MS director talks 360-exclusive GTA4 DLC; responds to Sony 2008 line-up |
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Aaron Greenberg, the director of product management for both the Xbox 360 and Xbox Live, recently gave out quite a number of details about how the upcoming 360-exclusive downloadable content for Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto IV (Xbox 360, PlayStation 3) will boost their sales as well as a few thoughts on their competition.Greenberg made an interesting point saying that the industry is seasonal and that 70 percent of console sales will be coming in the second half of the year, fueled by the new Xbox 360 owners. He noted that since they are the only ones to offer exclusive episodes, their second half of the year will be really strong.
He also spoke about the strong 2008 line-up of Sony saying that the company is only delivering what they promised to release last year. He pointed out that: "We have been fighting SonyÂ’s promises from the day we entered the market."
He further expounded on this point by asking about all the things that Sony promised to give consumers such as PlayStation Home and Killzone:
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.
Greenberg then proceeded to point out that the Xbox 360 has a lead of five million units over the PlayStation 3 and that he is confident that they will be increasing the lead further this year. Finally, he ended with some pretty strong words about Sony that pretty much summed up everything he had to say:
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.
Via Destructoid
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"We have been fighting Sony’s promises from the day we entered the market."
it goes back way further than that... "Emotion Engine" anyone?
URNOTe indeed, keep telling yourselves that...
Well be great if they do a few things.
- No more RROD, make it the GROD (jk about GROD)
- Windows Live Messenger
- Web browser (since ps3 and wii got their own)
- Blue Ray?
- Bigger Hard drive on Premium and let 20gig on arcade.
- Have the Arcade Game Disc box in Premium and Elites.
- Have halo3 box in Halo 3 360 Systems.
- Plug in Charger on Premium
but no its Micro$oft and they wanna be cheap on *****.
none of that tops both ps3 models coming with composite cables only...
Not including the HDMI cable isn't that bad. For my Elite to I had to pay about $420 some odd dollars, so you see, M$ is just rolling that into the price.
I just saying whats my thoughts to help boost their sales.
its like they r running for office rather than to talk about his company and plans he can only try to trash talk sony lol
it would work maybe if the deadbox wasnt a feeble system by comparison
ps3 is simply a better machine
he labels 2 games as being the downfall of sony cuz they arent out aka killzone and home.
and he rests all his hopes on a 3rd party game gta4?
well if thats all you got going for you i really hope it pans out but no offence gta4 will not make xbox the best system and if thats their hopes they r truely joking themselves