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crissindahouse on 28 August 2013
eFKac said:
Pretty good interview. And finally asking direct questions about MS and direct responses. Usually it's PR talk like: "Your (unnamed) competition is doing blablabla" and the answer is: "Oh we're not focusing on our competition, we want to give our customers the best option, blablabla."

what i wonder is why all these "journalists" always ask sony about microsoft and microsoft about sony. seriously, why do they always have to talk about their competition?

do newspapers always ask mercedes about the new bmw? no, they don't, they ask them about their product and not about the product of the competition. and that is a much bigger industry.



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ethomaz on 28 August 2013

Long interview... I can't read right now



Somini on 28 August 2013
ethomaz said:
Long interview... I can't read right now


Lazy bum haha. It's actually a good interview. I'm not that good at summerizing, maybe someone else in here can do this more easily for you :)



theprof00 on 28 August 2013

"But while Ryan had every reason to be upbeat since e3 the last two months have seen MS grab every headline."

I guess the same would go for Lady Gaga and Miley Cyrus.



eFKac on 28 August 2013
crissindahouse said:
eFKac said:
Pretty good interview. And finally asking direct questions about MS and direct responses. Usually it's PR talk like: "Your (unnamed) competition is doing blablabla" and the answer is: "Oh we're not focusing on our competition, we want to give our customers the best option, blablabla."

what i wonder is why all these "journalists" always ask sony about microsoft and microsoft about sony. seriously, why do they always have to talk about their competition?

do newspapers always ask mercedes about the new bmw? no, they don't, they ask them about their product and not about the product of the competition. and that is a much bigger industry.


Maybe exactly because of your second paragraph reasoning. We have an Oligopoly of only 3 manufacturers in the gaming industry, with well MS and Sony more directly competing, so when you have only two products to compare in the industry such questions seem natural.



So it is happening...PS4 preorder.

Greatness Awaits!

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theprof00 on 28 August 2013
Nsanity said:
Sony must have forgotten about Casino Royale: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/casino-royale-blu-ray-for-ps3-early-adopters

Or maybe he remembers too well? I guess you could then agree that it doesn't bode well for the release.



crissindahouse on 28 August 2013
eFKac said:
crissindahouse said:
eFKac said:
Pretty good interview. And finally asking direct questions about MS and direct responses. Usually it's PR talk like: "Your (unnamed) competition is doing blablabla" and the answer is: "Oh we're not focusing on our competition, we want to give our customers the best option, blablabla."

what i wonder is why all these "journalists" always ask sony about microsoft and microsoft about sony. seriously, why do they always have to talk about their competition?

do newspapers always ask mercedes about the new bmw? no, they don't, they ask them about their product and not about the product of the competition. and that is a much bigger industry.


Maybe exactly because of your second paragraph reasoning. We have an Oligopoly of only 3 manufacturers in the gaming industry, with well MS and Sony more directly competing, so when you have only two products to compare in the industry such questions seem natural.

there are plenty of car manufacturers but the real competition for a mercedes s-class comes only from bmw, audi and maybe lexus. at least here in europe.

and if there is an interview about this s-class, journalists don't ask in every second question what's going on with an audi a8 even when all those magazines do nothing else as comparing those car models with each other in every single issue...