,062 --> 00:53:12,357 just around the corner. 163 00:53:18,821 --> 00:53:25,787 The camera marks... 164 00:53:27,455 --> 00:53:34,420 Well, I did set the cameras, 165 00:53:36,589 --> 00:53:41,260 but I didn't have any experience shooting with a real camera. 166 00:53:41,386 --> 00:53:47,266 I started learning from step one, 167 00:53:47,350 --> 00:53:53,439 imagining how a player going through a corridor would feel, 168 00:53:53,523 --> 00:53:59,529 which camera angles would frighten them. 169 00:53:59,695 --> 00:54:02,156 That's how I went about it. 170 00:54:02,240 --> 00:54:04,992 If we get down to the technical details, 171 00:54:05,076 --> 00:54:06,637 a single room could only have 8 cameras... 172 00:54:06,661 --> 00:54:08,538 You really remember this well! 173 00:54:08,621 --> 00:54:10,039 Due to reasons of memory capacity. 174 00:54:10,164 --> 00:54:15,586 This doubled to 16 for Resident Evil 2. 175 00:54:15,878 --> 00:54:20,591 There were just 8 for the first game. 176 00:54:20,800 --> 00:54:23,553 You only had so many cuts 177 00:54:23,636 --> 00:54:27,765 and you had to make the game playable, 178 00:54:27,849 --> 00:54:32,019 without leaving any blind spots in the room where the character can't be seen. 179 00:59:25,438 --> 00:59:29,400 Gameplay and cut scenes were separate. 180 00:59:29,483 --> 00:59:33,779 Cut scenes were like movie scenes 181 00:59:34,363 --> 00:59:37,366 with the characters and backgrounds 182 00:59:37,867 --> 00:59:40,745 being entirely rendered separately. 183 00:59:41,579 --> 00:59:45,750 I didn't want to do it like this. 184 00:59:46,292 --> 00:59:48,335 I wanted to make cut scenes 185 00:59:49,837 --> 00:59:51,964 that used the game models as they were 186 00:59:52,047 --> 00:59:54,049 to use those models and the camera 187 00:59:54,133 --> 00:59:56,677 to tell a story to the player. 188 00:59:57,094 --> 00:59:58,215 That is what I wanted to do. 189 00:59:58,512 --> 01:00:01,807 There was also the player being able 190 01:00:01,891 --> 01:00:03,934 to control the camera as they played. 191 01:00:04,018 --> 01:00:07,021 There could be rear or side view 192 01:00:07,104 --> 01:00:09,273 3 cameras above that the player 193 01:00:09,356 --> 01:00:12,234 could use to control the display 194 01:00:12,318 --> 01:00:15,070 and give them a sense of control. 195 01:00:15,154 --> 01:00:17,531 They could change things themselves 196 01:00:17,615 --> 01:00:19,784 which made for richer gameplay 197 01:00:19,867 --> 01:00:21,327 that was more film-like. 198 01:00:21,410 --> 01:00:23,537 These are two ideas 199 01:00:23,621 --> 01:00:25,623 that I had wanted to work on 200 01:00:25,706 --> 01:00:27,708 when we made Metal Gear Solid. 201 01:00:27,792 --> 01:00:30,002 It could be said that these have 202 01:00:30,085 --> 01:00:31,712 turned into a sort of standard for us. 203 01:00:32,129 --> 01:00:36,675 Even though some film-like techniques 204 01:00:36,759 --> 01:00:39,094 or cuts had been used in games up until then 205 01:00:40,262 --> 01:00:42,848 the lack of camera meant each frame 206 01:00:43,682 --> 01:00:46,811 had to be created individually. 207 01:00:47,561 --> 01:00:52,733 These images couldn't be manipulated. 208 01:00:53,984 --> 01:00:55,986 That's how it was then. 209 01:00:56,070 --> 01:00:57,905 Where 3D polygons are used 210 01:00:57,988 --> 01:01:00,074 the player can also move the camera. 211 01:01:01,033 --> 01:01:03,828 This was the first time that we were 212 01:01:05,037 --> 01:01:07,456 able to work with cameras like this 213 01:01:08,082 --> 01:01:09,875 rather than just set angles. 214 01:01:10,501 --> 01:01:12,419 This made me extremely happy 215 01:01:12,503 --> 01:01:14,505 as I love movies and knew 216 01:01:14,588 --> 01:01:16,924 about these techniques and ideas 217 01:01:17,007 --> 01:01:19,093 and we could now use these processes 218 01:01:19,593 --> 01:01:22,471 to accomplish previously impossible things 219 01:01:40,364 --> 01:01:43,242 Of course, in the beginning, 220 01:01:43,325 --> 01:01:47,121 most people were used to playing 2D games. 