Sony's Jack Tretton: Wii is a "lollipop", 360 an "unreliable cook"
GamePro's Vicious Sid recently sat down with Sony Computer
Entertainment's Jack Tretton at E3 to discuss the PSP, PS3, backward
compatibility ...and how he would describe each game console as a meal.
Insights galore!
GamePro: Before E3, there were all these rumors about the
redesigned PSP [featuring a flash drive] so I have to admit I was a
little let down when I heard it was only going to be thinner and
lighter. When I got my hands on one, though, I was impressed...though
it still seemed like an incremental improvement. Why not embed a flash
drive?
Jack Tretton: I think we're talking about a short
period of time here. Playstation Portable has only been out for a
couple of years, and I think it will continue to evolve over time. We
are absolutely thrilled with the PSP and we love it. We think it's
state-of-the-art technology and we think these improvements take that
technology and just give you an updated form factor. But clearly we
haven't abandoned the 25 million consumers that are fans of it.
I think one of the risks you run into when you get into [embedding
flash memory into a new PSP model] is, what happens to the people who
already bought it? And are you going to get the development community
to make UMD based games? We have to make sure that anything we do, as
far as the evolution of hardware, doesn't leave consumers behind. You
can talk about price all day long, but if you don't get the features
you need for the long term it's a bait and switch. The good news is you
get the price you want and the bad news is the technology has been
abandoned. I don't think we ever want to do that to consumers.
Thats just a taster of the full interview.
Check out the full text here....Vicious Sid
July 17, 2007
Source:
GamePro