Razer CEO: No PS3 Accessories Because I Barely Play Mine

[CriticalMiss]

I'm kind of suprised that they even make 360 peripherals, didn't Microsoft attempt to stop third party peripherals working at all or was that just harddrives? And I don't really think it's a great excuse to not make PS3 stuff when a lot of the games on the 360 are also on the Playstation, the excuse that he's doing it because he doesn't want to make money is kind of dumb. He could always give that tainted cash to charity if he feels so bad about making money from things he wouldn't personally use.

 

[omega 616]

"I design stuff I actually want as a gamer rather than sell stuff to gamers for money."

Well then, why do you run a company that makes gaming accessories? And why do you charge so much for them?

If it's a "I want it so I make it" kind of attitude, why wouldn't you just contain it to making it for yourself. To try and paint yourself as "I'm not in it for the money" while charging up to £135 for a mouse is fucking stupid.

I guess Bill Gates was just making things he wanted and not for the money, either

Massively missing his point.

His main motivation in designing a product is to make products that he would want to use, not ones designed purely to squeeze the most money out of people. He's not really saying he's not doing it to make money, he's saying that's not the main motivating factor in design. Also if profit isn't the driving force in your design you are fairly likely to come up with an expensive product. Hell as show of the result being more important than profit take one look at the Bugatti Veyron, a car that is a fantastic piece of engineering and design but that VW lose money on each one sold.

Plenty of people do jobs that make them money but that's not the reason they do that particular job.....

Yeah, VW lose out but I can't imagine Razer doing the same. The worlds fastest car takes a lot more ... everything, than making a gaming mouse.

Cars involve getting the aerodynamics right. I was reading somewhere that they couldn't change the shape of the Bugatti wing mirrors or the car would be either be unstable in a straight line or the front end would start under steering.

Does a mouse have to worry about any of that?

 

[CriticalMiss]

Does a mouse have to worry about any of that?

Part of me wishes that PC mice get put in to a wind tunnel during the design phase. You know, to check how easily cheetohs dust accumulates in the cracks or something.

 

[MorphingDragon]

Does a mouse have to worry about any of that?

Part of me wishes that PC mice get put in to a wind tunnel during the design phase. You know, to check how easily cheetohs dust accumulates in the cracks or something.

Eat Cheetos and other offending junk foods with chopsticks.

You wont regret it

 

[Darks63]

If anything got a rise out of people it was the way he said it not what he said. You know if he said what he said in a more diplomatic manner this prolly wouldn't be news at all. As it is he came off a bit douchey and made me reconsider getting a razor naga when my current mouse gets a little more malfunctiony.

But if he doesn't want to make ps3 stuff who cares its kind of late in the game for him to do so anyway the ps4 is on the horizon and maybe he'll switch and bring his stuff with him.

 

[MorphingDragon]

If anything got a rise out of people it was the way he said it not what he said. You know if he said what he said in a more diplomatic manner this prolly wouldn't be news at all. As it is he came off a bit douchey and made me reconsider getting a razor naga when my current mouse gets a little more malfunctiony.

But if he doesn't want to make ps3 stuff who cares its kind of late in the game for him to do so anyway the ps4 is on the horizon and maybe he'll switch and bring his stuff with him.

Support Roccat, the germans need the extra money to fund the coming shitstorm.

 

[Pinky's Brain]

It's news because it's a whopper of a lie ... if he could pick up extra sales simply by putting 10 cents worth of hardware into the exact same product he'd do it in a heart beat. Either Sony is overcharging for peripheral hardware licenses or Microsoft is making him a deal he can't refuse.

 

[elvor0]

Never heard of this company. And The Escapist, yet again, fails to provide any links or explanations in either this article, or previous Razor articles to explain who they are. However, the name of the person quoted looks Chinese; and if that's the case, leads me to presume they don't make very good quality products anyway.

Perhaps it's a good thing the PS3 isn't littered with more, cheap, knock-off crap.

They're er... pretty big actually. Don't make assumptions out of your ignorance. Granted if you don't PC game at all, you might not have heard of them, but otherwise it's pretty much a Logitech OR Razer (yeah there are others, but those are the two main ones) peripheral when you want gaming peripherals. Plus they're y'know also a USA based company. And their CEO is from Singapore.

Still, doesn't really mean you should have to come into a thread to announce that you've never heard of something and because of that it must be shit. No ones got enough time to do that for everything they haven't heard of, unless your days are very, very empty.

 

[Arkaijn]

Dust off your pitchforks people cus this thread just turned into PlayStation Fanville and rumor has it there's a Microsoft user in our midst.

This is why I don't own a Sony console, I don't want to be a part of this insane cult that worships anything Sony despite it's quality and curses everything that is not Sony and anyone that dares to express their lack of interest in the one true console.

Yes, the PS3 is a good console, but it's also a console that takes no chances or tries to innovate. They wait and see what the competition is doing, then they make their move.

One of those moves is their support of indie games, Sony didn't give a Frak about Indies until they saw Microsoft turning a profit on them.

