Its kinda dissapointing to see Phil Harrison leave. He came out with some good points and came across as an actual gamer, not some suit waiting for his vast paycheck spewing mindless crap (Jack Tretton).

Well, good luck to him wherever he goes. He has been an influential figure for Sony over the years so he should do well somewhere else.

He was a tit. I will never forget the "rumble is last-gen" crap he came out with. I lost any faith I may have had in the goon that day. I even delayed getting a PS3 until I was certain it was coming back- it's an essential part of the gaming experience. I don't like being TOLD that it's NOT and I am WRONG by someone who has lost touch with the gamers. I knew I was right about rumble and it would have to return. I knew it, but Phil Harrison didn't. Therefore, what the hell was he doing in charge of PlayStation? Dropping the 60GB, dropping BC, lies, massive damage; all things that I personally would never let happen had I been I in his position. The man's a tit, and nearly killed PS3 in the end. Thank goodness the machine itself is good enough to get over the lies from Sony suits like Igor there. Good riddance. All the best for the future, Phil, but you were awful.

Let be frank - from a business standpoint Phil was not a great business head.

His last few years after the PS2 success has been a roller coaster of speaking engagements and poorly thought out off the cuff comments.

Some of us in the industry have never been happy how much of the praise Phil has taken on himself for Sony games success - in particular the eye toy, which he claimed was his idea only to avoid being drawn on the point in later interviews.

We also have to look at the internal difficulties and management failure that Phil has generated since PS2 - he did start to believe his own hype and that cause a collapse in moral at Sony that has reflected in the poor performance of PS3.

It is a sacking - I know a number of the media owe Phil big-time, and will continue to owe him - but lets be clear he was let go, and has been ejected. It looks like this was planned since the shake-up in Japan (sacking of PS3 head). Its just interesting to see if Phil knew it was coming this month, or wanted to leave on his own terms so made the contraversal statements at GDC?

It is good to see Phil go - along with Jane at SCi, Larry from Atari and Rod soon to go from Codemasters we could see a removal of the old guard in the UK business - investors wanting professionalism from their management.

So lets get this right:

- doctored CV joining SCE
- arrogant business style
- fought against Immersion
- reason for no rumble on PS3
- numerous development studio spats

Good bye arrogant management style - hello Next-Gen survival!

Er... dropping backwards compatibility and the 60Gb SKU was not Phil Harrison's decision. It was the top dogs in Japan.

Though there is no way Harrison nearly killed the PS3.