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SCEA Launches Official Developer Blog

Microsoft has Gamerscore, Major Nelson, and umpteen other blogs. Sony’s European division has ThreeSpeech. Now, Sony’s American employees have their own blog: PlayStation.Blog. Says PR manager Patrick Seybold in the inaugural entry: Now, what we’ve learned, perhaps the hard way, is that a blog like this is really about you and the things you want […]

PsblogMicrosoft has Gamerscore, Major Nelson, and umpteen other blogs. Sony's European division has ThreeSpeech. Now, Sony's American employees have their own blog: PlayStation.Blog.

Says PR manager Patrick Seybold in the inaugural entry:

Now, what we’ve learned, perhaps the hard way, is that a blog like this is really about you and the things you want to hear, share and discuss with us. With that in mind, you’ll notice that comments are enabled - and encouraged – so tell us what you want to see here and we’ll do our best to make it happen.

"Perhaps the hard way" there would seem to refer to All I Want For Christmas Is A PSP. Transparency seems to be working for Microsoft; can Sony replicate the success of their blogging efforts?

Besides Seybold, other SCEA employees who have posted thus far include R&D director Klaus Hofrichter and PlayStation Network manager Eric Lempel. Will PlayStation.Blog truly encourage community and dialogue, or will it end up being a one-way conduit of pre-screened information? Who knows. But Sony really needs to shore up its community, so this is a positive step for them.