Aaron Greenberg lays the smack down on Year of the PS3

[pilonv1]

http://www.destructoid.com/exclusive-destructoid-interview-microsoft-s-aaron-greenberg-on-gta-iv-85192.phtml

Greenberg: I know a lot of folks enjoy watching the console wars and we would never underestimate our competition. But answer to your question specifically, didn’t Sony promise all of this last year including Home as well? We have been fighting Sony’s promises from the day we entered the market and if you remember at that time it was all about PS2 being an online cybercity with partner announcements from the likes of RealNetworks and AOL. Then three years ago at E3 they showed what PS3 games would supposedly look like with the Killzone 2 video, that we are now learning will ship four years later. That means that we will have shipped Gears of War and Gears of War 2 before they can even get Killzone out the door. Think back to GDC 2007 when Sony promised to leap ahead in online with the Sony Home unveil. Here we are two years later and multiple delays for a product that has appears to have little to no buzz. Where are the achievements? The friends list integration across all games? Where is the long-promised video store? Where are all the other products using and networking with their CELL chip? How come Blu-ray did not result in better games? What happened with Sixaxis and rumble? Where is the complete 1080p game library we were promised? If Blu-ray as they said would be such a catalyst to PS3 console sales, then why have PS3 sales over the past couple months not seen any lift since the format victory?

The reality is that Xbox 360 is leading this generation with a larger installed base, more than 2xs the games library, the most exclusives along with the leading online service and community. While we have not yet announced all of our plans for the full year, I am confident that we will extend our lead over the PS3 in 2008. Today Xbox 360 has a 5-million-unit console sales lead on a global basis based on most recently public reported data from both companies. This includes more than double the installed base in the US according to actual NPD sell-through and over a 1-million-unit lead across Europe also based on reported sell-through from Chart Track and GfK.

The days of Sony snowing the consumers and the press are over, I think the pressure is now really on them more than ever to deliver on all of these promises.

shots fired 

[MCD]

real talk, MS new PR guys need to shut up lol.

[FancyFeast]

Fucking awesome 

Sony's Steinberg fuck owned.


Two fat jews throw it down, place your bets.

[AdmiralViscen]

Ouch.

I'm glad I don't read GAF threads anymore.

[fistfulofmetal]

well only one console is going to have the Playstation Exclusive Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots released on their system, and which system is that? Oh right it's the Playstation 3 owned

[FancyFeast]

Ouch.

I'm glad I don't read GAF threads anymore.

The SDF is in full force.  No Xbot would dare post in there, that is ban material waiting to happen.

Bishop will probably come home after a night of cheating on his 2nd wife, and feel utter disgust for himself.  He will then ban 1 Xbot for every VD he has passed onto his new white honkey trophy bitch.

[FancyFeast]

well only one console is going to have the Playstation Exclusive Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots released on their system, and which system is that? Oh right it's the Playstation 3 owned

MGS4 or INDY4 = battle of the letdowns!

[pilonv1]

even if its a letdown mgs4 fans would never admit it

[FancyFeast]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=292798&page=2

meltdown in progress.  I wonder who that could be.   

[fistfulofmetal]

even if its a letdown mgs4 fans would never admit it

there's nothing to admit, since it's not possible.

[FancyFeast]

even if its a letdown mgs4 fans would never admit it

there's nothing to admit, since it's not possible.

Go watch that Adam Sessler clip lawl.

[Joe Molotov]

How do all the "LOL RROD!" people not getting banned? Oh wait, I think I know.

[AdmiralViscen]

We need to get more legitimate Sony fans here, this place is getting too grody.

[Phoenix Dark]

i've never seen so much ownage in two paragraphs

[duckman2000]

Aaron Greenberg is the worst sort of smarmy PR scum though. Acts like a rabid rat in a cage, every time.

[CHOW CHOW]

Those two paragraphs sum up the console wars perfectly (excluding the Wii, which isn't really a gaming machine).

[CHOW CHOW]

McDragon : http://i26.tinypic.com/35m1nuw.jpg

[MCD]

[duckman2000]

Can we please note that Microsoft has several games they haven't announced? So it isn't like they have nothing but Gears 2 and Fable 2(AKA STOP SAYING THATS ALL THEY HAVE YOU FUCKING SFAGS).

Who is making those games, though? MS doesn't have jack shit worth of internal studios, and its "partners" seem to be just as busy with multiplatform games these days. Microsoft is playing a short-term game as it is quite clearly after one thing only, and we can only hope they get there soon enough so that we can get our wonderful one HD console future, and not have to deal with any more suicidal hardware, distinguished mentally-challenged accessory schemes and overpriced, underperforming hardware.

Interesting change in tone between this and Reeves' commentary yesterday, by the way. Rat in a cage, typical Greenberg.

[The Fake Shemp]

There's so much stupidity in this topic that I'm locking it.  Primarily blame FancyFeast for his OA-style character assasination on a person that doesn't even post here.