GI: What do you think the competition is doing in your opinion?
Allard: I hope that Sonys nervous right now, honestly, because the launch lineup looks great. Theyve shown two really good movies and a picture of a console that doesnt have any ventilation holes in the cabinet. I mean, their list of claims vs. their list of proof, theres a big gap to close between now and spring 06. So if Im in Sonys shoes Im a little nervous now because our lineup looks great, our hardwares the same, we got a kick ass online service that just got better, our media support is really really good, and we got the industrial design right. If Im sitting in Mr. Kutaragis shoes Ive got a lot of work to do between now and spring.
And the worldwide launch thing is another thing Id be thinking about. Hopefully, thats all goodness. Hopefully, its spurring the Sony team into saying, Weve got to get more serious about online. No more rhetoric. Lets get serious about it. God bless em. If my GDC keynote contributed to Sony having better jewels on PlayStation so developers could focus more on games, god bless em. Thats a good thing. If theyre embarrassed by their controller design as a result of having played with our wireless gamepad and they make a better controller, god bless em. Its good for the industry.
I hope that its healthy competition and that they are a little nervous and that theyre looking at what we have done well and said, For the things that were not quite finished with were going to do them better. We aspire to do more as a result of Microsoft being in the market. Thats what I hope theyre doing. And I hope theyre not being complacent saying, Weve got a great brand. Weve got a great couple of franchises. Were unstoppable because weve had two rounds.
