Quote taken from interview with the Official Playstation Magazine UK, stolen from System Wars:
http://kotaku.com/5135145/sony-exec-says-xbox-360-lacks-longevity
http://ps3.qj.net/Sony-s-Kaz-Hirai-we-re-the-official-leader-Ninty-in-a-different-world-MS-lacks-longevity/pg/49/aid/128178
On Nintendo and Microsoft:
"It's difficult to talk about Nintendo because we don't look at their console as being competitors. They're a different world and we operate in our world — that's kind of the way I look at things...
And with the Xbox — again, I can't come up with one word to fit. You need a word that describes something that lacks longevity... Last time I checked, they've never had a console that's been on the market for more than four or five years and we've committed to a ten year life cycle, so you do the math...
And unless things go really bad, there's no way that at the end of a life cycle our competition is going to have a higher install base."--Hirai
On why PS3 is difficult to program on:
"We don't provide the 'easy to program for' console that they [developers] want, because 'easy to program for' means that anybody will be able to take advantage of pretty much what the hardware can do, so the question is what do you do for the rest of the nine and half years? It's a learning process" --Hirai
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Thoughts.
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