Jack Tretton talks about the PS3 'disaster' (and Home beta)

there you go... all you kids that whine week after week about home can shut up at least for a few weeks. It's not coming soon and there is your proof!!!

Lolz, +1

This is a terrible interview. The questions just bash sony and state false fact without any source.
Tretton does a great job of holding up though, kudos.

That's Tretton's job for you. I thought I heard that name Dean T. somewhere before. Hrm.

Jack Tretton did a great job during this interview. The interviewers were clearly biased against the PS3, but he consistently and professionally revealed their Bullsh*t as just that. Some of their questions were good and tough, and so were his answers. But the interviewers also revealed how amateurish they are.

Professional journalists don't make up crap to "probe" an interview subject-- they present documented facts and ask for a reaction/response. Interviewers: 0, Jack:FTW

Very poor journalism. Acted clueless during the HD vs BR part of the interview, as if they could just make up things about HD's dominance and Jack would just go along with it. So poor they couldn't even ask a real question about it when repeatedly asked to do so....I mean...um...durrr...
Trenton came across as very calm and professional. All in all this is a nice example of why blogging journalism often gets viewed as being in professional. Like recieving questions from a high school newspaper reporter. All in all spouted off random & inacurate anti Sony news. Good job Jack, for being generous enough to sit for the length of the interview..

"there are also people out there now that are getting ready to call this battle between the HD-DVD and Blu-ray for HD-DVD. Is that beginning to look to you guys like a mistake that you went with Blu-ray instead of HD-DVD"

WHAT!?!?!? HD-DVD is getting its arse kicked all around the world. What is this guy on??

Must be a pretty dumb kid if he/she doesn't know that that PS3 is an accomplished games machine also.

@Bananaboat
Did you read the source interview? Very biased. I also own Wii and appreciate the the Xbox360 for what it is. Doesn't change the fact that the interviewers were ill informed (or lying) and amateurish.

Hey Alex, I don't know what commercials you're watching but the ones over here (Europe) all show game footage. The Ratchet & Clank and Uncharted ones spring to my mind immediately.

Anyone that claims that the PS3 is not a games console (as well as everything else) must seriously have their collective heads in the sand. As Tycho over at Penny Arcade said (about Burnout Paradise): "The 360 version quite simply doesn't have it in the performance department. It runs, and well, but once you've played it on the PS3 you start to notice performance dips and lost frames that used to just fade into the background. "

Sounds like the tables are turning as non-ported games for the PS3 are just as good (and in this case, better) than their Xbox360 counter-parts. I make this point to counter yours because: "Everyone knows the 360 is a games console". And oh my, a "Blu-Ray player" apparently (according to one of the most respected commentators in games media) has trumped the 360 (in this instance).

I have multiple consoles and I respect and acknowledge the virtures of all three of the "next" gen machines. Yes, I prefer the PS3 to the Wii or the 360 but I'm not an over zealous fruitcake that goes around making specious claims about the others.

It's the people that:

a) Go on to PS3 forums and cackle about "poor sales", "bad framerate for ported games", the shortcomings of a fledgling online service, state that it's "just a blu-ray player!" and bemock: "look how much you spent on your console!"
or
b) Go on to Wii forums and make derrogatory claims that their weapon of choice is "two GameCubes glued together" or "made for kids" or "just a fad and a gimmick that will be cast off as soon as people wake up and realise they want high-def graphics"
or
c) Go on to Xbox360 forums and snigger at the high failure rate of the hardware, how it's now peaked and will "soon be left behind by the PS3", how you have to pay for online services and how Halo 3 (which Edge magazine gave 10/10 I might add) is "boring" and "just another FPS for the 'PC-in-a-box'"
... that I can do without.

Gaming is about games. And if you classify yourself as a gamer it's unlikely you only game on one platform. I think rivalry is a good thing and debating the virtues of each platform is a healthy endeavour but I still can't understand the need for self-confessed gamers to slur other games machines. If you don't like the PS3 that's fine. People on a PS3 forum don't want to hear about it. Trust me, you're not going to change our minds and you only qualify in making yourself look immature and spiteful.

It's not a value if you're getting stuff you're never ever going to use in the console.

The interviewer is the same guy who at the announcement of the changes in BC for the Europe release said that the the European PS3 had no BC AT ALL. The guy's credibility is iffy at most. And his question's to Jack were loaded and on-sided. Despite all the REAL reporting about the HD DVD/Blu-Ray war he managed to probably pick the one instance of HD DDVD selling well to hit Jack with a question about HD DVD winning. I don't know why Jack gave this guy the time of day, when he was already reporting false information from the get-go at the Euro launch.

@Brodiesan

Whoa, got a lot off your chest, huh? BTW, I agree 100%.

Hmm makes you wonder. People criticsize the ps3 for being to expensive, sony lowers the price. People say no good games, sony pours exceptional games on us. We dont need blu-ray, blu-ray is leaving hd-dvd standing. This negative stigma surrounding the ps3 is unbelievable. People love to hate the ps3. Why? because sony dominated the console market for nearly a decade. Sony has consistently innovated and created high quality products. There is a reason I am a sony fan, sony listens! Every single complaint about the ps3 has been answered quickly by sony. We are only one year into the ps3 and sony has remedied every single fault of the system. How can you not be impressed by a company of this caliber? I could sit here and slam the 360 all day but I'm not going to add to the mud throwing competition that seems to be a product of this "console war" 07' was the 360's year, 08' will be ps3's year...