It should be promoted as a ”career choice” - Sony is working with Universities over game courses already. They want Move and PSP in schools - LBP too!
”There has to be a public and private partnership. Promote digital content creation as a career choice – it shouldn’t’ be ‘I want to be a doctor or a lawyer,’ it should be ‘I want to be game designer’ as well,” said Sony CE UK managing director Ray Maguire.
He also revealed they’re ”doing work with government” to help put together university courses specific to the path of videogames development, whilst speaking at the Learning Without Frontiers conference in London.
Sony also want to create ”teacher packs” of LittleBigPlanet, as well as PlayStation Move and PSPs in schools presumably for younger kids. It’s unclear how they intend to utilise these as educational tools. LBP certainly helps nurture creativity and level design.
”We shouldn’t wait too much longer. A collaborative effort is absolutely required, it needs endorsement at the highest level, it needs someone in government to say we will do this,” continued Maguire. This isn’t pure social charity though - they could have ”the ability to make revenue out of this in the same way a textbook manufacturer does.”
Should the platform holders be welcomed into our schools?
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