Aaron Greenberg, group product manager for Xbox 360, strikes again by targeting the PS3 with some inflammatory comments. Just a few days ago, Greenberg in a podcast compared Blu-ray to UMD. He is at it again, this time attacking the PS3’s potential holiday sales.
According to Kotaku, Greenberg stated with confidence that the Xbox 360 will outsell the PS3 on a global scale this holiday. He said, “we feel confident that we’ll outsell the PS3 this holiday season in North America and in Europe. We’ll do it on a global scale.”
Greenberg also boasted that the Xbox 360 had a 42% increase in hardware sales month to month from August to September. He also, specifically points out that the PS3 had “flat sales” if you factor in the fact that September consists of five weeks compared to four weeks in August.
Basically, he is trying to indicate that the PS3 experienced no sales gain despite a sales increase of roughly 53k. From his cockiness, you can tell Greenberg is a classy guy. Jack Tretton, head of Sony America, should take some notes from him. Tretton didn’t even gloat or even mention the Xbox 360 when the PS3 sold 400k during June. This was about double what the Xbox 360 sold during that month.
It is pretty clear what stance each company likes to play. Sony takes a laid back nonchalant stance while Microsoft takes an aggressive almost mean spirited stance. Sony Worldwide Studios President Shuhei Yoshida said in an interview with GI.biz, that he likes to see the Xbox 360 succeed in Japan to support HD gaming.
Yoshida even complements the new Xbox 360 NXE and Avatars, stating that he prefers them over the Miis. It seems that Sony execs are completely on a different plane than Microsoft execs. I’m sure if Greenberg ever got in a fight with Tretton or Yoshida in a dark alley, Greenberg would win hands down.
Source : http://gamer.blorge.com/
