PlayStation Home is “2005 Tech”, as stated by Microsoft

Most of the people in the world know that we are in a recession. People are cutting back on their buying habits, and companies are making products cheaper and cutting prices. We’ve seen an example of this with the Xbox 360 price drops in the past year. The price drops have extensively increased sales, but I don’t think that we can see any more price drops in the near future.

Aaron Greenberg, a group product manager for Xbox 360 said, “We are fortunate to be able to lower our price on our products, offer a great value at a time when consumers are being much more picky. People are staying home more, people are making more family purchases than the past, devices that can deliver a variety of entertainment.

“I think that’s benefited us tremendously, the fact that the Arcade (Xbox 360) is even cheaper than the Wii has helped us. We will continue to take our great price and add more value to it.”

It seems like Greenberg isn’t a huge fan of the PlayStation Home service, because he says:

“What Home to me feels like is Second Life for hardcore gamers,” he said, “it doesn’t feel like it broadens the experience and invites people in. When they unveiled it, it seemed innovative. I think what’s happened is now here we are a couple of years later and we feel beyond that.

“It feels like 2005 tech in 2008. I’m not sure that’s what people want.”

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