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.

[glitch]

Ah Renzo. I can always count on you to totally dismiss Nintendo in their most highest-selling, most-profit-making, revolutionary years on the back of coming last place twice. The simple fact is that Nintendo have brought out a new console that costs less significantly less than the "competition" with a completely innovative control scheme.

I may quote 1up a lot, but I'm going to do it a again;

Sure, the Wii has seen months go up and down, but the difference is clear. There are plenty of PS3s and Xbox 360s on shelves -- there are no Wiis. Most at 1UP have not actually seen a Wii in the wild and Nintendo has announced they don't expect that to change -- ever, apparently -- in 2007. A purposeful shortage? Probably. Wii's made of old hardware and they've known how popular the machine is for some time. At this point, there's no excuses; Nintendo is doing this out of own self interest. Can you blame them? Right now, no one can tell them what to do; what they're doing keeps working.

The numbers don't show any reason to expect a change in 2007. In fact, with Super Mario Galaxy, Metroid Prime 3: Corruption and Super Smash Bros. Brawl coming in 2007, Nintendo will start roping in the on-the-fence Nintendo fans who didn't buy into the whole Wii thing at first. Combine that with the release Wii Fit, destined to be the darling of the mainstream media for the next year, and no one else has a chance. Xbox 360 and PS3 have great lineups for holiday 2007, but there's no stopping Wii.

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3161611

I think part of the PS3 sales boost is due to the fact that this isn't technically a real price drop, but a stock clearance. They plan releasing a higher priced PS3, which coincidentally lacks the emotion engine (which allows for a more complete backward compatibility for PS2 games) and gamers want to get it while they can.

The Wii has already "won" this console war. Not solely due to the price point but because of its ability to attract new and former gamers. Being honest, I'm not too fond of the Wii, I'd happily stick with my GameCube, but I admire its position to be completely unique, to be completely "mainstream" and innovative.

This post has been edited by glitch: Jul 30 2007, 03:09 PM