Oh, the internet drama. Phil Harrison's said many stupid things, but he claims he's been misquoted by a game site. Just listen to what he tells Newsweek's N'Gai Croal:

I want to clarify something. You put something on your blog about how comments from videogame executives can come back to haunt them. Of all the things I've said—and there are plenty of things should come back to haunt me—what you quoted was not one of them. The quote in question actually came from the GDC Europe interview that I did onstage with [Game Developers Conference director] Jamil Moledina a couple of years back. He was asking my view on Microsoft's two SKU strategy. The point that I made, which was not clearly reported in the Gamasutra piece [that Level Up cited], was that Microsoft had introduced two SKUs, they were effectively two different products: one with a hard drive and one without. And that while I wasn't going to talk about our particular SKU strategy at that time, whatever strategy we would adopt would not confuse developers and publishers, because the underlying platform would be with the hard drive in every machine. So I stand by what I said.

Yup. Phil Harrison, a very tall and powerful man, is attacking a game site for its journalistic integrity. For a quote from 2005. Gamasutra's Simon Carless took it personal and put up the defense over at blog GameSetWatch, clearing laying out why the original Gamasutra article was not totally off base and even talking about the Pope. Swing by GSW for the gory details. My take: Happy to know the execs are finally reading the sites. That, and "hi" Phil. Brian Ashcraft

Harrison Takes On Gamasutra [GameSetWatch]

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