Sony CEO is an Xbox 360 Fanboy?

Apparently, Sony CEO Sir Howard Stringer always has the Xbox 360 on his mind. While talking about the box office performance of Sony’s Da Vinci Code movie, Stringer said, “It also beat Xbox 3 in Europe in its second weekend.” You didn’know there was an “Xbox the Movie?”  There isn’t. He meant “X-Men 3.”

Stringer committed what is known as Freudian Slip, a slip of the tongue which supposedly reveals a person’s true feelings. In this case, we assume that during the interview Stringer was wishing he was home playing with his Xbox 360. Laughing at his own Freudian Slip, Stringer said, “There’s an obsession!

Stringer complimented Bill Gates for being “so brilliant at his detail that when he slips in the salesmanship, most of us think: oh my God, he must be right. … He talked on the one hand, and I loved it, he talked about Vista [being] delayed as if the delay was normal, and then he started mocking me for delaying PS3.”

On the issue of the PS3’s base model price tag, a whopping $600, Stringer defended his company’s console as being much more than a games machine. “… It’s got more bells and whistles than a 747. … That Cell processor is extraordinarily powerful and you have nine hours of high definition on the Blu-ray disks alone…The reason it’s expensive [is that] instead of concentrating on just the games player, which would have been done in the past, PlayStation 3 is designed to go somewhere else, where it’s the center of the living room.”

Question is will Bill Gates like the PS3 so much he, too, might make his own tell-tale slip of the tongue?

Via The Wall Street Journal

Apparently, Sony CEO Sir Howard Stringer always has the Xbox 360 on his mind. While talking about the box office performance of Sony’s Da Vinci Code movie, Stringer said, “It also beat Xbox 3 in Europe in its second weekend.” You didn’know there was an “Xbox the Movie?”  There isn’t. He meant “X-Men 3.”

Stringer committed what is known as Freudian Slip, a slip of the tongue which supposedly reveals a person’s true feelings. In this case, we assume that during the interview Stringer was wishing he was home playing with his Xbox 360. Laughing at his own Freudian Slip, Stringer said, “There’s an obsession!

Stringer complimented Bill Gates for being “so brilliant at his detail that when he slips in the salesmanship, most of us think: oh my God, he must be right. … He talked on the one hand, and I loved it, he talked about Vista [being] delayed as if the delay was normal, and then he started mocking me for delaying PS3.”

On the issue of the PS3’s base model price tag, a whopping $600, Stringer defended his company’s console as being much more than a games machine. “… It’s got more bells and whistles than a 747. … That Cell processor is extraordinarily powerful and you have nine hours of high definition on the Blu-ray disks alone…The reason it’s expensive [is that] instead of concentrating on just the games player, which would have been done in the past, PlayStation 3 is designed to go somewhere else, where it’s the center of the living room.”

Question is will Bill Gates like the PS3 so much he, too, might make his own tell-tale slip of the tongue?

Via The Wall Street Journal