These aren't current, but it's still fun reading them.
Sony Europe CEO David Reeves on PS3
"The first five million are going to buy it...even if it didn't have games."
Ken Kutaragi on the PS3
"If you consider the PlayStation 3 a toy, then yes, it is an expensive toy. However, it is more than a toy. It is a PlayStation 3. And it is the only PlayStation 3. I hope that those who understand this will gladly purchase it."
Kaz Hirai on the "family"
"But my message is that once you become a family in the PlayStation family of products, you become a family member. We make sure that we take care of you."
Jack Tretton, On PS3s Being In Stock
"If you can find a PS3 anywhere in North America that's been on store shelves for more than five minutes, I'll give you 1,200 bucks for it." -- on PS3s sitting on store shelves mere months after launch.
Sony's Phil Harrison commenting on Microsoft's Xbox 360 dual SKU strategy.
"I think it just confuses the audience," says Harrison. "They don't know which one to buy, developers don't know which one to create for, and retailers don't know which one to stock. So I think we wouldn't take that strategy. We wouldn't create confusion."
Ken Kutaragi, on the PSP's Faulty Square Button
"I believe we made the most beautiful thing in the world. Nobody would criticize a renowned architect's blueprint that the position of a gate is wrong. It's the same as that." -- when asked about the faulty Square button on the PlayStation Portable.
Phil Harrison on Rumble
"Now, rumble I think was the last generation feature; it's not the next-generation feature. I think motion sensitivity is." - Comments made concerning the SIXAXIS' lack of rumble.
Sony's Chief Corporate Advisor Nobuyuki Idei, on Sony's Thoughts About Microsoft
"Microsoft does not concern us. Microsoft is not a technology company." -- when asked about Microsoft in a BBC interview
Do music executives count?
From Universal Music CEO Doug Morris: "If you had Coca-Cola coming through the faucet in your kitchen, how much would you be willing to pay for Coca-Cola? There you go. That's what happened to the record business." Hmm... and what is coming out of your faucet in your kitchen? That's right... water. And how much are people willing to pay for water? That's right, billions. In fact, it's a larger market than (oops) recorded music
Phil Harrison, on Sony's Perception of Nintendo's Target Audience
"Nintendo knows its target audience, because it has really narrowed that down; and it’s pretty much defined by a boy or girl’s ability to admire Pokemon."
Satoru Iwata, in May 2004
"Customers do not want online games."
Jack Tretton, On Back Compat
"I would like my car to fly and make me breakfast, but that's an unrealistic expectation." -- on PlayStation 3's backward compatibility issues
Phil Harrison on Consumers' Perception of Sony
"I don't think we're arrogant." -- says Phil Harrison when asked about Sony's public image
Kaz Hirai's comments on MS copying Sony
"Every time we go down a path, we look behind and they're right there - we just can't shake these guys. I wish that they would come up with some strategies of their own, but they seem to be going down the path of everything we do."
Peter Moore, On Red Rings Of Death
"You know, things break." -- on Microsoft's huge failure rates for the Xbox 360, prior to their billion-dollar repair program
Sony's Michael Ephraim on the price of the Wii
"For this Christmas I think the price for what it specifically does as a video games machine is a bit pricey..." --Michael Ephraim, Managing Director of Sony Computer Entertainment Australia commenting on the price of the Nintendo Wii
Phil Harrison on Backward Compatibility
"Backwards compatibility, as you know from PlayStation One and PlayStation 2, is a core value of what we believe we should offer. And access to the library of content people have created, bought for themselves, and accumulated over the years is necessary to create a format. PlayStation is a format meaning that it transcends many devices -- PSOne, PS2, and now PS3."
Ken Kutaragi, on PS3 on May 27th 2005 issue of Asahi Newspaper (Japan)
"It is like putting Ferrari engine on a BMW... (Compared to that) Nintendo is just a cute little family sedan." FYI BMW has won all 6 of the "Engine of the Year" awards at Engine Expo 2005.
Phil Harrison on the PS3's Technical Prowess
"The PlayStation 3 is a computer. We do not need the PC." -- says Phil Harrison in a Gamespot interview
Sony's Phil Harrison on the PS3's power
"Nobody will ever use 100% of PS3's capability"
Sony's Jack Tretton, on the DS vs PSP
"If you look at the adoption rate of the DS over the first 17 months, not only does it trail the PSP but it also trails their other platforms…" -- on the competition between the DS and the PSP
Phil Harrison talking about the PS3 controller
"We define the standard for the man-machine interface for playing games."
Perrin Kaplan, On Virtual Console
"But if your refrigerator's full, you've got to pull something out and put something else back in. I mean, really, are you using every single thing on there?" -- on Wii owners running out of memory space
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