221 01:01:47,872 --> 01:01:52,418 The tempo of these games was very different. 222 01:01:52,501 --> 01:01:55,629 With the shift to 3D, 223 01:01:55,796 --> 01:02:01,927 what were 2D images, now had depth. 224 01:02:02,052 --> 01:02:07,349 Consequently, the camera became pivotal 225 01:02:07,433 --> 01:02:13,188 and it was down to the player to gauge distances. 226 01:02:14,231 --> 01:02:18,277 It was very difficult for a player 227 01:02:18,360 --> 01:02:22,364 to work out timings and when to brake 228 01:02:22,448 --> 01:02:24,450 until they got used to it. 229 01:02:24,533 --> 01:02:28,203 With earlier games, 230 01:02:28,287 --> 01:02:33,208 it was easy for players to follow the extension of a straight line, 231 01:02:33,292 --> 01:02:37,922 so we made adjustments with the 3D games to keep them interesting. 232 01:02:38,005 --> 01:02:40,007 For example, when taking a corner, 233 01:02:40,090 --> 01:02:43,260 centripetal force acting on the car 234 01:02:43,385 --> 01:02:46,013 pulls it out around the curve, 235 01:02:46,096 --> 01:02:49,516 SO we wrote a program to intentionally 236 01:02:49,600 --> 01:02:53,062 pull the car back in and control its movements. 237 01:03:51,370 --> 01:03:54,581 When it came to deciding what kind of game 238 01:03:54,665 --> 01:03:57,501 we ultimately wanted to make FINAL FANTASY VII into, 239 01:03:58,210 --> 01:04:00,671 we felt that it needed a large volume 240 01:04:01,839 --> 01:04:04,967 of high-end movie cut scenes. 241 01:04:06,468 --> 01:04:13,434 Not the real-time 3D graphics in the game, but pre-rendered movies, 242 01:04:16,145 --> 01:04:18,897 and CD-ROM media 243 01:04:18,981 --> 01:04:20,190 would be needed for that. 244 01:04:20,274 --> 01:04:24,028 We had decided what we most wanted to do with the game, 245 01:04:24,111 --> 01:04:28,907 and concluded that 246 01:04:30,743 --> 01:04:34,455 we would need to use CD-ROM to make that a reality. 247 01:04:35,247 --> 01:04:41,420 Our tests and discussions led to that result. 248 01:04:42,880 --> 01:04:46,759 And that resulted in FINAL FANTASY VI 249 01:04:46,884 --> 01:04:50,137 coming out on the PlayStation. 250 01:08:01,245 --> 01:08:08,168 The PlayStation was the first console 251 01:08:08,543 --> 01:08:15,467 that could use pulse-code modulation. 252 01:08:15,842 --> 01:08:22,307 That's where sound is recorded and a sample loop created 253 01:08:23,809 --> 01:08:30,816 with that loop being played afterwards as the sound. 254 01:08:31,733 --> 01:08:37,864 To record the car sounds in Gran Turismo, we'd rent each one 255 01:08:39,074 --> 01:08:46,039 and then record the engine in phrases, starting with the idling sounds 256 01:08:48,667 --> 01:08:54,006 We took these recordings and made sample loops for each engine 257 01:08:55,549 --> 01:09:01,430 making a tone quality specific to each engine. 258 01:09:02,639 --> 01:09:08,687 I remember now that when we played back 259 01:09:08,770 --> 01:09:14,985 the cars sounds we had recorded 260 01:09:15,068 --> 01:09:21,825 We started noticing things. 261 01:09:21,908 --> 01:09:24,589 Like how the pitches would drop in pitch the farther away they were. 262 01:09:24,619 --> 01:09:29,207 Or rise in pitch the closer they were... the blur effect. 263 01:09:29,958 --> 01:09:35,339 Gran Turismo was probably the first game to put these in a game, certainly. 264 01:10:32,396 --> 01:10:34,815 In the SNES era, the game screens were 2D, 265 01:10:36,108 --> 01:10:40,404 and there were no voices of course, 266 01:10:40,612 --> 01:10:42,989 and no cinematic movie scenes. 267 01:10:43,448 --> 01:10:48,453 So you had to have music with strong melodies. 268 01:10:49,246 --> 01:10:51,957 Tunes that would still stand up, 269 01:10:52,416 --> 01:10:55,377 even if you listened to them repeated over and over. 270 01:11:00,215 --> 01:11:03,802 I think our music composer, 271 01:11:03,885 --> 01:11:06,686 Mr. Uematsu was also suitably aware of this when he composed the score. 