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Mark Cerny is a masterful orator
- Thread starter Black Chamber
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Obama is on another level and one of the best speakers ever. Let's not mention him in the same breath as Cerny.
If Cerny was in a conference call with my group, we would literally cut him off and ask him to send meeting minutes and a pptx. He's terrible at capturing the audience.
I dont know if he's a standout orator. But I like him, and he did pretty awesome job breaking down the thought process behind the architecture in a very understandable way in a low key slide presentation. I know many people were disappointed thinking it would be a full reveal, but I thought it was really interesting, especially the approach to 3D audio. Definitely makes me excited for whats to come!
I had to force myself to finish it. Ken Kutaragi had a cool T-Rex demo to show the devs in 95. This guy just brought numbers. He might as well been using an overhead projector.
His oratory skills were the only thing that kept me up at 3am for a whole hour. Double enentendre unintended.
I sense infatuation, in a good way?I just got around to watching PlayStation's "The Road To PS5" presentation - and I can't believe how fast it blew by - even though it was nearly an hour in length!
Mark Cerny is who I wish was my high school teacher - and I mean that for every single class that I took...as a matter of fact, I wish he was my every college professor and I wouldn't mind if he was my life coach! Everything that he says is eloquent, succinct and to the point and he words his vernacular in such a way that it is not only easy to compartmentalize and understand, but enjoyable to listen to.
I'm a reasonably intelligent person, but after listening to him explain things during this presentation, I feel like I could have designed the PlayStation 5.
If you haven't seen it yet, you need to watch this - he is absolutely incredible and is an unbelievably amazing asset to Sony.
To you, Mark Cerny:
Yeah, he's great. And I hate ASMR.
Could listen to him talk about interfaces all day long
I'm on team "could listen to him talk about anything all day." Would I be lulled to sleep, in a good way? Most probably.
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i was not the audience for a talk like that, but man i would listen to cerny read the yellow pages.
Eh, I think 'ok' is understating it. I don't think it's that common to have someone who is 'super smart' and able to communicate their expertise really clearly in a public forum.
He had a way too monotonic voice to sound human. Not mentioning those strangely disturbing smiles he'd throw out here and there to call him a masterful orator but at least the content of his presentation was interesting and we've got to learn more about the console.
Yeah, Cerny is great for technical presentations. I prefer his calm, monotonous delivery, it lets my mind focus on the actual content. He's up there with Carmack.
He definitely has a way of talking that makes something mundane sound interesting. His unique way of speaking seems slightly odd at first, but then draws you in and makes you quietly interested. The way he described the SSD and variable frequency made me interested in this tech that otherwise would sound as dry as cardboard.
how is it any different than the praising of Phil Spencer all the time or Shihei Yoshida?
people have their favorites get over it
He has a relaxing voice and certainly knows his craft but damn if he is not terrible at making people exited for something. Reminds me of Reggie a bit. Obviously loves what he does but he is more likely to send me to sleep than he is getting me hyped for new tech haha.
I honestly don't like the way he speaks or presents. I do respect the hell out of him for all the work he's put into the Playstations over the years.
It's always been fairly unsettling and in some cases like the old "tub thread" and this one borders into genuine creepiness.
The guy doesn't even have a pleasant voice to listen in general (the user that said he sounds like a serial killer was pretty damn on point) and still there are people here describing it as a god's gift to human ears.
And whoever said "It's the same for Phil Spencer" is full of shit, frankly.
I've read what people post about Spencer most of the times. At top you have comments boiling down to "He's a true bro of the Xbox community".
None of this cult-like nonsense.
I agree with the OP.
I know nothing of the things he was talking about, and yet it all made sense.
Perfect rhythm, pace, elocution...
Kudos to him.
I know nothing of the things he was talking about, and yet it all made sense.
Perfect rhythm, pace, elocution...
Kudos to him.
He has a good radio voice but that presentation was a ???. Dude uses technical jargons like no tomorrow. As a result, someone like me who wants to be persuaded by Sony into buying a PS5 ends up giving zero shit about it, regardless of how Cerny talks about all the impressive tech behind PS5.
I totally agree. I love his tone of voice. He comes across as very friendly, calm and rational. I also loved how he did not simplify the story and stayed technical without much use of buzzwords. I had to Google some of the terms he was throwing around, but the presentation was very insightful to me nonetheless.
He's very polished no umms and ers or ahs but he's not a master orator, he simply doesn't have the voice for it. It's too flat, good oration includes emphasising key points through inflection. He doesn't do that at all.
Yeah, that's the first thing I noticed during the presentation. Did he ever stutter or mess up during that entire hour of constant talking?
I think it's because, generally speaking, explaining technical concepts and remaining engaging whilst doing so is extremely tough.
Right, Cerny is a fraud who tricks people to invest in the PlayStation ecosystem so he can take their money and not deliver their product. What a perfect comparison. /s
On the one hand you have people describing his voice as heavenly, on the other you have people describing it like a serial killer. Maybe you're both crazy.