Sony UK's managing director Ray Maguire has called out rival consoles, arguing that while the PlayStation 3 is still full of potential, other machines are already hitting their spiral period.
The comment came from the same discussion which saw Maguire justify Home's delay, where he also suggested that a lengthy development process leads to the creation of the most powerful gaming platform in history. Maguire is not a man who minces his words when talking about the glory of PlayStation.
"Yes, we might take a bit longer sometimes to bring a product to market, but when we do, we bring you the most powerful gaming platform ever to hit - and it will be something that will around for a very long time," waxed the Sony spokesman. "It's nowhere near even halfway through its lifecycle, and I could argue that some other competing formats are on their way down right now."
Sony has argued for a long time that the PS3 will outlast both rival consoles, but I think the platform holder rails to realize that such a boast is not exactly a good thing. If the PS3 is still Sony's principal platform when a new Wii SKU and a next-generation Xbox hit, it shall be the Black Box o' Blu-ray which is looking obsolete and past its prime.
Congratulations to Sony for digging its heels in and sitting in the trench for a long fight. However, moving slowly in an industry that passes you by at light speed is not always the wisest of decisions.
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2:43 PM on 11.10.2008
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It simply becomes a matter of where is PS3's limit. I think it would actually be nice if Xbox got a HD medium along with more advanced power. Then we can see third party games make a huge leap in graphics and tech.
That's the biggest thing holding back both systems, especialy the ps3. All this time devlopers spend working around ram limitations is insane. Was ram really that expensive when these machines were speced?
I'd take a 1GB of ram over bluray, or whatever any day of the week.
Exactly. It's 'nowhere near even halfway' through its life cycle because the architecture is too complex for any developer to want to utilize it fully.
And that's all.
and stop working on home. no one gives a rat's ass about home. it's a stupid fucking idea, and everyone working on it now wants to kill themselves because they know that the only reason they're working on it is because some corporate fucker higher up doesn't want to admit a mistake.
damnit sony - it's time for a purge of management.
I couldn't say it better myself.
Kinda hard to flex if there is nothing backing it up.
The other consoles are at their top? Well no shit, unlike Sony, Nintendo and X-Box have been doing what they are suppose to be doing...making games.
Yeah, keep talking the trash Sony, because you may have been pretty awesome last gen, sure are slacking it off.
I have Warhawk, MGS4, Uncharted, Motorstorm, Pixel Junk Eden and Monsters, R1, R2, Rock Band 2, and Wipeout HD just to name a few. All awesome games, and almost all exclusive to the PS3.
So shut up and game on everyone, all systems are awesome game platforms. Just pick your poison and have a blast.