Ben-DutkaNormally, Sony keeps to themselves. After reading comments and press releases from Sony executives for almost four years, I rarely see them mention the competition.
But every once in a while, it's nice to buck the trend. SCEA Senior Vice President of Marketing Peter Dille took a subtle jab at Microsoft during an interview with The[A]ListDaily , and his comment is bound to incite some arguments. There's no denying that shooters are big and if one were to compare the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 lineup – especially concerning exclusives – one might conclude that Microsoft's library is…well, pretty heavily inundated with one particular genre. And recently, Microsoft UK boss Neil Thompson told CVG they want even more shooters . All of this may have prompted Dille's comment:
"We've never been reliant on one product genre like one of our competitors.
[Sony has] titles ranging from Killzone to EyePet. PlayStation is a very big tent and … it's helped us sell 377 million PlayStation hardware products and two billion software products in 15 years."
That first sentence right there is incendiary in nature, no doubt. But is it true? Well, it isn't difficult to compare the top titles lists for both consoles; we'll leave that to you. Sony continues to close on Microsoft in the worldwide sales tally, although new releases like Halo: Reach will temporarily prevent the gap from closing entirely. Then again, Reach is…well, what Dille said.