“3DS is een update van Nintendo DS”

Nu de 3DS op de markt is zal ook Sony binnenkort een nieuwe handheld uitbrengen: de NGP. Sony sprak over de NGP, de concurrentie en daarbij dus ook over de Nintendo 3DS. Volgens Sony is de 3DS eigenlijk niets meer dan een update van de oude Nintendo DS met 3D effect erbij. Shuhei Yoshida, president van Sony Computer Entertainment deed deze opvallende uitspraak en maakt hiermee absoluut geen vrienden met Nintendo. En dat terwijl het de beste man in het verleden nog zo leuk zou lijken om samen met Nintendo 3D te gaan promoten! Shuhei Yoshida over de 3DS:

“There’s no one clear competitor in terms of what NGP offers. NGP’s going to establish itself as the unique thing that people want to have. NGP cannot be placed against smartphones. You can’t make phone calls on it and it’s too big to fit into your pocket. Compared to 3DS, it was very interesting – when we were designing the NGP we had no idea what Nintendo was going to do. Aside from the 3D stereoscopic display, they seem to be keeping the same theme that they had with the DS – it feels like an update of the DS to me. Lots of choices we made were so different from their choices. It’s kind of hard to compare the two, aside from the fact that both of them are dedicated gaming platforms. We are dealing with the same issue that Nintendo is. It’s up to content publishers, including ourselves, to show people that this is worth £25 or £30 as opposed to 59p. You cannot release the same content that you put on the iPhone for a dollar on to NGP or some other consoles and expect people to pay 20 times that.”