Sony boss: '360 is simply not as powerful as PS3'

[falloutwarchief]

So the 360 is not as powerful as the PS3 and yet can deliver superior graphics, backward compatibility and online services... Yeah, ok. That's a fair statement.
I shouldn't really have debated it in the first place, we all know Kaz Hirai speaks nothing but the truth.

I saw a 1up video blog where they were using their debug machines to play backup discs. They showed the underside of the disc, where Resistence was burned onto like 1/8th of the BluRay.
Another out-and-out lie from Hirai (rhyming is fun). Resistence would easily fit on a DVD.

Also I think the "if we had simply done a mild upgrade to the PS2" line is an attempt to reiterate the recently fired/demoted (only good move by Sony in '06) Kutaragi's comments about "Xbox 1.5", which is a load of crap too.

So here we are with the first Sony PR of 2007, and their unbelieveably bad track record from last year looks set to continue...

Rrriiiiiiiiiiddddgggeeee Rrraaaaaacccceeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
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[RobW]

Seriously I am getting wound up by Sony's approach to their consumers. They talk SO much. All I want them to do is PROVE IT. Please Sony PROVE to me why I should spend however many hundreds more for your system compared to the 360 or wii? Prove to me with EXAMPLES.

The lack of proof really isnt helping them.

[steve_2003]

I'm sorry but I own a Xbox360 and love it, I have a growing number of friends who I play regularly with on Xbox Live & am really looking forward to all the must have titles heading for the 360 during 2007.
I also own a Nintendo Wii and am having great fun with it, it's a great party console and Zelda is fantastic.
I own a PS1 & PS2 but have no interest in the PS3 whatsover, the extremely limited exclusives & Sony's arrogance towards the consumer in the past year have made up my mind. No matter how powerful the console, without the games or customer care to warrant the PS3's price, it will always be just a brand name on a expensive box.
Get your act together for the PS4 and I may consider it, in the mean time I'm having a fantastic time with these two great consoles on my shelf.

[iainbyoung]

What has disk capacity got to do with the power of the machine?

[steven_h1]

"360 is simply not as powerful as PS32"

So where's the PS3 hardware scaler chip? When are you going to finish the PS3's software & when is the PS3 going to output 720p (which most of us with HDTV's have got) Blu ray movies? We've seen the games so far & there is nothing to suggest that the PS3 is vastly superior to the 360 and I bet Sony would die to have a decent online system like Xbox Live.

Things might not be going to plan for Sony:-

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070108-8574.html

[Niknak106]

"PS3: SIMPLY NOT AS AVAILABLE AS THE 360"

[lazarous]

Sony are desperately blind-siding their opposition because basically, they royally cocked up this launch BIG time!

My biggest problem with it is its probably gonna be getting on for autumn this year before your average joe can get their hands on one, by which time the console is already getting on for a year old. Do you think that'll be reflected in the price, chopping a year of the life cycle of a console in the territory where it's already most expensive???

Sorry Sony, you lot are 'effing rubbish, stop bagging your opposition simply because they did massively better than you, not perfect by any means, but MASSIVELY better.
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[hollywood111]

This reeks of desperation......

[Crow555]

So the 360 is not a powerful as the PS3?

Well at the moment, I can buy a 360 today if I wanted with a choice of over 160 games most of which have access to a proven online system.

Unless power means "Out tomorrow with all the trimmings", it means nothing to me.
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[nuggit3000]

correct me if I'm wrong but is this the same company who were saying 5 years ago that power isn't everything - when MS were bragging how powerful the Xbox was compared to the PS2

[MrPirtniw]

Honestly, what is this guy trying to prove? It's like a playground arguement over the size of someones family jewels.

The fact is, if you remember the old days of the Saturn and PS1, the Saturn was the technically superior console and Sega were a well established company. However the Saturn being so difficult to program totally alienated games companies and it's (then) over the top price tag put most people off. Can you see any similarities here?

Anyway, over in Japan, where Sony shifts the majority of its consoles, the PS3 is being thrashed by the Wii. And that's a far technically inferior console graphically. So the answer is... so what?

Ooh, while i'm here, the idea of a PS4 is looking unlikely (supposedly), and here's why... According to my sources (heh, listen to Mr Detective here), "the replacement of PS1 and PS2 creator Ken Kutaragi as top dog in the games division by the software-obsessed Kaz Harai led one suit to dismiss the chances of a fourth machine to pastel-hued laugh-riot the Financial Times. 'The appointment of Hirai could be the start of a shift from hardware to software', said Yuta Sakurai, an analyst at Nomura. 'I cannot now imagine a Playstation 4.' Aw, shame."

[Richyrich316]

Bottom Line Executives are full of SH!T

[herbalsummer]

There is a word for what the heads of both companys are doing,its called Propergander(if thats how you spell it),and was used by both allies and axis during the war,and the same b.s is happaning now with this so-called console"war",and i for one think its disgusting and is causing a lot of problems with the younger audiance.
"This is better"
"no this is better"
and so on and so-forth etc etc.

Why dont they both shut the f*%k up and join together with the mighty Nintendo and make one hell of a super console.
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[MrPirtniw]

lol proper gander...(wipes tear from eye)

As much as i respect Nintendo, they're not 'Grrraghh! enough for me... that's right. It is a word... Though that Zelda game keeps tempting me...

[ArchFlameTera]

[M00nblade]

[falloutwarchief]

[jaycee900]

[Swilkin]

[falloutwarchief]

[DAEDALUS79]

[MrPirtniw]

Generally, having to swap discs doesn't bother me in the slightest. Resident Evil, final fantasy. Jedi Knight and now Blue Dragon do it. They're all quality games! I don't mind occasionally getting up- im not fused to my sofa... though sometimes i wish i was... that'd be a good excuse to get out of work.

[Moby_696]