Playstation 2 is outselling Xbox 360

SCEA’s Jack Tretton is VP of the PS3 launch talks about a hardware battle that isn’t getting much in the way of column inches – PS2 versus Xbox 360. "PlayStation 2 is outselling Xbox 360 for the year; we’re out-selling Xbox 360 month after month. The same machine that beat the Xbox in 2001 is beating the Xbox 360 in 2006. That’s amazing and that’s big news, but you don’t read a lot about that. I’ve been with this company twelve years and I don’t think it’s ever been better positioned."

For Tretton, what’s most relevant is Sony’s achievements in the past. "We launched the original PlayStation and we did 250,000 units and that led to upwards of a 100million worldwide. And then people said ‘are you aware that no company has ever led the industry two generations in a row?’ So we shipped 500,000 [PS2s] at launch and we’re now up to 41 million [in North America] and we’re 30 percent ahead of where we were on the original PlayStation."