272 01:11:07,514 --> 01:11:10,684 Mr. Uematsu said this at the time. 273 01:11:12,102 --> 01:11:15,564 When the CG animation became more 3D with the PlayStation, 274 01:11:16,106 --> 01:11:21,111 and the cinematic movie scenes became more dramatic, 275 01:11:21,361 --> 01:11:25,949 the visuals had a much greater impact. 276 01:11:26,658 --> 01:11:31,037 And paradoxically, if you used the same melodies, 277 01:11:31,997 --> 01:11:35,542 the same logic for making music as in the SNES era, 278 01:11:36,084 --> 01:11:41,923 then the music and the visuals would jar, and clash with each other terribly. 279 01:11:42,591 --> 01:11:46,178 This would stop the scene from coming together and lose its effectiveness. 280 01:11:46,845 --> 01:11:49,723 So when we showed strong visuals, we would make the music more reserved, 281 01:11:50,265 --> 01:11:51,784 or for moments where the characters' emotions were high, 282 01:11:51,808 --> 01:11:53,101 we would ramp up the music. 283 01:11:53,185 --> 01:11:54,370 I remember feeling how that balancing between 284 01:11:54,394 --> 01:11:56,115 soft and hard had changed from the SNES era. 285 01:11:56,229 --> 01:11:59,399 So in the field of music too, 286 01:11:59,483 --> 01:12:02,736 the way games used music had become closer to film or video, 287 01:12:04,237 --> 01:12:10,202 the way background music is added in films. 288 01:12:11,953 --> 01:12:18,710 I think the way games were made probably changed to have an awareness of that. 289 01:15:13,176 --> 01:15:18,682 Of Namco's polygon games at that time, 290 01:15:18,765 --> 01:15:25,313 our game became the model for many other companies. 291 01:15:25,397 --> 01:15:29,109 I've heard that said often. 292 01:15:29,234 --> 01:15:36,199 I don't think this was because the design was interesting. 293 01:15:37,992 --> 01:15:43,373 Rather, it was the paradigm shift in polygon technology, 294 01:15:43,498 --> 01:15:46,751 from a 2D to a 3D world. 295 01:15:46,918 --> 01:15:51,798 It was this intense evolution of polygon technology 296 01:15:51,881 --> 01:15:54,384 which brought about our success. 297 01:18:08,268 --> 01:18:12,897 With CD-ROMs you can manufacture 298 01:18:13,022 --> 01:18:15,275 a certain number in a week 299 01:18:15,942 --> 01:18:19,445 so in order to ship large quantities 300 01:18:19,737 --> 01:18:22,991 you needed to begin the process ahead of time 301 01:18:23,116 --> 01:18:25,577 and build up your stored copies. 302 01:18:26,327 --> 01:18:27,996 Game companies want to spend 303 01:18:28,079 --> 01:18:30,832 as much time as they can on development 304 01:18:30,915 --> 01:18:34,460 so they like to wait until the final week 305 01:18:35,086 --> 01:18:36,921 before beginning production. 306 01:18:37,005 --> 01:18:40,842 There could also be bugs in the game 307 01:18:41,259 --> 01:18:45,179 so both Sony and the publishing company 308 01:18:45,930 --> 01:18:47,307 need to test for that. 309 01:18:47,849 --> 01:18:49,851 Sony has several dozen people do this. 310 01:18:50,393 --> 01:18:54,355 But this was Sony's first game console 311 01:18:54,439 --> 01:18:58,234 so they had no idea how to test for these things. 312 01:18:58,985 --> 01:19:00,528 We created the system for this 313 01:19:00,612 --> 01:19:02,947 hired the personnel 314 01:19:03,031 --> 01:19:04,866 and carried it out 315 01:19:04,949 --> 01:19:08,995 all in the final three months before release. 316 01:19:09,078 --> 01:19:11,289 There were a lot of things that we had to do 317 01:19:11,873 --> 01:19:13,750 during those final three months 318 01:19:14,042 --> 01:19:16,252 that were new for us at Sony. 319 01:19:38,107 --> 01:19:40,026 The maximum number of units 320 01:19:40,276 --> 01:19:42,320 for a Sony product 321 01:19:42,987 --> 01:19:45,365 such as the Walkman 322 01:19:46,199 --> 01:19:48,117 on the day of release 323 01:19:49,953 --> 01:19:51,579 was 5,000 or 6,000 units. 