infexxionPeter Moore Bashes Sony's Online Abilities
Microsoft may want to give its execs a clothing stipend, 'cause it seems like Peter Moore and Chris Satchell are getting a wee bit big for their britches. In an interview with GamesIndustry.biz, the duo thoroughly trashed Sony's online (dis)abilities, calling the PlayStation 3's online component a "disaster." But wait. It gets better.
Most of Moore's comments in the interview lean towards smugness, but are relatively objective as he voices his opinion of Sony's online track record to date. "It's going to take [Sony] a couple of years to get up to speed on this, and I'm not sure that they necessarily have the talent, or it's built into who they are as a company," he said.
Moore goes on to say that Xbox Live works as well as it does partly because Microsoft has had four years to work on it and partly because Microsoft is, at heart, a software company and "this is a software plane." Which, as Captain Subtext could tell you, is another way of saying "and Sony isn't."
Ramping up the cattiness, Moore also scoffed at Sony's prospects of improving on its online service, saying, "It is not in Sony's DNA to be able to get that up and running from zero." Me-ow.
Leaving no-one in the room at all confused as to Chez M's feelings on the matter, Satchell, general manager of Microsoft's game development group, added: "My honest opinion is that it's pretty much a disaster. They keep saying that they have a free service. Well, if they don't have anything, of course it's free. And you know what: what's free about $600?"
