Sony: PS3 will "significantly outpace PS2"

Friday 4-Sep-2009 12:00 PM But Sony "wouldn't make direct comparisons" between consoles

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Sony believes that the PlayStation 3 will "significantly outpace" the PS2 in terms of lifecycle, SCE Europe boss Andrew House has said.

Speaking in an interview with our print cousins at Edge, House said that the extra functionality of its current-gen console would inevitably see it last longer in the shops.

"If you look at the PS2, still in some markets going very strong, especially in North America in its tenth year on the market, we still can't predict where that lifecycle will end," he told Edge.

"I have a theory that with successive generations, and with more value added and built into the console in terms of experience - and let's not forget that the PS2 really didn't offer a tremendously robust network experience - that what you effectively do is potentially lengthen that lifecycle more and more as you get to the next iteration.