Gamasutra – Special: Kutaragi Talks Future Of Gaming On PS3

[Kutaragi] suggested an "open environment" for the networked world of games – in other words, all hardware manufacturers would be able to use this networked world, much as the Internet is an open protocol used by everyone. His grand vision is clearly a major shared ‘open network’ for all game resources. This may explain some of Sony’s antipathy to Xbox Live-like managed services – Sony apparently believes that in order for everyone to reap the benefits, the online systems must be open to all.

This stands in contrast to Sony other DRM-laden approaches to the universe, music, movies, and even the production of console titles themselves.

But it sounds like "content" is about to become king again. Boy, wouldn’t it be great if we got past content as simply more and more digitial art? Pretty soon, we’re going to have more instances of every possible object than we can handle.