[Nieuws] Geschreven door Theun op 2007-11-18 16:28:54

Sony India: "Laat Nintendo maar komen"

Een interessante uitspraak van Sony Computer Entertainment India. Één van de weinige landen die Nintendo nog niet heeft veroverd met haar systemen is India. De reden hiervoor is dat Nintendo de Wii en Nintendo DS daar nog helemaal niet heeft uitgebracht. De site GameGuru vroeg in een interview met Atindriya Bose, een van de belangrijkste mannen van Sony Computer Entertainment India, wat Sony ervan zou vinden als Nintendo zich ook met de markt in India zou gaan bemoeien. [QUOTE]GG: What if Nintendo decides to bring in the Wii and the DS in India? How will Sony counter that? AB: First thing from my side is that, we will not counter it. We will welcome Nintendo. We welcome any of the competition who want to move into the India market, because more the merrier, in terms of the publishing house, in terms of the consoles, more the merrier because the size of the pie is enormous, no point on fighting over the bean, we have been able to edge out in the Indian market. Similarly, when Xbox does marketing or when PlayStation does marketing. I am regularly in touch with the Microsoft people. We compete in our own way in the retail channel but we welcome each other's move, because the whole pie will get pushed up. The market is not in the stage of saturation that I will be afraid of the competition coming in. The other part of it is, you have heard of Wii because it is very active and actually play table tennis and you can actually play these games, if you have a Nintendo console, it sounds very attractive. We have a same genre of game that we will be rolling out, you have seen SingStar. You will very soon see a game which is of the genre of EyeToy. So, you can jump into that game, very fast and you stand in front of the TV, there are activities to do. You can do your fitness regime; you can actually play the games through your body actions. Everything that has perhaps come to you about Wii is there in EyeToy and incidentally EyeToy came in much before this part of the competition came in.[/QUOTE] Het komt er dus op neer dat hij het namens Sony alleen maar zou toejuichen, maar als we naar de rest van de wereld kijken is het nog maar de vraag of dat wel slim is. Bron: GameGuru