Jez San，英国的软件天才。即使位居高管仍致力于编程，他的代码常凭借在编程前沿技术的突破令人眼前一亮。
Jez San1966年3月29日出生于英国。Jez是Argonaut游戏公司负责人。80年代初，在16岁时就开办了自己的公司Argonaut。随着公司的发展，Argonaut分为Argonaut Games和ARC International微处理器公司。Jez任前者的CEO，并作为后者的股东。
Jez在18岁合作编写了第一本书"Quantum Theory"并创作了Argonaut的第一个游戏"Skyline Attack"。1986年Jez创作了Argonaut第一个16位游戏"StarGlider"，被认为时第一个流行的3D电脑游戏。Jez帮助公司和其它许多游戏商建立了合作，例如Microsoft, Nintendo, Sega和Sony，还有很多出版商如Fox，Disney，Hasbro和Electronic Arts。Jaz是游戏开放研讨会和论坛的咨询顾问。Conference,是TIGA (The Independent Games Association)和投资顾问公司如New Media Spark的创始人。
个人投资了多个游戏，启动过多项技术运作，如video compression, digital privacy, next-generation cellular communications和其它游戏创作技术。
有兴趣者科访问Jez San开创的3D网上扑克网站：PKR.com。
个人简介编辑本段回目录
Jeremy 'Jez' San OBE (born 29 March 1966) is an English game programmer who founded Argonaut Software as a teenager in the 1980s. He is also a writer and helped design the Super FX chip for the Super NES.
San's interest in computing began at age 12 when he bought his first computer, a TRS-80. Within a year he taught himself assembly language, which he soon mastered for several chipsets.
San started his career in software by founding Argonaut Software in 1982 as a way to get software consulting jobs with large companies. He worked on security systems with British Telecom and Acorn. In 1984, he started developing his first game, Skyline Attack for the Commodore 64 and also co-wrote a book called Quantum Theory (a book about the Sinclair QL).
His first major success was his game Starglider for the Atari ST and the Commodore Amiga. It sold hundreds of thousands of copies (earning him £2 per copy in royalties) and was one of the first popular 3D computer games. The money helped launch Argonaut as a larger company that started hiring other people in 1986.
In the late 1980s, Argonaut signed a deal with Nintendo. He attracted Nintendo's attention because Argonaut was the first developer to successfully design 3D modeling on the NES and the Game Boy. X was published by Nintendo as the first 3D Game Boy game. San helped develop the first 3d graphics accelerator known as the Super FX chip that made Star Fox possible on the Super NES.
In 1996 Argonaut received external funding from Apax Partners and was listed publicly on the London Stock Exchange in 2000. San's stake was reduced from 90% in 1996 to almost 50% post AGT's ipo in March 2000. San also helped found ARC International ARK.L when it was spun out from Argonaut in 1998 and was its largest shareholder on ipo. San made substantial share sales during the flotation by Goldman Sachs and Warburg and in 2007 has fully exited ARC
San received an OBE in 2002, the first explicitly awarded for services to the computer game industry. Since that time, others have been honoured including Peter Molyneux, Ian Livingstone and Jane Cavanagh.
After announcing a substantial loss in August 2004, Argonaut Group PLC suspended trading of its shares in October and appointed administrators for Argonaut Software Ltd, Morpheme Ltd and Just Add Monsters Ltd -the wholly owned subsidiaries of the PLC. The administrators sold Morpheme and Just Add Monsters back to Jez San and the other founders as ongoing businesses, while Argonaut Software Ltd was eventually liquidated. [1]
In November 2004, Just Add Monsters became Ninja Theory and continued the development of PlayStation 3 first-party game Heavenly Sword, which launched some three years later in Christmas 2007. Also in 2004, Morpheme became Morpheme Wireless Ltd for awhile before San left, was eventually consumed by Eidos/SCi before being shut down in 2009.
After taking a hiatus from the computer games industry in 2004, San founded Crunchy Frog Ltd, which in 2005 became online poker company PKR. San serves as President, having hired his replacement with CEO Malcolm Graham, formerly of the Ritz Casino and AntFactory. PKR offers a unique 3d perspective for online poker, and operates in legal territories in Europe, Asia and Canada but does not operate in the USA, where online gaming is a grey area. PKR has an entry in PokerScout PokerScout - a gaming industry tracking and analysis site.
In 2008 San co-founded a mobile application developer and publisher Origin8 with fellow game industry colleague Foo Katan. The company produces iPhone and Blackberry software, and has offices in London.
San discusses other investments in CodePlay and Anthropics in magazine TheChilli and is also listed on imdb IMDB
San is a life member of BAFTA, and was an Advisory board member of the GDC and TIGA for several years.
