PlayStation CEO Thinks Nintendo Makes "Babysitting Tools

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CNN Money recently sat down with Sony PlayStation CEO Jack Tretton to discuss the success of Sony's PlayStation 3, its struggles with pricing, and being in third place behind the Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii. It would seem the console wars are very much alive, not only with heated fanboy debates but with the guys at the very top of the organizations as Tretton talked some trash about his competitors' consoles.

"They're (Xbox 360 and Wii) starting to run out of steam now in terms of continuing to be relevant in 2011 and beyond," Tretton told CNN Money. "I mean, you've gotta be kidding me. Why would I buy a gaming system without a hard drive in it? How does this thing scale? Motion gaming is cute, but if I can only wave my arms six inches, how does this really feel like I'm doing true accurate motion gaming?"

This is an odd statement since Sony PlayStation launched their own motion gaming controls with the PlayStation Move last year. As far as technology, Tretton repeated his mantra that the PlayStation "just hitting its stride." Sony has, indeed, been closing the gap with Microsoft's Xbox 360, though it's still only sold less than half the number of Wiis Nintendo has moved.

Speaking of Nintendo, Tretton had some very choice words when speaking about the Nintendo DS, the portable console that has always dominated Sony's PSP.

"Our view of the 'Game Boy experience' is that it's a great babysitting tool, something young kids do on airplanes, but no self-respecting twenty-something is going to be sitting on an airplane with one of those," he says. "He's too old for that."

What do you think? Is Tretton stepping over the line or does he have the facts and the sales to back up his bold claims? Is there such a thing as too old to play the Nintendo DS?

Just lost all respect for him.

Wii and DS are more over-priced novelties than anything else. Just gained a ton of respect for him.

The only redeeming factor about the Wii for me is the games. There's just too much damn shovelware though.

Angelus the Revenant wrote:

Wii and DS are more over-priced novelties than anything else. Just gained a ton of respect for him.

So you respect a CEO of a multibillion company that acts like a little kid on youtube? He needs to stay profesional no matter how strong the compitition is.

Toxicmaniac wrote:

Angelus the Revenant wrote:

Wii and DS are more over-priced novelties than anything else. Just gained a ton of respect for him.

So you respect a CEO of a multibillion company that acts like a little kid on youtube? He needs to stay profesional no matter how strong the compitition is.

Honesty doesn't make one unprofessional.

His response is a double edged sword to me. Yes being honest is better than canned, generic responses, but it's no excuse for being a complete asshole. I want to applaud him but I also want to punch him in the face.

Still, I didn't expect any different. Sony's marketing has been pretty aggressive.

Well, if you consider the fact that the Wii is a shit console his words are pretty sound.

Jack Tretton speaks the truth.

I lost all respect for him.My "20-something" brother still plays and enjoys his DS so that means he has no respect for himself?Isnt that a bit uncalled for?

Its funny how he says "ps3 is just hitting its stride" when PS3 has been over 4 years into development.Thats kind of sad.

Not to mention Nintendo have been taking sony to school with their sales.

Hes got balls. i like balls.

(who names that reference gets a cookie)

I'm sure you like balls, Franko.

Zeratul wrote:

Not to mention Nintendo have been taking sony to school with their sales.

Sales are irrelevant. The only reason the wii has more sales is cause it's cheap, and parents think it'll make their kids do exercise.

P.S. Tell your brother he has bad taste in games for me, eh

Franko wrote:

Hes got balls. i like balls.

(who names that reference gets a cookie)

Team America.

Also Sony mad.

DS is boss.

I applaud Trentton. He's got balls.

Zeratul wrote:

Not to mention Nintendo have been taking sony to school with their sales.

Not to mention Sony has been practically wiping the floor with Nintendo in quality exclusives this generation.

yonny616 wrote:

Zeratul wrote:

Not to mention Nintendo have been taking sony to school with their sales.

Not to mention Sony has been practically wiping the floor with Nintendo in quality exclusives this generation.

As far as PS3 and Wii go, yes. But the PSP isn't anywhere near the DS when it comes to exclusives.

yonny616 wrote:

Zeratul wrote:

Not to mention Nintendo have been taking sony to school with their sales.

Not to mention Sony has been practically wiping the floor with Nintendo in quality exclusives this generation.

And yet the CEO's of nintendo are swiming in a pile of money getting blow jobs of sexxy asians while laughing at how sony get mad and butthurt because they didn't use motion controllers first.

Nintendo= :king:
Sony= :alone:

Toxicmaniac wrote:

yonny616 wrote:

Zeratul wrote:

Not to mention Nintendo have been taking sony to school with their sales.

Not to mention Sony has been practically wiping the floor with Nintendo in quality exclusives this generation.

And yet the CEO's of nintendo are swiming in a pile of money getting blow jobs of sexxy asians while laughing at how sony get mad and butthurt because they didn't use motion controllers first.

Nintendo= :king:
Sony= :alone:

Don't you mean "Ocean"?

DukemNukem43 wrote:

I applaud Trentton. He's got balls.

If it was a Microsoft PR I bet all the whos in whoville will be going boohoohoo.

ArcanaOfB3ast wrote:

Franko wrote:

Hes got balls. i like balls.

(who names that reference gets a cookie)

wrong




Pickles is right

I agree... No need for him to say it though. Could've possibly just said Nintendo is for a younger demographic is all...

They've always been that way though. No need to hate now that they're cleaning up instead of you. It was all good when the PS2 was king, right?

He is a genius IMO. This has received a lot of attention, and influences a lot of people. This is brilliant free advertising for Sony, and something for Nintendo users to be embarrassed about.

Toxicmaniac wrote:

yonny616 wrote:

Zeratul wrote:

Not to mention Nintendo have been taking sony to school with their sales.

Not to mention Sony has been practically wiping the floor with Nintendo in quality exclusives this generation.

And yet the CEO's of nintendo are swiming in a pile of money getting blow jobs of sexxy asians while laughing at how sony get mad and butthurt because they didn't use motion controllers first.

Nintendo= :king:
Sony= :alone:

Yes, asians are indeed hot.