Ahh, industry figures taking jabs at rival companies’ products like basement-dwelling fanboys never gets old, no matter which side it’s coming from. This time around, Aaron Greenberg, Microsoft director of product management for Xbox 360 and Xbox Live, has some unflattering words for Nintendo’s little white box, the Wii.
In an interview with Gamasutra, he claims that it is little more than a starter console and novelty for non-gamers, and that Wii owners "are eventually going to want to graduate to an Xbox 360 experience." Greenberg says:
"Everyone says that eventually the novelty will wear off, right? I think that a lot of the people that are buying that console today are not people that have generally bought consoles in the past, right?
You see they’re not buying games on it, right? They’re buying it, it’s like something they break out when people come over, and it’s maybe a fun thing, but it’s almost like the same people that buy a karaoke machine, you know? They’re not really buying it for games, they’re just buying it as a novelty."
I can’t say that I agree or disagree with him 100 percent, but I will say that the man has perfectly described at least one sector of Wii gamers — just not all of them.
[via Gamasutra]
