Bill Gates On Sony And Social Gaming Options

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Bill Gates On Sony And Social Gaming Posted by XanTium | August 2 13:39 EST | News Category: Xbox360

From spong.com: [QUOTE] Speaking at a Microsoft investor chat Microsoft's Chairman and Chief Software Architect - William Gates - made sure to take a swipe at Sony, and totally ignore Nintendo. He also came some way towards indicating a new, more mobile and more social direction for Xbox Live. "So we've always wanted to be a company that got the benefit of the scale, going back to the beginning where we said, hey we're not a one-product company. Many of our competitors were one-product companies. Now they're not one-product companies, but Sony's just in video games, Nokia's largely just in mobile phones, IBM's largely in enterprise type software situations. And so is it a benefit to us that we work across these realms that we can expose you to the same user interface at home that you get at work? We think so. But there's a lot of execution behind taking that and getting the right things in the marketplace." [/QUOTE] Full Story: spong.com

[africamagical]

"Sony is just in video games"

?!?!


uhhh no

[jacksprat1990]

LOL To say hes rich, hes stupid aswell....

[stopit33]

lol who is this guy "Sony's just in video games" glad to see 360 is in safe hands

[incognegro]

lol who is this guy "Sony's just in video games" glad to see 360 is in safe hands

The 360 is not in his hands

would have been funnier if what u said was true...

[Aaries]

Ok, I'm glad the first 3 replies are exactly what I was going to say. That's just weird. How could he possibly say that?

[miggidy]

Speaking at a Microsoft investor chat Microsoft's Chairman and Chief Software Architect - William Gates - made sure to take a swipe at Sony, and totally ignore Nintendo.

Geesuz, you guys are the idiots here.
Gates was adding insult to injury on $ony's struggles of late.
If you guys didn't know, the Playstation brand is what's keeping them alive these days

I literately laughed outloud when I read his quote

[rooter75]

Umm Bill Gates stupid i'd think a little longer about making that comment... hehehe. Anyway I took it as a total blow off on his part in that the only place sony competes with microsoft is in the gaming divisions. It is like when a fighter is asked about his competition and they say "who is that" just to act like the competition is insignificant.

Edit: lol, you beat me to it miggidy

This post has been edited by rooter75: Aug 2 2007, 08:22 PM

[Chancer]

If you guys didn't know, the Playstation brand is what's keeping them alive these days

I assume that is a joke.

It amazes me how some of the worlds richest people can speak in lingo that means absolutely nothing and convince people that they are coming out with some intelligent meaningful statement

And so is it a benefit to us that we work across these realms that we can expose you to the same user interface at home that you get at work? We think so. But there's a lot of execution behind taking that and getting the right things in the marketplace."

This post has been edited by Chancer: Aug 2 2007, 08:34 PM

[deilzfcjk]

sony's game division isn't going that great. They recently axed a friend of mine from the California headquarters. He was there for 5-6 years doing customer service for playstations. I don't know how dead Sony's game division is because I see psp's as real gem in Sony's lineup. Doesn't cost as much to manufacture as ps3. I really think the psp is what's keeping them going. It's not problem prone as far as I can see. It's affordable and really cool. It has wifi....everyone I know that has it is happy with it. They can sell by volume. It didn't factor in as a console, but I still say it's in their same department. They must be making profit from that device.

[pingrr]

"Sony is just in video games"

?!?!
uhhh no

I agrea That has got to be one of the stupidest states I have herd recently. Anyone with half a brain knows that sony makes all kinds of products ranging from toasters to robots and everything in between. Sony even has thier own movie studio.

"Just video games" ha ha

This post has been edited by pingrr: Aug 2 2007, 09:23 PM

[nickman]

That was one stupid thing to say. And I see others agree

[warmaster_670]

wow, gates must be really retarded, sony does prolly, 10x as many things as microsoft does.


i guess i just halucinated watching spiderman a couple of weeks ago

[NineT9mustang]

Bill Gates is right, Sonys only in Video Games, except for

movies, Sony Pictures Entertainment
music, Sony BMG Music
cellphones, Sony Ericcson
electronic devices like Laptops, Camcorders, TV's, cameras
semiconductors, bluray, they own Columbia Records, RCA

I think if anything this was just a slap in the face to Bill because now everyone is defending Sony

[lando786]

Well B.G is living proof that you dont have to be smart to get money. This statement doesnt shock me at all. After all he said we didnt need broadband, HDMI and most recently that lame ass 10GHZ limit on cpus, so yea the guys not smart. But hes got enough money to make up for it i guess....