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Microsoft on PS3 Home: "Sony will struggle"

September 20, 2007 in Other comments 11

After Sony recently announcing that their interactive online Home service will be delayed till Spring 2008, Pocket-Lint decided to talk with one Microsoft executive at the Xbox games preview event. The question was "whether Home would pose a competitive challenge, when it eventually does launch?"

The executive answered with that "I think that Sony will struggle." The Microsoft executive talks about how Xbox Live was able to achieve such a high audience and why the PSN won't.

John Rooke, Microsoft's UK marketing manager for second and third party Xbox 360 games, cut to the chase and said: "I think Sony will struggle".
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    Shadow of Death Sep 20, 07
    What do you expect though? You can't expect the guy to say "ZOMG! WHEN IT COMES OUT WE WILL BE AT THEIR MERCY!"

    When a business talks about their competition, it is usually a veiled (or transparent as glass) put-down usually...Even if they say something seemingly nice, they will likely have some message mixed in there, that basicaly says "We're better than them"...same is the case with all companies, at least, those that directly compete with one another...
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    DEZVOUS Sep 20, 07
    What exactly is it going to struggle to do? They're not trying to match XBL, they're bringing a different experience.

    Please, what struggling will be going on?
    • 0
      Final Blade Sep 21, 07
      Well not intentionally Maybe it could match or surpass XBL on its own, who knows. But i honestly doubt they will have much problems or struggles.
  • 0
    Subzer0* Sep 20, 07
    Wow. I didn't see that coming.
    • 0
      Riku31069 Sep 21, 07
      Ditto here. This surprised me.

      But I don't see any reason why Sony should struggle...unless they did it badly, of course.
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    Seeker X Sep 20, 07
    Well...with the new 3D community interface with multimedia features all over the place, including the Trophy room...and all of it for free...I don't see how much they'll be struggling on getting consumers...as long as they get it right; obviously.
  • 0
    Seproth Sep 20, 07
    It could be just hopeful thinking on Microsoft's part that Sony should fail. But maybe not and they would know how hard it is to implement such things.
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    Bale Fire Sep 20, 07
    quote
    What do you expect though? You can't expect the guy to say "ZOMG! WHEN IT COMES OUT WE WILL BE AT THEIR MERCY!"

    When a business talks about their competition, it is usually a veiled (or transparent as glass) put-down usually...Even if they say something seemingly nice, they will likely have some message mixed in there, that basicaly says "We're better than them"...same is the case with all companies, at least, those that directly compete with one another...
    I completely agree, what do people expect Microsoft to say?

    It's like asking President Bush about whether the terrorists will win
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      Shadow of Death Sep 21, 07
      Lol, great analogy

      Honestly, I don't pay much attention to what one company says about another one...I'm more concerned about the games, and people's opinions on the game (aside from the devs opinion of course, natural bias there)...Most of all...MY OPINION matters most, to me ^_~
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        Final Blade Sep 21, 07
        Nicely put, of course it would be nice if people wasn't biased towards games.
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    Storm Sep 24, 07
    Are they even going to let us beta-test Home? It is a risky thing, alright, but I have to say I'm quite interested in having my own personal space to setup in that app..

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