Atari Founder Disses PS3
In a recent interview with Red Herring, Atari founder Nolan Bushnell dissed Sony and their PlayStation 3, claiming Sony “shot themselves in the foot”, and says that there’s a high probability of the console failing, with less than a million consoles sold by this time next year.
“The price point is probably unsustainable. For years and years Sony has been a very difficult company to deal with from a developer standpoint. They could get away with their arrogance and capriciousness because they had an installed base. They have also historically had horrible software tools. You compare that to the Xbox360 with really great authoring tools [and] additional revenue streams from Xbox live… a first party developer would be an idiot to develop for Sony first and not the 360. People don’t buy hardware, they buy software.
He went on to say that the success of the PlayStation and PlayStation 2 were both accidental, were Sony was in the right place at the right time. The PS3 has pretty much sold out on all pre-orders, and will probably be sold out for months to come. We’ll see how things go, and if Herring’s prophecies turn out to be true.
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