Peter Dille calls DS for kids in Engadget interview

[wraggster]

Article from PSPFanboy

Dave Karraker isn't the only Sony executive to face the mic in the past day. Engadget, went face to face against Peter Dille, about PLAYSTATION 3 and PSP. Just like Karraker, Dille says that the PSP does not compete directly with the DS:

We're not focused on competing with the DS head to head against the consumer they're going after. If we were, you'd see a very different top-down strategy. You'd see a very different technology that would deliver to games geared towards kids. Which is for the most part what they're doing. And so when people talk about how we're doing vis-a-vis the Nintendo DS, again, it's not the whole story. We're selling a device to guys our age, who are using it to play games, to play movies, to access video on the net, music, etc. And it's a very different product than Nintendo DS... You can look at the software that they sell. All their licensed kid stuff. So, what we're doing with the PlayStation Portable is really establishing a new marketplace, and establishing, frankly, a new beachhead. And that takes time. Having said that, it's the fastest selling platform we've launched to date. We're up to 20 million units worldwide, and that's off to a great start. So, we just need to sort of set people's expectations based on what we're trying to do, not compete against a kid machine.

[Basil Zero]

thats what i've been saying all along, DS is for kids, and Sony's not targeting kids,

PSP is a "MULTIMEDIA" system/Portable, not a game system/portable like DS.

[the_eternal_dark]

Porn is for kids too, and how many people still watch it?

Any way, I think Sony is lying out their asses when they say they aren't trying to take Nintendo on in the handheld market. They are trying to make an excuse for the fact they had to cut their shipments quite a bit, and the losses they are having with the console as well as their terrible rep right now (lik-sang, controversial ads, plain stupidity).

Peter Dille (sounds like a pornstar name) must be under the old jedi mind trick or something. Or he just gets paid a lot to tell everyone what Sony wants them to hear. I'd say its both.

thats what i've been saying all along, DS is for kids, and Sony's not targeting kids,

PSP is a "MULTIMEDIA" system/Portable, not a game system/portable like DS.

So is the iPod Video, and I bet Sony says they aren't after that market either.

[gotmilk0112]

so.... Castlevainia is for kids? resident evil is for kids? death jr. is for kids?

stfu whoever said ds is for kids. ive seen adults with DS's. lots of them in new york. but i didnt see a single adult with a PSP in new york. >_>

Porn is for kids too, and how many people still watch it?

Any way, I think Sony is lying out their asses when they say they aren't trying to take Nintendo on in the handheld market. They are trying to make an excuse for the fact they had to cut their shipments quite a bit, and the losses they are having with the console as well as their terrible rep right now (lik-sang, controversial ads, plain stupidity).

Peter Dille (sounds like a pornstar name) must be under the old jedi mind trick or something. Or he just gets paid a lot to tell everyone what Sony wants them to hear. I'd say its both.




So is the iPod Video, and I bet Sony says they aren't after that market either.

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[g00gy]

ds is not for kids what about brain training the old mans game

also they have some good rpg's final fantasy 3, phoenix wright, sieken desnsetsu, castlevania.

tbh ds does have some kids games but it clearly looks like sony is making excuses. they are competing with the ds and they are fighting with all these cool capibilities the psp has and so far sadly it doesnt seem like they are winning.

[the_eternal_dark]

so.... Castlevainia is for kids? resident evil is for kids? death jr. is for kids?

stfu whoever said ds is for kids. ive seen adults with DS's. lots of them in new york. but i didnt see a single adult with a PSP in new york. >_>

I'd say Death Jr. is the closest of the 3 to being a kids game. Why hasn't sony gotten Capcom to make a Resident Evil for us (with multplayer infrastructure for up to 4 people to play)? Resident Evil: Deadly Silence is freaking awsome, 2 player support for killing dead guys in a RE1 remake!

Sony, get on the ball and get us some more games we want! Killzone, Medal of Honor, and Gun: Showdown are great, but come on... All that potential and not many "great" games. Nintendo got RE, where is ours?

[**1_Man_Matrix**]

DS is for kids. Resident Evil DS is like the only MA game. I own and am very proud of my DS Lite, but I know it's for kids. How could anyone deny it, when they look at the ratings on the games? Pfft.

[ICE]

if ds is for kids then why do i have one?

[NoQuarter]

Just cause a game is fun doesn't make it for kids,I'm an adult an I play DS every day.
What do you have to be shooting other humans in the head for it not to be " for kids" c'mon now that in itself is an adolescent statement.People my age grew up with the likes of mario and zelda.I love nintendo their products are just fun

[the_eternal_dark]

Just cause a game is fun doesn't make it for kids,I'm an adult an I play DS every day.
What do you have to be shooting other humans in the head for it not to be " for kids" c'mon now that in itself is an adolescent statement.People my age grew up with the likes of mario and zelda.I love nintendo their products are just fun

Exactly. I don't know why some PSP owners turn their noses up at the DS. Many of them have the Daedalus emulator and the GBC emu, wtf? Who can't get enough of the "kids games" like The New Super Mario Bros. or even Metroid Prime: Hunters (fun online gameplay btw)? I know I can't. Love the nostalgia of the DS. DS also has some pretty awsome homebrew too (like I said sometime before, Doom online!)