Sqrl said:
HappySqurriel said:
Viper1 said:
Stringer is the only one that holds his tongue. But the great thing about Stringer is he fully acknowledges the other consoles and even considers them valuable competition.
The other big Sony execs (and the whole PR team for that matter) spew the worst lines I've ever heard in the industry.
MS execs, notably Peter Moore back when he was with MS, made a few digs here and there.
I've rarely ever heard brash comments from Nintendo and it was mostly Yamauchi back in the ego days. |
As a general rule, Nintendo is far too classy to spend their time bashing the other console manufacturers ... Miyamoto even said he bought his son a PS2 (although he also said his work at Nintendo kept him too busy to play many games on it himself). Typically, Nintendo will respond to leading questions about the console wars with an answer along the lines of "We believe that they have created a quality product but do not believe that it is the correct direction for Nintendo" ... Some of Nintendo's executives will boast when given the opportunity though; Reggie Fils Aime (or Reggie Boy-Love in English) is such an executive and at GDC this year: "Kick his ass and take his name! ” someone shouted. “Who?” answered Reggie. “Phil Harrison, front row!” Sure enough, there was Phil Harrison, seated dead center, front row. With a grin and a chuckle, Reggie replies, “Some would say we’ve already done that.”
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Definitely some arrogance there, no doubt about it. But the two major differences are that it was said in jest and there is nothing factually wrong about it...there are some people who would say that. I would actually love to see some similarly outlandish Nintendo exec quotes. I have a feeling they are thinking some pretty outlandish things but I think Nintendo does a very good job of making sure their people keep there lips in check. Makes for far less entertainment for us though... |
Personally, I would say that this comment in particular was on the border between being confident and cocky ... Being that it was more of a playful comment and that what he said was factually correct I would say it was probably on the confident side of the line.
Most of the outlandish quotes that Nintendo ever made were through their former CEO Hiroshi Yamauchi durring the mid to late 90's ... The one difference between him and many of Sony's current executives is that he made a similar number of arrogant comments through out his multi-decade career as the Sony executives have made in the past year.
