This is a great article about the backgrounds of the next-gen consoles, kinda long though.
The two shook hands, and Kutaragi invited Moore to the Sony (SNE) booth “to check out the PlayStation 3 videos.” Videos? Yes. The PlayStation 3 is not due out until April, and all Sony had to demo in Tokyo were noninteractive computer graphics. The Xbox 360, which launches in the United States on Nov. 22, did not have the same problem. “Thank you, Ken,” Moore said with a toothy grin. “But come by our booth if you want to play actual videogames.”
But Kutaragi had long seen Gates as the most lethal threat to his empire. Bernie Stolar, a former Sony executive, remembers Kutaragi asking him as early as 1994 where he thought the nascent PlayStation console’s main competition would come from. Nintendo, Stolar guessed. Maybe Intel. Kutaragi looked him squarely in the eyes. “No, Bernie, you are wrong,” he said. “It is Microsoft. And I will kill them.
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helped by games like Grand Theft Auto III -- which Microsoft had passed on publishing before its creators took it to Sony.
Wow, what idiot at Microsoft made that decision?
The two shook hands, and Kutaragi invited Moore to the Sony (SNE) booth “to check out the PlayStation 3 videos.” Videos? Yes. The PlayStation 3 is not due out until April, and all Sony had to demo in Tokyo were noninteractive computer graphics. The Xbox 360, which launches in the United States on Nov. 22, did not have the same problem. “Thank you, Ken,” Moore said with a toothy grin. “But come by our booth if you want to play actual videogames.”
But Kutaragi had long seen Gates as the most lethal threat to his empire. Bernie Stolar, a former Sony executive, remembers Kutaragi asking him as early as 1994 where he thought the nascent PlayStation console’s main competition would come from. Nintendo, Stolar guessed. Maybe Intel. Kutaragi looked him squarely in the eyes. “No, Bernie, you are wrong,” he said. “It is Microsoft. And I will kill them.
:y4:
helped by games like Grand Theft Auto III -- which Microsoft had passed on publishing before its creators took it to Sony.
Wow, what idiot at Microsoft made that decision?
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