324 01:19:52,288 --> 01:19:56,084 If you wanted to put out 20,000 units 325 01:19:56,209 --> 01:19:58,252 you would be told that it was too many 326 01:19:58,336 --> 01:20:00,922 The idea was to begin production slowly. 327 01:20:01,756 --> 01:20:07,470 Sony couldn't move slowly with a game console. 328 01:20:08,304 --> 01:20:12,350 Companies were getting ready to release games. 329 01:20:13,726 --> 01:20:16,980 Hardware has no value without its software 330 01:20:17,730 --> 01:20:20,233 so if a company is aiming to publish 331 01:20:20,316 --> 01:20:22,318 100,000 copies of a title 332 01:20:22,402 --> 01:20:24,237 then at a minimum 333 01:20:24,487 --> 01:20:27,073 you need 100,000 consoles ready. 334 01:20:29,492 --> 01:20:32,286 Given this, we needed to produce the PlayStation 335 01:20:32,412 --> 01:20:36,666 In mass quantity, right from the beginning. 336 01:20:37,291 --> 01:20:40,253 This was completely different 337 01:20:40,336 --> 01:20:44,173 than Sony's usual approach at the time. 338 01:20:45,174 --> 01:20:48,803 Also, we needed to have the consoles 339 01:20:50,096 --> 01:20:53,725 delivered to stores all on the same day 340 01:20:54,392 --> 01:20:57,061 in order to stimulate game sales. 341 01:22:16,307 --> 01:22:18,643 All games gather here. 342 01:22:21,854 --> 01:22:24,732 Full of games, PlayStation. Out now. 343 01:29:58,561 --> 01:30:01,188 Three, two, one, go! 344 01:49:33,901 --> 01:49:40,825 Before the PlayStation was released as a home console, 345 01:49:40,908 --> 01:49:45,246 work was already underway on Namco's System 11 arcade board. 346 01:49:45,830 --> 01:49:52,795 This board incorporated some of the PlayStation architecture, 347 01:49:53,796 --> 01:49:58,843 such as the CPU, which was developed by Mr. Kutaragi's team. 348 01:49:59,469 --> 01:50:02,472 What Namco was most surprised by 349 01:50:02,555 --> 01:50:06,684 was the cost, how cheap it was. 350 01:50:06,768 --> 01:50:10,313 To be able to make something with that capability 351 01:50:10,396 --> 01:50:12,857 for that price, was pretty surprising. 352 01:50:13,691 --> 01:50:17,612 What Mr. Kutaragi was trying to do at that time, 353 01:50:17,695 --> 01:50:21,908 by making a low cost polygon chip 354 01:50:21,991 --> 01:50:24,243 available to the global market, 355 01:50:24,327 --> 01:50:27,371 marked a paradigm shift in the polygon era. 356 01:50:27,955 --> 01:50:33,169 Although Namco had a board 357 01:50:33,252 --> 01:50:35,588 with better polygon technology and capabilities, 358 01:50:35,671 --> 01:50:40,551 this was an interesting business model for us, 359 01:50:40,635 --> 01:50:44,305 and we continued to work with Mr. Kutaragi. 360 02:03:04,586 --> 02:03:10,926 The process of moving from loo to Shadow of the Colossus 361 02:03:13,095 --> 02:03:19,935 wasn't entirely smooth. 362 02:03:20,143 --> 02:03:27,067 Personally, I was happy with Ico 363 02:03:27,150 --> 02:03:31,738 and players were happy with it too 364 02:03:32,698 --> 02:03:37,035 Take lighting as an example 365 02:03:37,119 --> 02:03:42,916 a lot of video imagery at that time 366 02:03:43,000 --> 02:03:46,211 was not preoccupied with shadow and contrast 367 02:03:46,378 --> 02:03:50,465 there was a lot of pre-rendered and CG video around 368 02:03:50,674 --> 02:03:56,597 and games with loud and flashy graphics 369 02:03:56,847 --> 02:04:00,892 I was interested in more subtle approaches 370 02:04:00,976 --> 02:04:04,271 to shades and tones that were closer to reality 371 02:04:04,354 --> 02:04:08,692 I think that's what differentiated us at that time 372 02:04:08,984 --> 02:04:15,949 but it wasn't a great commercial success 373 02:04:16,575 --> 02:04:21,496 so I came up with Shadow of the Colossus 374 02:04:26,084 --> 02:04:33,050 But whether it's the story, the backdrop, the movement 375 02:04:35,677 --> 02:04:41,099 it's all about making