Maybe he could get a job with Comical Ali
Kutaragi steps aside for new Sony boss
A Sony statement explained, “Kutaragi will continue to oversee the entire SCE group as chief executive officer, and will fully exercise his power to reinforce and further accelerate the development of the PlayStation business.”
Why am I reminded of the part in ‘Rising Sun’, where Sean Connery refers to a guy as having been given a “window seat”…? A pity, after doing such a good job establishing PS1 and steering PS2 to sell over 100 million units, the guy has totally lost the plot.
Some of my favourite Kutaragi quotes:
“The PS3 is not a game machine.”
“PS3 is for consumers to think to themselves ‘I will work more hours to buy one’. We want people to feel that they want it, irrespective of anything else.”
So long Ken, thanks for all the piffle. By the way, you may want to exercise your power to sort out the PS3’s rough-as-a-bear’s-arse interface, pitiful online service and lack of anything worth playing.
There is no competion from Xbox 360 or Wii! We will crush them! There is no Halo 3 or Mario Galaxy!
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November 30th, 2006 at 2:53 pm
Oh that’s lovely.
‘our product is special, you should feel honoured and privilaged to have one’
Piss off Sony. You want me to work more hours so I can be bestowed with a PS3?
When did ‘having a spot of fun’ have to dominate your life and chain you to the cubicle. Doesn’t that defeat the whole POINT of a console?
See, Nintendo have it spot on, it is about fun and assuming the titles can be original and inventive enough to compete against Halo, GTA, etc, there’s no reason the Wii shouldn’t thrive (and hopefully) piss all over the other two.
November 30th, 2006 at 3:05 pm
Looks to me like PS3 will be Sony’s “difficult third album.” They’ve managed to go from being the cool upstart in town to the senile old fart of the market.
I’d love for the Wii to re-establish Nintendo as a brand to be reckoned with (outside of the handheld market). I’ve heard Wii referred to as ‘Nintendo’s iMac’ - which is true in every sense. Not only is it a cool, innovative (controversial) new product, but Nintendo are betting the farm on it.
If Sony and Microsoft were to seriously squish the Wii the way Gamecube was, I don’t think Nintendo will bother to make another TV console. Which would be a terrible shame, and doom us all to Gran Turismo HD, FIFA 2007 and FPS games.
Killzone 2, anyone? Didn’t think so.