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Microsoft slams Wii by calling it a Child’s toy
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A top US Microsoft executive has dismissed Nintendo’s Wii console as a child’s toy. This follows an attack on the PlayStation 3 by a Microsoft UK executive earlier in the week.
John Rodman, group product manager for the Xbox platform and Xbox Live, told the New York Times that the Wii is essentially for children, while that Xbox 360 is for serious gamers.
“We don’t feel like the Wii customer and the Xbox customer are the same thing. We think that as soon as the Wii customer turns 14 they want something else,” said Rodman.
According to Rodman, six out of ten Xbox 360 owners use Xbox Live (Microsoft’s online service), which apparently indicates just how serious they are about their games.
This attack on the Wii follows a blistering attack on the PlayStation 3 earlier in the week by a Microsoft UK executive, Neil Thompson.
“In the technology and gaming there’s really little in the PS3 where I can say ‘gosh, I wish we had that’,” Thompson told the Times Online.
Thompson dismissed the PS3’s much hyped Blu-Ray drive as being “two to three years ahead of its time”, arguing that people don’t want to replace their DVD collections and that in any case the Xbox 360 is better for watching standard DVDs than the PS3.
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