{"id":11241,"date":"2011-04-11T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"sony-slags-off-the-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/11241-sony-slags-off-the-competition","title":{"rendered":"Sony slags off the competition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sony’s US PlayStation boss Jack Tretton has called out rival products as technologically inferior and increasingly irrelevant in the current market, because their PR strategy has always prominently involved discrediting the competition.<\/p>\n

“If you’re really going to sustain technology for a decade, you have to be cutting edge when you launch a platform,” he told CNN<\/a> in a recent interview. “Here we are four years into the PlayStation 3, and it’s just hitting its stride.<\/p>\n

“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.<\/p>\n

“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?<\/p>\n

“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,” he added.<\/p>\n

He finished up with a sneering indictment of the DS – which he dubs the “Game Boy experience”, saying 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.”<\/p>\n

I think almost 150 million DS sales compared to just 67 million PSP sales might suggest otherwise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PlayStation boss says Xbox is \u201crunning out of steam\u201d, DS is a \u201cbabysitting tool\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}