Speaking to the ThreeSpeech blog, President and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment Kaz Hirai talked about the PS3 business, his own personal work schedule and Phil Harrison leaving the company. In another question relating to the former President of Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide Studios, Hirai was asked if he would change Harrison's policy of not paying for exclusives from third-parties.

"That's something that we can re-evaluate, but it's also something that the publishers need to make a business decision on," responded Hirai. "Ultimately, it becomes a dialogue – if it makes sense for them to go exclusive, that's a business decision that they need to make. But generally speaking, because of the investments that publishers need to make in this round of hardware, it's going to be more difficult for publishers to make that decision."

"Where we come into the picture is to have that dialogue with the third-party publishers, to say: 'OK, what can we do together if it's not exclusive that makes the PS3 version of the game more compelling for the consumers than any other version?'" he continued. "Let's face it – all the games are coming out on a Blu-ray disk which has 50Gb capacity, so let's put in some making-of content, or maybe additional levels. Also, it really becomes important for the first-party studios to really come up with some envelope-pushing, genre-defining content."