Sony: 'Wii is een impulsaankoop'

Steven (Steeven)
Om de zoveel tijd vinden vooral Microsoft en Sony het nodig om concurrenten af te zeiken in de media, dit keer is het Dave Karraker van SCEA die wat over Nintendo heeft te zeggen. Volgens hem is de Wii niet meer dan een impulsaankoop. Hij zegt ook dat consumenten die zich laten leiden door impulsaankopen lang niet zoveel games kopen voor de console als de echte gamers. Ben je al beledigd?

Overigens kan Sony beter oppassen met wat er gezegd wordt. Een tijdje geleden, toen de Nintendo DS bijna uit was of net in de schappen lag, zei Phil Harrison eens het volgende:

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The touch screen feature on Nintendo's DS is a 'gimmick', whilst the handheld is nothing more than 'an irrelevance' when it comes to predicting the success of the PSP. That's the view of Sony's VP of studios Phil Harrison, who made the remarks in an interview with trade magazine MCV.

'The idea of a handheld rivalry with Nintendo is an irrelevance,' claimed Harrison. 'Those formats don't appear in our planning. It's not a fair comparison; not fair on them, I should stress. That sounds arrogant, maybe, but it's the truth.'

From there, Harrison went on to target the touch screen feature of Nintendo's handheld, stating that, 'It's fair to say that Nintendo stepped out of the technical race and went for a feature differentiation with the touch screen. But I fear that it won't have a lasting impact beyond that of a gimmick - so the long-lasting appeal of the platform is at peril as a direct result of that.'

'Nintendo knows its target audience, because it has really narrowed that down,' continued Harrison. 'It's pretty much defined by a boy or girl's ability to admire Pokémon.
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