December 6th, 2006
Sony: Wii is a core gaming device. It is a more fun, intuitive sort of product to pick up
This should be put in the "did they really say that" category.
Here's a quote by Nic Foster, general manager for Sony Australia & New Zealand that was published in the Sydney Morning Herald:
"Wii is a core gaming device. It's a more fun, intuitive sort of product to pick up, where the PS3 is a broader entertainment solution." [emphasis added]
Loading ...That seems like a very odd thing for Sony to come out and say. Foster goes on to describe the PS3 as:
"… you can have your fun, enjoyable gaming…but then you have a whole suite of other applications…such as Blu-ray media playback, the ability to access your music, access your photos and the interoperability with the PlayStation Portable."
It goes on:
"Gamers are extremely aware of what they're after and what they want. So gamers will already have a very good understanding of what PlayStation 3 offers versus what Wii offers and many of them will probably have both devices." [emphasis added]
So the PS3 isn't the ultimate games console that we all believed it would be. This goes to prove that Sony is seeing the PS3 more as a media center than a games console and this could be where the PS3 has gone wrong. In an earlier blog entry I made here I linked to an article by Seth Schiesel of the New York Times who had this message for Sony:
"Howard Stringer [Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Sony Corporation of America], you have a problem. Your company’s new video game system just isn’t that great."
Sony's PS3 is certainly a technological marvel, but it seems that in a desire to create a media center system, Sony forgot to pack as much fun into the box as users expected. And they know it.
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