E3: Sony’s Peter Dille talks about the Xbox 360

Gamasutra recently sat down with Peter Dille, Sony‘s senior vice president of marketing for PlayStation, during E3. Although Gamasutra hasn’t released the whole interview yet, they have released a rather interesting comment by Dille on the PS3’s edge over the Xbox 360.

Dille’s take on the Xbox 360 is that, unlike the PS3, it doesn’t have a 10 year life cycle. Xbox 360 owners don’t have a guarantee that games will still be released for their consoles within the next decade.

He cites the original Xbox for his argument: “They stopped the Xbox and I kind of feel for the guy that bought an Xbox the month before they said ‘we’re out of business, we’re moving on.'” The PS3 however, will still be releasing marketable games even on its later years.

Dille admits that he gets a little emotional over the subject, stating his views rather strongly about the Xbox:

With the Xbox 360 you’ve got an inconsistent design, some have a hard drive, some don’t, and none of them have Blu-Ray, and the HD-DVD will be out of business in a matter of months. Is this a 10 year product? And by the way, it doesn’t even work. Do they want to be selling it for 10 years and refurbishing them all for 10 more years? I don’t think that’s a 10 year product. You could disagree with me, or they could disagree with me, but I’d put that up against the PS3 any day.

His views on the HD-DVD dying may be held off though, as HD-DVD players are rising against the Blu-Ray in Europe. Blu-Ray discs are still outselling HD-DVDs though. The next few months may still see a huge shift in trends though, and the responses in E3 will dictate a lot of those shifts.

Gamasutra recently sat down with Peter Dille, Sony‘s senior vice president of marketing for PlayStation, during E3. Although Gamasutra hasn’t released the whole interview yet, they have released a rather interesting comment by Dille on the PS3’s edge over the Xbox 360.

Dille’s take on the Xbox 360 is that, unlike the PS3, it doesn’t have a 10 year life cycle. Xbox 360 owners don’t have a guarantee that games will still be released for their consoles within the next decade.

He cites the original Xbox for his argument: “They stopped the Xbox and I kind of feel for the guy that bought an Xbox the month before they said ‘we’re out of business, we’re moving on.'” The PS3 however, will still be releasing marketable games even on its later years.

Dille admits that he gets a little emotional over the subject, stating his views rather strongly about the Xbox:

With the Xbox 360 you’ve got an inconsistent design, some have a hard drive, some don’t, and none of them have Blu-Ray, and the HD-DVD will be out of business in a matter of months. Is this a 10 year product? And by the way, it doesn’t even work. Do they want to be selling it for 10 years and refurbishing them all for 10 more years? I don’t think that’s a 10 year product. You could disagree with me, or they could disagree with me, but I’d put that up against the PS3 any day.

His views on the HD-DVD dying may be held off though, as HD-DVD players are rising against the Blu-Ray in Europe. Blu-Ray discs are still outselling HD-DVDs though. The next few months may still see a huge shift in trends though, and the responses in E3 will dictate a lot of those shifts.