Microsoft Exec Greenberg Blasts PS3
- Scribbled on May 9th, 2008 by Jonah Falcon
- Filed in Industry News, Interviews, Sony PlayStation 3, WTF
Microsoft’s Aaron Greenberg blasted Sony for its lying about the PlayStation 3, hurling such salvos as:
Lying about PS3 Game Graphics
We have been fighting Sony’s promises from the day we entered the market. Three years ago at E3 they showed what PS3 games would supposedly look like with the Killzone 2 video, that we are now learning will ship four years later. That means that we will have shipped Gears of War and Gears of War 2 before they can even get Killzone out the door.
Lying about Home and PlayStation Network
Think back to GDC 2007 when Sony promised to leap ahead in online with the Sony Home unveil. Here we are two years later and multiple delays for a product that has appears to have little to no buzz. Where are the achievements? The friends list integration across all games? Where is the long-promised video store?
Lying about PlayStation 3 hardware
Where are all the other products using and networking with their Cell chip? How come Blu-ray did not result in better games? What happened with Sixaxis and rumble? Where is the complete 1080p game library we were promised? If Blu-ray, as they said, would be such a catalyst to PS3 console sales, then why have PS3 sales over the past couple months not seen any lift since the format victory?
It doesn’t help that Sony itself admitted failure, calling Home “too ambitious”.
(Thanks, Eurogamer.)
May 9th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
Seems like a reasonable blast at Sony to me.