In an interview with Fortune, SCEA CEO Jack Tretton has taken some serious shots at both Nintendo and Microsoft. Tretton has stated that Sony is experiencing its best year ever, and he is confident mainly because of the tech that is inside the PS3, which he believes outclasses its rivals.
“If you’re really going to sustain technology for a decade, you have to be cutting edge when you launch a platform. Here we are 4 years into the PlayStation 3, and it’s just hitting its stride. We’ll enjoy a long downhill roll behind it because the technology that was so cutting edge in 2006 is extremely relevant today and is conspicuously absent in our competition.”
In terms of the Xbox 360 and Wii, Tretton had the following to say:
“They’re starting to run out of steam now in terms of continuing to be relevant in 2011 and beyond. I mean, you’ve gotta be kidding me. Why would I buy a gaming system without a hard drive in it? How does this thing scale? Motion gaming is cute, but if I can only wave my arms six inches, how does this really feel like I’m doing true accurate motion gaming?
Our view of the ‘Game Boy experience’ is that it’s a great babysitting tool, something young kids do on airplanes, but no self-respecting twenty-something is going to be sitting on an airplane with one of those. He’s too old for that.”
Where do I start? From a personal viewpoint, I have often talked to others regarding the Xbox 360 and storage space in a DVD, and don’t even get me started on the 512mb of memory included with the Wii. Hardly a selling point.
What I vehemently disagree with is the “Game Boy experience” comment – it seems a tad…outdated. I actually feel slightly put out that because I own a DS it has been implied that I’m not a ‘self-respecting’ gamer. Oh, and referring to all gamers as “he”? The 90s called Jack, they want their ideologies back.
Source: Fortune
Louise
Well… i’m going on a plane next month for a 9 hour flight. I’m 20, and damn right i’m bringing my DS to play on the plane.
kill_zide
LOL Tretton’s trash talking
topgear
I wanna know what questions he got asked and I want to see the full interview. It sounds like it’s being taken out of context.
jayjay119
While some of his points are glorified, they do have basis. PS3 is experiencing it’s best year, 360 up until now does appear to be running out of steam with the serious lack of exclusives and heavy push on kinect and Nintendo are seeing heavy decreases in their Wii and 3DS sales, but that does not mean Nintendo are not a valid gaming platform nor that MS don’t have something up their sleeve later in the year.
jayjay119
edit above where I wrote 3DS, I obviously meant the DS and DSi.