Peter Dille: Xbox 360 and HD-DVD Won’t Last
Speaking in an interview with Peter Dille, the new senior vice president of marketing for PlayStation, said that the Xbox 360 won’t be lasting through the ten year cycle that has been setup for the PS3. There are no surprises about what he’s saying, as he does work for Sony, but how he expressed his emotions was what was shocking.
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.’
What’s all this talk about tails? Dille also said that the HD-DVD will lose the next generation format wars to the Blu-Ray considerably.
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.
July 13th, 2007 at 11:19 am
Hmm… isnt it the job of the head marketer at Sony to BRING DOWN the 360??? Also, there’s not a snowball’s chance in hell that the PS3 is a ten year product. Nothing ever has been or is right now, a ten year product.
July 13th, 2007 at 11:46 am
well.. They have made a dime? wtf is wrong with u? Why are they being retards this gen? Tehy didnt do this last gen with the first xbox. How do u say they dont make a dime? They took most of ur EXE’s you freaking moron. Over 12 million own a 360 and only 2-3 million own yours.
You have better titles coming out for 360/PC than ur system. Wow u have killzone 2, even MGS will be going to the 360 and probably PC like the others did. You cant talk Sony, right now u should be trying to kiss ass to ur costumers or something for screwing them over.
Xbox 360 has : halo 3,halo wars,gears of war,gears of war 2, A special edition GTA4,FF13,Ut3(yeah u got it first),bioshock,assassin creed,project IM,call of duty 4,World in conflict,dead rising,better GRAW and GRAW 2,burnout series.. the dude the list keeps going.
Im ashamed to be one of the first costumers to make u well SONY PLAYstation. They need to focus on making games and showing ur costumers its good to own a ps3.
Sorry but this guy really pissed me off, I hate people that always judge shit when they have problems of their own. Like forcing gamers to buy blu ray, u dont new blu ray for gaming yet. How they will cut the 60 gb model out in 2 weeks, I swear MGS4 will come to the xbox 360 and PC over this.
July 13th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
Wicker man…
first, there’s 10 million X-Box 360 and almost 4 million PS3…. next, you don’t have MGS4 at all, assassin creed and GRAW will be on PS3 too (better GRAW???), FF13 is only PS3 and even if you have a special edition GTA4, because of the lack of space of your small space DVD, GTA4 will be reduced…. and we could name almost as much “good” exclusive for the PS3 and the X-Box 360…. before making that kind of comments, you should better inform yourself…
July 15th, 2007 at 11:57 pm
Nice guy, now i’m going to buy another 360 just to support Microsoft against those sick SONY pricks.