Peter Dille, Sony's senior vice president of marketing for PlayStation, is angry. No, actually, he's furious. So much so he's about ready to punch on. And Microsoft, boy, are you gonna get it:

I don't want to be argumentative, but I take issue with Microsoft either having a long tail, or being profitable, because they've never done either. They've never made a dime in this business, number one, and number two, they've never had a tail. They've never been successful enough to have a tail! So the notion of a back half of the curve doesn't exist for them. They stopped the Xbox and I kind of feel for the guy that bought an Xbox the month before they said 'we're out of business, we're moving on.'

Them is most certainly fightin' words. But wait. He ain't done.

With the Xbox 360 you've got an inconsistent design, some have a hard drive, some don't, and none of them have Blu-Ray, and the HD-DVD will be out of business in a matter of months. Is this a 10 year product? And by the way, it doesn't even work. Do they want to be selling it for 10 years and refurbishing them all for 10 more years? I don't think that's a 10 year product. You could disagree with me, or they could disagree with me, but I'd put that up against the PS3 any day.

I'm pretty sure that's about the point the handlers burst into the room and hit him with the tranquilizer darts. Little drastic, yeah, but it had to be done. Any more hulking out and he wouldn't have just been a danger to Microsoft, he'd have been a danger to himself, and his loved ones.

Sony's Dille: Xbox 360 Not Sustainable, HD-DVD Dead Within Months [Gamasutra]

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