E3 '09: Microsoft Shane Kim's 100-Hand Bitch Slap
Kim socks it with price, Facebook, motion sensing
Shane Kim - he looks so pleasant here.
It wouldn't be E3 without a bit of down and dirty bitch-slapping between the platform holders. Shane Kim (corporate VP of strategy and business development at Microsoft’s game division) has well and truly stepped up, knocking about issues of price, motion-sensing peripherals and Facebook.
On price: speaking to VentureBeat's Dean Takahashi, Kim uttered, "We still have the lowest-price console. No one announced price cuts. That has benefited us greatly. We are the only console up 30 percent for the first four months of 2009. The economy is affecting the industry, but we are a pocket of success. Since we launched Netflix and the New Xbox Experience, we have been adding half a million new members a month for Xbox Live." Ouch!
On motion-sensing peripherals: "I don’t expect them or Sony to respond. It’s about a controller-free gaming experience. Nintendo went with the Wii MotionPlus to increase the fidelity of what they do. It’s not going to be easy to compete with Project Natal." Ooooo...
On Sony's motion controller): "But the spring of 2010 is very aggressive. Sony has made other promises before. We’ll see if this one comes true."
On Facebook: "(Sony) are limited to doing it on the PSP. No one is bringing social networking to life the way we are." That's gotta hur... Wait, hang on. Is there something stopping PS3 users just bringing up Facebook in the browser? Hasn't Facebook just been available on the PS3 like that for yonks now? (Find SPOnG on Facebook through whatever platform you like here, by the way).
Finally, on a less snarky note: "We firmly believe that the Xbox 360 has a life cycle through 2015 (10 years after the launch)."
SPOnG suggests that instead of using words as weapons, Microsoft's Aaron Greenberg, Sony's John Koller and Nintendo's Cammie Dunaway just have an annual E3 cage fight to work out some of the companies' latent aggression...
Source: VentureBeat
On price: speaking to VentureBeat's Dean Takahashi, Kim uttered, "We still have the lowest-price console. No one announced price cuts. That has benefited us greatly. We are the only console up 30 percent for the first four months of 2009. The economy is affecting the industry, but we are a pocket of success. Since we launched Netflix and the New Xbox Experience, we have been adding half a million new members a month for Xbox Live." Ouch!
On motion-sensing peripherals: "I don’t expect them or Sony to respond. It’s about a controller-free gaming experience. Nintendo went with the Wii MotionPlus to increase the fidelity of what they do. It’s not going to be easy to compete with Project Natal." Ooooo...
On Sony's motion controller): "But the spring of 2010 is very aggressive. Sony has made other promises before. We’ll see if this one comes true."
On Facebook: "(Sony) are limited to doing it on the PSP. No one is bringing social networking to life the way we are." That's gotta hur... Wait, hang on. Is there something stopping PS3 users just bringing up Facebook in the browser? Hasn't Facebook just been available on the PS3 like that for yonks now? (Find SPOnG on Facebook through whatever platform you like here, by the way).
Finally, on a less snarky note: "We firmly believe that the Xbox 360 has a life cycle through 2015 (10 years after the launch)."
SPOnG suggests that instead of using words as weapons, Microsoft's Aaron Greenberg, Sony's John Koller and Nintendo's Cammie Dunaway just have an annual E3 cage fight to work out some of the companies' latent aggression...
Source: VentureBeat
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Daz 4 Jun 2009 23:42
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hmm... you can indeed find facebook on the PS3's browser, but I don't use it so MS bringing it to 360 is just another useless feature to me just like the movie rentals