ony Computer Entertainment Europe president David Reeves says releasing quality hardware is key to growing the games market.

"... Another thing we have committed to for supporting market growth is putting out quality hardware - you don't grow the market by putting out shoddy machines," he said. "So we try to make sure that PS3s have a failure rate of just two to three percent, which is very low by industry standards."

The Sony exec's comments come from an interview with MCV, in which he doesn't directly refer to Xbox 360's dreaded Red Ring of Death failure, although it's hard not to draw the link from what he says. Our Wii's still working anyway...

It's a fair thing for Reeves to point out too. Only yesterday we were talking about how reliable PS3 seems considering the fact that we've all experienced the RRoD with our 360s, some of us on four different consoles.

However, it wasn't all cheeky sniping, with Reeves actually going on to praise the other platform holders, showing a bit of Christmas spirit between the big guys.

"On the competition, I will say Nintendo have only done good things. They have expanded geographically and dramatically extended demographically. They have never been afraid to try new products, be that hardware, or software or peripherals.

"For Microsoft, again, I can understand that, again, they have put money into the market and have initiated growth. In some ways what they have done is brought forward consumers from next year into this year.

"By bringing the price down they are trying to establish themselves quickly, as they did with the first Xbox. But they have built online in a meaningful way and the competition they have brought to the market place is great."

http://www.computerandvideogames.com/article.php?id=204476

Sigh.


Oh, Sony. Your cheap shots are what keep our relationship spicy after all these years!

sony , stop talking about the other and look at yourself

For PR talk that was actually quite kind, he had lots nice to say about Nintendo and even some good things to say about MS. Much better than what's spraying out of MS PR reps mouths

I can agree with you, scottie. Sony tossed in a twist worty of M. Night Shabamallama near the end there.

History has shown that shoddy machines do, in fact, grow the market.

I think Sony has been much more humble for the past few months. I imagine things look grim from the inside with all the layoffs, so they aren't exactly in the mood for grand statements.

He always has; he's David Reeves.

can there not be a nice thing said? He's giving good comments, and yet everyones like OMG sony hate blah blah, he's such an ass knocking on the 360. He has given good comments to all systems and pointed out some cons.

360 - Great online however high failure rate
wii - brought lots of people in the market ( while im not sure the demographic is what i would like games to come from)

It's just that he's perpetually wrong. The PS1 and PS2 had tons of hardware trouble, but they definitely helped to expand the market. The PS3, while more reliable, seems to be massively overengineered, and such a machine has never expanded the market. This is just the latest example from the Great Gaffesby, because you can go through the archives and see the claims he's made about some sort of PS3 exclusive something or other for Mirror's Edge (turned out to be one time trial level, apparently), outselling Xbox 360 in Europe (perhaps a week later, we could see that they absolutely have not done so), and of course, that games don't matter since people will buy the Playstation because of its brand (lollerskates).

But, okay, he was rather charitable to the Wii. He should be, since Nintendo is kicking everyone's ASS.