He likened it to being ”exactly the same” with that they did, or tried to do with HD-DVD against Blu-ray. Move was a ‘knee-jerk’ reaction to Kinect tech.
”I’m convinced that Move for Sony is, what we call, fudding. Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt. They don’t give a sh*t about Move, but it takes the wind out of Kinects sails, or it could,” Microsoft’s Netherlands Xbox executive Paul Naber told Dutch site Bashers.
”Voila! Exactly the same as we did with HDDVD and Blu-Ray. When people are unsure of a new technology, they won’t get on board. And that doesn’t bother them as far as Move is concerned, because they don’t care about it anyway,” he continued.
”But if people get on board with Kinect and it’s a runaway success, then they’ll have Wii on one side, Kinect on the other and of course they will lose.”
“Simple, I mean, I still think their response, last year, was ‘Oh sh*t, Microsoft is onto something, we have to pull something out of the cupboard quickly, let’s get developers up there with even stranger lollipops!’”
”But if you look at how far along they are, what kind of support they have and things like that… They’re launching in September with how many titles? I think it’s too vague for words.” Move launches with 13 titles and will have 34 by early 2011 says Sony.
”Yes, I do worry about it because Sony is very — I’ve worked there for five years! I know what they do! Dropping the price even though there’s no stock, why? Because you know your competitor will stop selling. They are really good at that, at Fudding.”
“The future will tell if Sony is serious about Move or that they really use as FUD. To date, the retailers in NL enormously to talk about our strategic approach Kinect around and they’re, like, surprised at the complete lack of any story whatsoever from Sony about Move. They have a folder containing five titles and a release date and thats (sic) it.”
This was apparently said out of his personal conviction as a human being, not as the big Netherlands Xbox boss, reports PlayStation University. Do you feel Sony has rushed their motion platform in a bid to knock the wind out of Kinect?