浅析PlayStation3:一场必输的战争？编辑本段回目录
蓝光是过去一年来又一个被质疑无数的对象，最初，蓝光被认为是DVD的当然继承者，但是其竞争对手——由东芝研制的HD-DVD高清晰系统，已经率先投放市场，而索尼自己规格的蓝光播放机，却在美国的上市日期一拖再拖。
更糟糕的是:三星先行推出的BD-P1000碟机，在发售后的市场反应，比想象中的还要惨，因为碟机芯片里竟然存在"错误的系统设置"。
Jez San尽管HD-DVD上市后也不怎么受宠，但它已经受到了来自Intel与微软的支持，然而，两家IT巨头对蓝光却表示出了担忧，他们认为蓝光阵营对防复制的担保，有可能妨碍他们对Viiv与Media Center PC的画面技术进行相关研究。
再一个就是价格问题，由于采用了Cell与BR等新技术，索尼早就表示过PS3肯定要比竞争对手Xbox360与Wii卖得贵，最终制定出了499美元(低端版)与599美元(完全版，约合425英镑)的价格，比Xbox360贵50%，两倍于Wii，三倍于PS2。
面对网上日臻白热化的争论，索尼非但没想去浇熄它们，反而又浇了一把油。SCEA总裁兼CEO平井一夫最近在杂志中扬言道:"每当我们开辟了一条新路，回过头来便会发现微软就跟在我们后面。我简直不知该如何摆脱这些家伙，我希望他们能提出自己的战略思路，但他们却似乎总是要沿着我们已走过的老路。"
这样的言论只能说明平井一夫不懂历史，众所周知，微软是第一个在主机中加入硬盘的厂商，还推出了Xbox Live这样划时代的网络服务(或者也可以说微软和索尼在这方面学的都是Dreamcast)，微软还首次实行了主机的全球同步发售。微软还特别为Xbox360推出两个价位的零售版本——尽管这遭到了索尼的冷嘲热讽，但它居然最后也依样学了这一套。
市场分析所Forrester Research的一位专门研究消费技巧的研究员Paul Jackson说:"对于网上这些针对PS3的负面报道，并不能作过高的估计，关于PS3的故事还会越来越糟，这简直就是一场真正的战斗。"
但索尼却听之任知，不为所动。微软有Major Nelson这样深深扎根于网络社区的"消息传播者"，他们会经常向外界透露一些有关微软游戏开发进程中的一些小花絮。相较之下，索尼通常显得很安静，有人透露说，索尼游戏开发者之所以默不做声，是因为他们都害怕那个Phil Harrison的愤怒。
不过也有人称Harrison是个"非常不错的家伙"，那么这位索尼全球工作室总裁是如何评价PS3当前状况的呢?
"一切运转良好，从开发商的角度来看，索尼正在全速前进中，已有超过1万套开发机被发放。"
他还补充说:"开发商现在手中拿的就是最终版的硬件，尽管它的操作系统将来还会做一些升级——这也没什么大不了的。新的手柄现在也已发到开发者手中，换句话说，所有有待解决的问题都OK了。"
开发商当前可利用的PS3开发硬件，包含了BR驱动器。"开发者可以在他们的PC上使用BR烧录机，并正在制作第一批采用蓝光碟片的游戏。"这与之前有关PS3软件需要硬盘或其它媒介过渡的说法完全相对。
不过，BR格式在最近几个月里一直是争议的焦点，毕竟，它的"打败HD-DVD"的最初企图并没有实现。
但是，Harrison对任何围绕PS3的负面消息都一带而过，包括不太顺的BR。他称:"今天在美国已有100多部可供观看的BR电影。还有100多款游戏在开发中，所有重要的第三方都已明确表示要全力支持PS3。"
由于开发成本的关系，开发者的态度成了一个关键问题。
"现在，开发一款电脑游戏所冒的风险比过去大得多。它们必须达到和大预算电影一样的品质——包括演员，动画，音乐设计等等方面。"StarGlider的作者Jez San说道。
Jez过去曾是Argonaut Software(已倒闭)的创始人，现在则是PS3重头大作<天剑>的开发商的投资人。
"在过去，一款游戏花费了一百万美元就已经很了不得了，"San说到，"而现在为一个平台开发一款游戏就要花费5到1千万美元，如此一来，谁也失败不起。"
Jez San可以说是业界过往这二十年最好的向导之一。他认为PS3会赢，"但原因只有一个，那就是蓝光，"San说，"我认为:一台次世代游戏主机，外加一台可播放高清晰电影的次世代DVD机，实在是太令人无法抗拒了，哪怕它的价格很昂贵。"
"记住，价格会随时间与销量的变化而改变。PS3刚出来是个什么价并不重要。重要的是，它将来会降到什么价位。"
不过，Forrester分析所的Paul Jackson却认为:"鉴于蓝光电影还很缺乏，蓝光驱动器并不会成为一个左右主机销量的决定性要素。就当前而言，消费者并不会要求比DVD更高规格的播放器。但是，它仍然会是一股不可忽视的力量。更多的人显然会去购买PS3，而不是花一千多美元去购买一台昂贵许多的蓝光碟机。因此，索尼仍有很大机会再度登顶。但这将会是一场艰苦的战争。许多消费者一定还对曾经的那场Beta与VHS的制式之争记忆犹新。"
Jackson同时也承认:"索尼究竟会何时降价还是一个疑问。只有当你占据了极大的市场后，才有可能将价格降到300/200美元。"这很困难，尤其是考虑到PS3部件成本之和可能在700至880美元之间(根据iSuppli[市场调研公司]与Merrill Lynch[证券投资银行]估计)。
尽管亏本卖主机不是什么新闻，但每台主机亏200美元，1000万台主机就要亏掉20个亿，这是索尼不得不细算的一笔帐，况且索尼游戏部门刚刚发布的财政报告称:在最近一个财政季度，已经蒙受了2。315亿美元的经营性亏损。
是的，微软游戏部门也在亏本，但它却亏得起。
现在，索尼又在加速准备它的下一个重大宣传活动，这场战役将以2006年度的TGS为起点，久多计划将在展会上作名为"PS3缔造次世代娱乐"的主题演讲。
如果一切顺利，紧随TGS不久，索尼便将迎来11月11日日本，11月17日欧美的盛大PS3首发式。
缺货将导致PS3在圣诞节期间脱销，但是真正的战斗将在2007年打响，也许在这场战争中不会有赢家，就像San所指出的那样，这还是有史以来第一次所有三部主机都各有各的独特魅力，它们不再"雷同"。
换句话说，游戏业有可能形成真正的三足鼎立态势，而三分之势一旦成矣，那么这场次世代战争就实在是太有看头了。
