The girly slapfight between Microsoft and Sony continues, with Sony Computer Entertainment boss Kaz Hirai stepping into the fray to asset that, somehow, PlayStation is still the official industry leader. Quite how he works that out is through spin so silky you'd think he was a spider.
"I'd like to think that we continue official leadership in this industry," states the polygonal Sony man. "It's difficult to talk about Nintendo because we don't look at their console as being competitors. They're a different world and we operate in our world - that's kind of the way I look at things.
"And with the Xbox - again, I can't come up with one word to fit. You need a word that describes something that lacks longevity."
I think most of us use the term "red-ring" to describe the Xbox 360's lack of longevity, but you take your time, Kaz. The man who looks a bit like a Quake character model from the nineties had even more to say, of course: "Last time I checked, they've never had a console that's been on the market for more than four or five years and we've committed to a ten year life cycle, so you do the math.
"And unless things go really bad," added Hirai, "there's no way that at the end of a life cycle our competition is going to have a higher install base."
So basically, Sony's argument right now is that they're still winning because they say the PS3 will last ten years and they're also pretending Nintendo doesn't exist. Wow, that's a great way of looking at things. By the same token, I have now decided that I am the games industry leaders with my own console, the Sterliplex Duo. I have won the console war via the gift of pretending, just like Sony.
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8:00 AM on 01.20.2009
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The Casuals that own a Wii aren't playing them
My PS2 collection greatly outnumbers my 360 games (105 versus 24), as does my PS1 collection (45 there), and I only own 3 Xbox games. So I'm not some sort of Xbox fanboy. I just haven't been interested enough in the PS3 exclusives so far.
That said, I still wanna go out for beers with Kaz.
Sony's mistake was in pushing the PS3 as a Blu-ray player instead of a console, which I'm sure did not sit well with PS3 developers. "Wait...is it a Blu-ray player or a console?" And when HD DVD caved (grrrrrr....) Sony still kept talking shit about Blu-ray in stead of switching back to talk about a console. That's what allowed Microsoft to walk right over them.
Ok, really, both the PS3 and 360 are good consoles, but I think they both should focus on making them better instead of pissing contests with the other guy.
I find it amusing that the PS2 and PS3 are in competition with each other. As direct as the PS3 vs 360, no, but let's look at it this way: Joe Everyman walks into a store and sees the PS2 for $130 or whatever, and the PS3 for $399 or whatever (I don't pay attention to the prices, sue me). Now, as he wants a gaming console, he's naturally going to go with the cheaper system if he's budget-conscious. And hey, there's a whole bunch of games for the PS2 out now, including a great array of titles that are $20 new, and many more to be found cheaply through sales and second-hand stores. Sure, the graphics aren't stellar, but who plays games to be wowed by the visuals? *dodges tomato*
Axing the BC was Sony's worst move with the PS3. They might be able to backpedal like they did with "rumble isn't the future." And hey, I can always wait until the PS4 to play PS3 games! Maybe...
Nintendo are leading, MS second and Sony third...
They need to get over it, sack this man and use the yearly salary saving in cutting the price of the PS3.
I have a Wii - I gots two games and a Virtual Console game on it (Mega Man 9). All three of which don't get much play time.
The 306 - I have 10 games for it... but yet again I didnt keep many games on my PS2 for some reason either. It does still get constant play time.
The PS3 - I still don't have one, I plan on getting one, but I dunno what I'd be buying for it. Uncharted has been looking rather good to me lately, and to cut down on the amount of disks that are going to be released for Final Fantasy 13.. I might end up getting it for PS3 instead of 360 anyways.
Either way, since I work for GameStop, in the last year or so, people buy the Wii's then just dont play them... 360 has more games, and PS3's stocks are dropping like a rock.
I dunno. I still think 360 is winning 'overall' with the Wii in second place. IMO
The PS3 is still outselling the 360 over similar time frame sales figures. (ie, Sony has sold more PS3's in its first two years on the market than the amount of 360's MS sold.)
And I don't think it's a stretch to say that the PS3 will be on the market longer than the 360. MS doesn't support it's "last gen" systems and Sony is know to do exactly that.
Now, whether that type of data pushes you to spend twice as much on a PS3 than you would on a 360 is another matter entirely...
Exacery, you just shortened down his whole speech, well done that man!
trying again...
That being said, Wii is winning, and I play my PS2 the most. Second to the PS3. MS is only good at ripping people off, just look at the history of Windows.
The console that isn't the Wii that's in almost every home in the world.