Disclaimers have a tendency to strongly resemble either whining or lying.
But the food was excellent, and the metal notebooks almost made up for the lack of booze. If Sony would have simply thrown this into one of their speeches, it would not only have gone undetected given the general context, but it would have given them some sorely needed theory that wasn't written by profit margin gurus. And while the statement may have had some merit when he used it to describe the relationship between television and cinema, the teleogical structures that allowed for such a reading have long since evaporated. To claim that FMV and cinematics in games are a reactionary hearkening back to cinema, and that CGI effects in movies are anachronistic, as one must claim under the constraints of the argument, is perhaps not the most beneficial way to look at the thing. But even the latter two readings are still somewhat bound by theory that is not broad enough to account for everything the E3 had to offer.