the player believe the characters are real 376 02:04:41,183 --> 02:04:46,355 that they exist for real in that world 377 02:04:46,480 --> 02:04:50,442 for me, that's what it's all about it 378 02:04:50,651 --> 02:04:57,616 The most effective way of bringing characters to life 379 02:04:58,784 --> 02:05:01,536 is through the story of that world 380 02:05:01,620 --> 02:05:06,249 I always incorporate a story in my games 381 02:05:06,375 --> 02:05:13,256 but I don't necessarily create games to tell stories 382 02:05:17,886 --> 02:05:24,768 The significance of PlayStation 383 02:05:25,394 --> 02:05:28,397 For me personally 384 02:05:28,480 --> 02:05:34,778 I feel I was able to become a games designer and developer 385 02:05:34,903 --> 02:05:38,699 because of PlayStation 386 02:31:45,764 --> 02:31:47,599 I think that VR will be a major shift. 387 02:31:47,683 --> 02:31:49,685 In the games up until the present 388 02:31:49,768 --> 02:31:52,562 all of the video, screens, etc. 389 02:31:52,646 --> 02:31:56,441 Have been put into a square layout 390 02:31:57,317 --> 02:32:00,487 that is there to hold information. 391 02:32:00,570 --> 02:32:04,616 We've had film as a medium 392 02:32:04,700 --> 02:32:07,327 for over 100 years now and this is the first time 393 02:32:07,411 --> 02:32:10,330 that we've broken through this frame. 394 02:32:10,414 --> 02:32:13,792 Being able to now create art, film, and games 395 02:32:13,875 --> 02:32:16,837 that don't fit into this frame, 396 02:32:16,920 --> 02:32:20,048 and the question 397 02:32:20,132 --> 02:32:22,592 of how to go about expressing this... 398 02:32:22,676 --> 02:32:25,178 I think that the next 2 to 3 years 399 02:32:25,554 --> 02:32:28,640 will major for this medium 400 02:32:29,016 --> 02:32:31,935 in terms of how creators and artists 401 02:32:32,019 --> 02:32:37,899 will use it, and what they will create. 402 02:35:34,075 --> 02:35:37,370 I think that Sony put together 403 02:35:37,454 --> 02:35:40,040 a fantastic team for the PlayStation. 404 02:35:41,791 --> 02:35:45,337 They had members from both Sony and Sony Music 405 02:35:45,462 --> 02:35:48,298 two entirely different teams. 406 02:35:50,133 --> 02:35:52,802 And there were people like me 407 02:35:53,845 --> 02:35:57,516 coming from outside of Sony. 408 02:35:58,058 --> 02:36:02,437 All three types of members 409 02:36:03,480 --> 02:36:06,024 put their heads together for the PlayStation. 410 02:36:06,608 --> 02:36:08,276 This incredible product 411 02:36:08,485 --> 02:36:10,195 would never have been created 412 02:36:10,362 --> 02:36:12,405 if Sony hadn't decided on making the PlayStation 413 02:36:12,614 --> 02:36:14,616 A lot of people from different fields 414 02:36:15,116 --> 02:36:18,161 were able to come together 415 02:36:19,246 --> 02:36:24,125 and work on gaming hardware. 416 02:36:24,834 --> 02:36:27,671 The biggest thing I took away from it 417 02:36:27,754 --> 02:36:31,466 was being able to participate in this. 418 02:38:05,310 --> 02:38:10,565 When I first joined the PlayStation team I was in my early 20s 419 02:38:14,110 --> 02:38:18,490 and one thing that everyone was talking about then 420 02:38:22,535 --> 02:38:26,665 was the desire to make playing video games a cooler activity. 421 02:38:27,248 --> 02:38:29,167 Everyone was saying that. 422 02:38:32,420 --> 02:38:36,549 This was one of the goals in making the PlayStation. 423 02:38:39,260 --> 02:38:43,807 Perhaps then, it's fair to say 424 02:38:43,890 --> 02:38:49,312 that their goals have come true now. 425 02:38:49,396 --> 02:38:55,527 Video games are definitely a normal part of our lifestyle now. 426 02:38:56,778 --> 02:39:01,074 The fact that adults can play them without feeling self-conscious 427 02:39:02,492 --> 02:39:04,869 is a pretty major effect that the PlayStation 428 02:39:04,953 --> 02:39:07,288 has had on us, wouldn't you say? 429 02:39:07,372 --> 02:39:08,873 I personally feel that this is so.