Sony's Dille says Xbox 360 is not a sustainable product Options

[usr.c]

Here's part of the interview that the guys at Gamasutra did with the Senior VP of marketing for Sony's PlayStation, in which he says that he doesn't think the XBox 360 is a product that can sustain itself for 10 years and that HD DVD will be dead within months:

"I don’t want to be argumentative, but I take issue with Microsoft either having a long tail, or being profitable, because they’ve never done either. They’ve never made a dime in this business, number one, and number two, they’ve never had a tail. They’ve never been successful enough to have a tail! So the notion of a back half of the curve doesn’t exist for them. They stopped the Xbox and I kind of feel for the guy that bought an Xbox the month before they said ‘we’re out of business, we’re moving on.’

The reason I get a little emotional about that is it’s in stark contrast to our approach. If we’ve got something that says PlayStation, we’re going to stand behind it for 10 years, and deliver games like God of War II in the 7th year of the cycle.

With the Xbox 360 you’ve got an inconsistent design, some have a hard drive, some don’t, and none of them have Blu-Ray, and the HD-DVD will be out of business in a matter of months. Is this a 10 year product? And by the way, it doesn’t even work. Do they want to be selling it for 10 years and refurbishing them all for 10 more years? I don’t think that’s a 10 year product. You could disagree with me, or they could disagree with me, but I’d put that up against the PS3 any day."

Read the whole thing here.

[Renzoblade]

i agree with most of that, ps2 looks like it will outlive the xbox360, the ps2 is outselling everything even after years, its just a matter of price, no one in their right mind will buy a wii if the ps3 was the wiis price. Xbox360 is nice but i doubt it will outlive the ps3,or the ps2 for that matter.

The gaming world will most likely fold this like in the future.

ps3 vs xbox360

Since hardware is so close,it will be all about the games

Gran turismo vs forza
Killzone vs Halo

All great games in all respects, the wii cannot compete, ill give it 2-3 years before it sees a similar fate to gamecube. Wii will miss out on MOST major cross platform games,Grand theft auto etc. And will hurt it in its mid lifecycle.

People atm in this early stage of next gen buy the consoles on price, wii is the cheapest so why not get it?, i was about to buy one myself but i cant stand the childish colourfull games. Thats Nintendos best weapon,its price,and legacy.



To further consolidate my notion of "price sells", and the fact sales have nothing to do with the console itself.

PS3 Price Cut Sees 135% Sales Boost
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=14801

Sony says total PlayStation hardware sales (including the PlayStation 2 and PSP) have increased by 161 percent, with peripheral sales up by 60 percent and software sales by 15 percent.

When ps3 and xbox360 near wii price.

RIP

This post has been edited by Renzoblade: Jul 25 2007, 09:02 AM