Phew! For a moment I thought Jeff Minter had sold out; when I was on the previous news story, all I could see of the link was:

Jeff Minter jump ... ti-Sony Bandwagon

I thought it was saying he'd jumped on the Sony bandwagon! The guy's definitely on the mad side of sanity, but he's never given into commercialisation, so I was wondering what could have changed his mind.

Turns out there was nothing to worry about, nice to see someone in the industry speak their mind openly.

Damn right! Yak steadfastly backs loser formats*;

Konix Multisystem ... check!
Jaguar ... check!
Nuon ... check!

Even his last mainstream project, Unity, was on the "loser" format of the current-gen, the Gamecube ... and that project got canned.

I love the guy as in industry veteran/legend/enigma, but he sure knows how to back the wrong horse.

* of course, now he's working on XBL Arcade stuff - how's that for selling out?

Good to see that not everyone is blindly following Sony this time around, even if that someone happens to be fried out of his mind.

Who's Geoff Minter (I don't trust wikipedia and cannot be bothered to wade through all the spam on google)

There's probably loads out there with some very detailed info on him; helps if you spell his name right when you search, btw. Some basics, in the 80's he wrote several computer games, usually featuring llamas and other animals as the protagonists, eventually establishing his company Llamasoft. He's done the odd game over the years, but his current focus is on what he calls "light-synths", co-ordinated/synchronised light and music systems; I believe he has one installed in the Xbox 360, when you play a CD/music track it displays a light show which you can control with the pad.