Ya it's a little silly when they claim the Wii isn't competition. While I don't have any specific numbers to back this up, I highly suspect that a fairly large percentage of the mass market will only buy 1 console per gen, so dollars to the Wii are arguably dollars that the ps3 isn't making.

One thing I don't understand is why they keep boxing themselves into a corner. If they release a new console before the 10 years is up, they will never hear the end of it.

Unless they move the goalposts for the ten year plan.

      If they release Gears 3 on the current 360, they will have a much harder time selling the next xbox, and when your key game is headed towards your next console most other development starts to follow.

     Of course, if they choose to keep the 360 on the market much longer the PS3 will overtake it by the end of 2010 as Sony will have a massive quantity of exclusive games on the way from first and second parties, Hideo Kojima, Sega, and Square while other than Halo and Gears the 360 really doesn't have any strong games and Gears really saved it last holiday season.  Without Gears, the PS3 would have slaughtered the 360 during the holidays.

i give the man credit for staying positive, "in times of war, silence may be best"

Discounting both of your competitors in this way wouldn't even fool a five year old. Surely there's a better way to spin "we are really last but this is how i can get away with saying we are 1st."

To hear an executive say what certain bloggers have repeated for a long time is just priceless!

Seriously, did you guys expect Kaz to come out and say "I agree with all the game journalists, ps3 is doomed" or "ps3 is in last place and it's future looks bleak"? Is that what you would've said if you were in his shoes? I guess that's why he is CEO and chances are that you could never get to that kind of position.

@ pristine: A bit more realism to his words would be perfectly understandable. He can paint the portrait he wants, in order to make the PS3 look its best, but don't go reaching for things that aren't really reachable.

They could try to learn from Nintendo, and rather than making outrageous claims they could demonstrate how the PS3 is successful regardless of its performance in the console war ...