Kutaragi Thumbs Nose At Other Consoles

Ken Kutaragi thinks very highly of the PS3. So much so, that he is once again badmouthing his competitors in the press. From the article: "This time, Microsoft has stated clearly that it is going after PlayStation. However, they're going not after the PlayStation 3, but the PlayStation 2. They were looking at 2, and that's why [Xbox 360] became like that". And by "that", he probably means crappy. I'm just guessing.

Comments

my reaction:

[LewieP]

"sure ken, whatever"

(preorders revolution)

Re:my reaction:

[ZephyrXero]

Yes, but can the Revolution and Xbox360 cook my burgers to perfection like the PS3?

Math

[cheaphomemadeacid]

From the article: "We're not sure we completely understand what he's on about, in all honesty, but it's clear that the emphasis is on calculators." No?! Really, they use math in computer games?! WOW this must be the REAL thing! What a revolution this will be!

So Microsoft...

[Anonymous Coward]

"However, they're going not after the PlayStation 3, but the PlayStation 2. They were looking at 2..."

...has invented the flux capacitor, which they will be installing on all Xbox 360 units? When you turn them on, they tear a hole in the space-time continuum, hurtling backwards in time to the year 2000 on the exact date and time you purchased a PS2. You immediately take back the PS2 because you now have the superior console. So, not only will Microsoft dominate the gaming market, they actually already did, five years ago. Amazing. If that's the plan though, why I am writing this article about it?

"I hate temporal mechanics." -- Miles O'Brien, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

I Love This Man

[Babbster]

Ken Kutaragi is a friggin' genius. I don't know if all his smack talk will have any positive effect on PS3 sales or negative effect on Xbox 360 sales, but he is just entertaining as hell. He's a lot more fun than J. Allard who too often seems intent on making the Xbox (and now the 360) look like it was designed for the entertainment of rock stars, actors and professional sports players. Allard bores me to tears.

Ken comes off as a guy who cares about winning and is ready to say anything to help make that happen. What's not to like about that? Speaking for myself, an American, I think winning is more fun than just about anything not required for continuation of the human race.

I'm an Xbox fan. I have all three consoles, but I feed more games to my Xbox than the other two consoles combined. I like the games that come out, I like the graphics and I like (love) the sounds (I bought my first DVD player way back when to get Dolby Digital; letterboxed movies were a secondary consideration). I went so far as to wait for its Xbox release before playing the latest GTA game - I've had to fight off some withdrawal-type symptoms, but I made it.

All the above being true, I want to hear MORE Xbox 360 slams from Mr. Kutaragi. He makes me smile...and not in an ironic, "oh look at the silly monkey" way. No, he entertains me the same way one of the aforementioned Xbox-playing sports stars does when he goes crazy and guarantees a win or puts down an opposing team. It's just plain fun.

Even his incoherent ramblings about the PS3 and Cell are a blast. I mean, come on: "However, if you look closely, the difference between things that are being calculated and things that are simply being changed and moved is clear." I, for one, will be less than a foot from my TV screen when I eventually hook up a PS3 just to see the amazing differences between motion capture and the magical Cell real-time calculations. I LOVE IT!

Ken, you're out of your mind and I can't get enough. Go, man, go!

PS- I get similar tingles when one of the Nintendo nuts goes on and on about their magical gameplay. You know, because giving Mario a water cannon revolutionized (apologies) gaming. :)

Re:I Love This Man

[PaSTE]

PS- I get similar tingles when one of the Nintendo nuts goes on and on about their magical gameplay. You know, because giving Mario a water cannon revolutionized (apologies) gaming. :)

I can't wait to see what will happen to these kinds of posts in 30 years, when game console designers end up using every word in the English language, so everything becomes a pun.

"I really liked (sorry) the Nintento XZ3000 and their ombudsman (not a plug for Microsoft) because (no pun intended) they tend (no, I don't work for Sony) to focus (apologies to Apple) on developing the software (again, not a M€ plug) and not (Phantom rulez!) overhyping (no, not the 2021 Sega attempt to re-enter the market) the hardware (TM Sears)."

Re:This guy is just asking for it....

[dootbran]

Yeah, when all those celebrities were sitting down playing Perfect Dark, that was totally prerendered! Hell that Xbox that they were showing everyone was prerendered. They called ILM in to work some star wars magic and stick it in there.

Xbox 360 aiming for playstation 2

[Chris_Jefferson]

I'd be curious to know how the xbox 360 could be aiming for the ps2 when the xbox was suprior in terms of performance and graphics (thats not a stab at sony. The xbox came out quite a lot later. It would be suprising if it wasn't)

But of course remember, the playstation 3 will have REALISTIC EMOTIONS! using it's emotion engine and be able to RENDER TOY STORY IN REAL TIME! and be a SUPER COMPUTER!

Wait.. that was the PS2 wasn't it?

Re:Xbox 360 aiming for playstation 2

[Anonymous Coward]

Ha ha really funny. PS2 couldn't have emotional engine because Saddam Hussein would have used it to launch nukes to US at Christmas Eve. Now that he is gone, Sony has no reason to hold back on anything. Although i am a bit worried about what Osama bin Laden might do with the amazing power of a PS3 cluster.

Re:Xbox 360 aiming for playstation 2

[rAiNsT0rm]

I think the coolest thing Sony could do is to actually have Toy Story run in real time on a PS3... I thought for sure it would happen at E3. That would have been the single best E3 moment in history.

Similarly, albeit a bit more devastating, they could have used a PS3 to guide a missile right into Iraq live on a huge screen.

Re:New Marketing

[reidbold]

I'm probably going to buy a Revolution too.

Re:Sony's Reaction

[bigman2003]

'guns blazing?'

This is Nintendo...

More like: 'With a giant bag of fairy dust to sprinkle on all the good boys and girls in rainbow land.'