Reggie of Nintendo comments on 360

[makingmusic476]

Rath said:

makingmusic476 said:

Rath said:
I don't agree. As a commercial venture it has not been a huge success (though this generation has been far more successful than the last) however as a challenge to Sony - it has had far more luck and may well have more than payed for itself in that it is partially responsible for the comparative failure of the PS3.

But how does the comparitive failure of the ps3 help them? In the Xbox vs PlayStation war, yes it's a good thing, but the point was what good came of them entering the console wars at all? They've lost billions, and the ps3 going strong would not have hurt them in the slightest if they didn't have a console competing with it.

I mean, losing billions on a project to hurt a competitor that you never would've had had you not started the project is hardly the project paying for itself.

They were afraid of Sony gaining a presence in the living room that could eventually replace the PC, thus causing Windows to become obsolete and losing them their main source of income. They decided to head it off early by attacking that presence in the living room.

They don't seem to be as afraid of Nintendo (with things like Viva Pinata DS), probably because Nintendo seems less interested in making a media centre type thing and more interested in making a games console.

 

@RubangB. You mean all alone in his office. At his computer. With the door locked. No idea.

They decided to enter into the console business at the end of the ps1 days, and Sony didn't start with their media center approach until the PSX, which didn't launch until the very end of 2003, was extremely expensive, and was only sold in Japan.

I don't think anybody was worried about Sony replacing PCs in 1999 when MS first decided to make the Xbox.