Console Wars Quotes

My family went Intellivision instead of Atari. I would go over to my friends' houses to play their Ataris and was so jealous of that. I don't remember them ever being jealous that I had the Intellivision.

I kind of get a next-gen game machine, but competing for the home entertainment business? We'll see how that goes.

In the time period before Wii was called Wii and we still referred to it as Revolution, no one thought it was going to succeed.

The transition from the original Xbox to the Wii wasn't a big deal for my team. The business hadn't changed fundamentally.

I grew up with video games. My generation kind of grew up with the Nintendo and the Sega Genesis. Then, I had a Dreamcast and, finally, the PlayStation. So yeah, I've always been a big gamer.

When I was growing up, I was an '80s baby, so I remember the Sega Genesis and the first Nintendo. I grew up in a time when we first started playing video games on a computer screen. Now there are headsets and your body's the controller.

I've got the Xbox 360, a Wii, and a PlayStation 3. I got everything you could think of.

If the first entrant always wins the market, the Dreamcast must have won the race against the PS2, for example. There are many precedents like that in the past. The first to market is not necessarily the winner in the race.

The 1980s was a time of the great recession of interactive entertainment. When Atari fell in 1982, until Nintendo launched its console, video games were an outcast for five years.

I skipped N64, but I got it later when I was older. I got Game Cube first, then N64 after that actually.

Here's a hypothesis I seriously believe: If there hadn't been a 'Pokemon' game, maybe the market for handheld game devices would have gone extinct.

I'm the only one who was predicting the Nintendo Wii would beat Sony's PlayStation 3.

What we did ten years ago with the Playstation was a phenomenal success story for the company. That product had a ten year life cycle, which has never been done in this industry.

The Wii had sold a hundred million units globally; the Wii U did not have that same level of success.

I am absolutely thrilled to have the Xbox franchise.

Despite what many say or think, the PS2 is here to stay. I know that Microsoft dropped the Xbox like a bad habit but PS2 still has more staying power.

Atari is a very sad story.

PlayStation consolidated the second wave of gaming. There was a slack period before it came when nothing much was happening.

I play both X-Box 360 and Playstation 3. I prefer X-Box 360, but they don't have 'MLB - The Show,' so I have to play every other game on the X-Box.

We definitely have a Wii U. It gets pulled out whenever there's a new great game coming out.

I'm big into the PlayStation 2. From what I've heard, the Xbox is the better system, but I can't get used to that controller.

The more consoles the better, because if there's more competition, they might get more open.

In the old generation, if one kid bought a PlayStation 2 and the other kid bought an Xbox, at his house you played PlayStation, at your house you played Xbox. Now that it's online, all those early buyers who... you want to play with, they've got their reputation online of who they are and how good they are at these games.

I've played a Nintendo Wii. I don't see it as a competitor. It's more of an expensive niche game device. We're selling a lot of PlayStation 3s now and it's still the best way to buy a Blu-ray player.

I got to play with Nintendo's Wii, yes it's a funny name and not very revolutionary but it was fun whipping your arms around.