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Sony: Microsoft's downloadable content is stuck in the past

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Posted: Jul 24th 2007 by James O'Brien

Sony throwing punches... again.

Following Sony's press conference at the recent E3 Media & Business Summit, Gamasutra sat down with the firm's Peter Dille, senior vice president of marketing for PlayStation, for a chat on his specialist subject.

When questioned about the revised Sony PlayStation Portable, which is 33 percent lighter and 19 percent slimmer than the original, Dille noted the following:

"This new design addresses the load times to a certain degree. The internal memory has been improved, so the load times are improved." He added that the under-performing UMD format was down to miscommunication with Hollywood at the system's initial launch.

On the subject of the PS3, Dille was questioned as to how aggressively Sony is approaching the online gaming aspect, to which he said: "We're attacking online very, very aggressively." He also emphasised Sony's free online content in comparison to the Microsoft Xbox 360 and also offered another dig at the Japanese electronics giant's closest market rival:

"...whereas our competition takes a bunch of old content and catalogs content from previous generations and offers that in a download fashion, our development organization are making games specifically for PS3. When you download them, they're in 1080p, and they're showing off what's going on with Cell and the PlayStation 3 technology."

Oh, don’t you just love a bit of corporate handbag action?

15 Comments

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He is right, games like warhawk, socom, and GT separates it from the retro arcade games XBL offers.

Posted 499 days ago by dam6655

Has this loser even took a look at Xbox Live? Yes, there are a lot of retro stuff that the COMMUNITY REQUESTED! But there are ton of new IP's made specifically for the arcade and about 100x more than Sony has. Even the retro stuff has been remade in High Def with achievements, leaderboards, etc. If this guy is looking to fight with the likes of Xbox Live he is going to lose. Sony is not even close to being comparable.

Posted 499 days ago by Lame

It seems to me that he is more closely discribing the situation on the Nintendo Wii then the 360. The only downloadable offerings on Wii are old games while at the moment 360 still has the most original titles being offered for download of the three console makers.

Posted 499 days ago by Datoejama

I'm a proud PS3 owner, but Dille's comments are idiotic. If you want to talk "backwards, " look at PSN's Championship Sprint, Joust, and Rampart. I don't care if they are redubbed in 1080p, those games look like crap, play like crap, and are hardly worthy of slamming Nintendo and Microsoft. Super Stardust HD, GT, and Tekken DR are the only good games available, but even those are just exceptions, not the rule. Dille should keep his mouth shut before the PSN really shows like it's "aggressively improving."

Posted 499 days ago by Jack

I've never used 360's XBL, not the Wii's DLC service. All I know is that I'm very happy with PSN's offerings, and can't wait for more content to be released. Fl0w was very original. I'll always go back to that as my first PSN love. Everyday shooter will be my second wife, and warhawk my mistress.

Posted 499 days ago by ben

oops! I meant to say "nor the Wii's DLC serivce"

Posted 499 days ago by ben

Why is playstation always procaiming the role of the insecure, shallow punk?

Posted 499 days ago by yuifilifuu

how can you be insecure when you won the last generation by over a 100 million consoles?? you wanna see shallow punks, look at xbots far and wide. Never won a console war and they are already acting like they won this one.....lol turds

Posted 499 days ago by get of the nuts

I assume he means insecure, shallow punk in that it's what I'd expect from children (or politicians) - decrying the opposition rather than focussing on their own strengths.

Posted 499 days ago by Stuart

At my house, the 360 is used daily. The Wii is used monthly. The PS3 is used quarterly (it has cobwebs on it for hell's sake). We're always perusing XBL Marketplace, where PSN has very little that is interesting. Interacting with other users just doesn't seem to be as presentable on PSN either. XBL is just more efficient overall; there's no unnecessary fluff that slows you down. Currently, all I've got on the plate is looking forward to the Heavenly Sword demo. Since Final Fantasy XIII has been delayed, I see my PS3 as purchased way too soon resulting in little entertainment return.

Posted 499 days ago by SuicideNinja

Wait, does the PSN offer demos of every game on it? I have a PS3 and have not downloaded a single game for it yet have downloaded dozens on XBL. Why would I download flow? I can play that on my computer for free. Yes many games on the 360 you could find emulators for but, half the time that is illegal and the achievements make it more fun on the 360.

Posted 499 days ago by Benjamin09

This is funny because I just bought a PS3 yesterday and hooked it up last night expecting to be able to go in and start downloading all sorts of cool demos and movies. Besides Supoer Stardust HD and Gran Turismo I could fin absolutely nothing to get excited about. I also have an Xbox 360 and have purchased over 20 arcade titles and downloaded 50+ movies and TV episodes with more I still want to see (granted I need a bigger hard drive). Point is this guy has no freaking clue.

Posted 499 days ago by The Indignant

I really don't know what this guy is talking about I swear to you I have turned on my ps3 about 4 times total (when I first got it, when the motorstorm demo came out, when ninja gaiden demo came out, and to see what was on there for e3... the games are missing that thing. xbox360 has games i play just so I can be number one on the leaderboards and have more achievements than all my friends. it's like a disease I just can't stop and the demos are off the hook...games I would have never thought of buying like blue dragon and can you believe it shriek 3 are now on my tops list to get. I think with a price drop to the 249.00 price tag this generation will be over. already have three in my household my dad, cousin and mine

Posted 499 days ago by alleiarts

Lame your the loser considering PSN is way better than XBox Live the whole crappy community is just 2D PSN home is 3D home beats live hardcore!.

Posted 499 days ago by no duh

XBox Live=XBoring Live.

Posted 499 days ago by no duh

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