Okay, so I realize this guy is just talking out of his ass and this doesn't necessarily mean anything. But just the fact that they could suggest something like this is bad enough. 1up talked to Sony Worldwide Studios president Phil Harrison, who made this remark about how the PS3 hard drive might be used.

"Well, I'll give you an example; Kazunori [Yamauchi, producer of the Gran Turismo series] would kill me for this: Imagine Gran Turismo shipping on a disc with one car and one track. And then you can browse, online, a dynamic circuit of vehicles that's growing every day because either the car manufacturers are adding new vehicles or we're adding new vehicles. And you can see a specific-type car that's being called up and say, "I think I'll play with that one. Let me download and play it." Maybe the business model allows you to play it for a day; maybe the business model allows you to own it forever. But that content is now yours on your hard drive. Or [maybe you could download] new tracks, new music, whole games."

Even if you don't take what he says seriously (which it's kind of hard to do at this point; ditto for Ken Kutaragi), these people should at least have the common sense not to talk like this in public. It's like saying "Hey, y'know what we could do, have a little minigun that pops out of the back of the PS3, kills your dog, kills your whole family. That's an option." They may never actually do it, but it still doesn't exactly sound good in an interview, does it?