Well he should be applauded for his commitment to sticking by what he said. Having said that, he does say very positive things about sony and his relationship with them, despite having left the company (something he acknowledges that he was preparing to do anyway). Its just a bit strange. He seems blown away that he got fired for his comments and given that they were supposedly checked by people within sony for NDA and tone - I can imagine that this would be a bit out of the blue for him. I guess that a sony employee could be seen to be bashing their own console (despite "only" being a artist) is unexceptable to them and duely action was taken regardless of the relationship etc.

Seams quite harsh from what he has said... which is not a lot. Although I suppose it's never going to go down very well if you say your rivals are better than the company you work for.

Maybe Sony where just using him as a example, so people in the future don't go posting articles on the interweb about how s**t Sony is in the future.

I suppose this is a bad thing if you want people giving honest options about the company they work from, you will just get people giving you the company marketing line from now on.

Major Nelson (Larry Hryb) is “Xbox Live Director of Programming” and he's got his own blog and podcast about the 360. This is tenuous and slightly on a tangent so bear with me, he talks about things (not just the 360 but PSP, DS and the PC as well - though not to the same extent) from a design/ internal perspective and is covered by Microsofts NDA. His podcasts do seem to tow the party line, but he still does balance things and he does go into the old consoles and what he;s playing on the handhelds (although not really against the ps3 cos he just says that he doesn't know anything and thus can't really comment). Whilst I take everything with a pinch of salt, its nice to have someone on the inside even being slightly critical of problems/ issues with the 360 or simply being aware of them and taking the time to respond. Sony would do well to coerce someone into doing something similar.

I don't think sony have shot themselves in the foot over this, it was a no-win situation for them. If he'd been allowed to stay on, it'd have created dissent within the company. Its strange how such a nice guy (he doesn't appear to be your regular nutter) with (what appeaered to be) friendly links to sony upper management could have caused such a fuss. Especially when he acknowledges that he's basing his comments on released information, available to all.

feck it.its not a big deal.
the only thing Sony accomplished by doing this is generated some very cold publicity and lose most likely a very talented artist.

Yeah I browse to Major Nelson's blog, its quite good and the best place to find info on new content on Live Arcade and Marketplace.

Does anyone have a link to the original article he wrote? Its been pulled down from the original site