Sony didn't believe online gaming would ever have a future on the console market... until they saw Microsoft making bank on the idea.

Sony thought motion controls were stupid, until the Wii outsold their console.

And the list goes on and on, the PS3 is good, owning one is like having a portal that takes you back three years in console development.

And the 360 only has a handful of shoddy exclusives? Last time I checked the PS3 only offered a good 2/3 as many games as the 360, but you're right, most of those are indeed shitty, you know why? They're self published indie titles made with the free 360 indie dev kit.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

...because hey, we ALL know that the key to business is to only sell what you yourself would want or, use.

Honestly though I'm not sure how much demand there would be for Razr accessories on Sony consoles. They would likely sell though but hey, what do I know about business.

 

[Terramax]

They're er... pretty big actually. Don't make assumptions out of your ignorance.

I'll make an assumption if the details aren't given as to why we should give a flying f about what a person from a company thinks. I made a contribution to the thread, highlighting the lack of information.

Never-the-less, doesn't mean you should have to come onto a forum and be anal about it, especially seeing as I emphasised it was AN ASSUMPTION. I never stated anything as a fact, therefore I don't need lectures from the likes of you, whom give no contributions to the thread at all.

 

[Terramax]

Never heard of this company. And The Escapist, yet again, fails to provide any links or explanations

Razer is a videogame peripheral company that makes controllers, headphones, fight sticks, mice and keyboards for the PC and Xbox 360.

Is this not an explanation of what this company does? It's literally in the first line of the article. What more do you want, man?

Yes, but WHY SHOULD WE CARE?

There are lord knows how many companies out there that make peripherals for consoles and PCs. What's this company to any other out there?

So suddenly a Chinese name means they automatically peddle lead and crappy products?

No, I'm saying that, IF the company is Chinese, I think there's a likely chance it makes crappy products. Not stating as gospel. Just stating, with my experience, that I think Chinese products are rubbish.

 

[RicoADF]

I always figured it was because you don't need to, PS3 supports universal usb peripherals unlike xbox which wont play ball with anything other than their stuff. I've used my logitech gamepad and a generic mouse on my PS3 when needed no issues, always figured razor didn't need to since their PC stuff will work on PS3.

 

[rob_simple]

There really is nothing the internet can't find a way to get outraged, over, is there?

The guy flat out says, 'I make stuff I like, as a gamer, rather than just shilling out any old shit for money' and everyone takes it as 'PS3 is shit, deal with it, fanboys.' This is exactly what people are always calling for publishers like EA to do --apply a human touch rather than business logic-- but since it doesn't benefit them in this case they have to shit all over the guy instead.

It's a very unusual business ethos, but it's much better than 'Microsoft paid us a fuckton of money to make this exclusive and I love money more than customer satisfaction' which is normally the reason for one company getting neglected over another.

 

[rob_simple]

This is why I don't own a Sony console, I don't want to be a part of this insane cult that worships anything Sony despite it's quality and curses everything that is not Sony and anyone that dares to express their lack of interest in the one true console.

Sorry, in what way is that at all unique to Sony? What you just described are fanboys, which exist for, not just every console, but pretty much every single thing on the planet. Hell, in the 90's in the UK, Kellogs changed the name of Coco Pops cereal to Choco Crispies and there was public outrage until they changed it back.

Don't tar us all with the same brush, my 360 gathers dust over my PS3 because I prefer my PS3's controller, online store (yeah, you don't have to be the first to do something to do it best) and the fact the Blu Ray function means not having to constantly swap out discs on bigger games.

I also happen to prefer their exclusive titles, but that is it; there's no blood pact; no sworn allegiance to all things Sony, they just make products that I like so I keep buying them.

 

[PoolCleaningRobot]

That's cool. I don't exactly need Razor to make off brand products for the ps3 anyway ¬_¬ . There are plenty of companies making good controllers like Power A and the ps3's blue tooth makes it compatible with any blue tooth head set. In addition to Sony's official products anyway

 

[Amaror]

So let me get this straight.
After we get shafted by ceo over ceo of nearly every company, just so they can make a bit more money, we get an ceo of a company who says that he only does stuff, when he is passionate about it and refuses to make anything that he isn't passionate about just to make more money and suddenly he is a selfish asshole, that makes overprized crap?

 

[Woodsey]

I have NEVER understood people like this. There is not a single damn thing the 360 has over the PS3, except for a handful of (subpar) exclusives. Even if you disagree on that part, the PS3 has everything the 360 has, but with MORE exclusives. the only real reason why I've seen people choose a 360 over a PS3 is because their friends have it. Which is arguably a testament to the 360's "stellar" online functions, but I disagree with this assessment. Instead, I think Microsoft has a MUCH MUCH better marketing campaign, especially for American audiences (and perhaps more shrewed business practices).

"I've never understood people who like things I don't."

OT: I snorted at the headline, but reading the actual justification... fair enough. No different to developers making the games they actually want to.