Microsoft Downplays Sony Portable

Microsoft spokesman Peter Moore is up to his silly ways and compares Sony's PSP launch as being similar to a company trying to challenge the Windows operating system.

“Nintendo’s dominance of the handheld market makes Sony’s launch “like developing your own little operating system and saying, ‘Well, I’m going to challenge Windows’,” Moore told questioners at a Halo 2 Backstage Pass event in Seattle late last week, according to a report in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

Chief Xbox officer Robbie Bach was less dismissive of the system, but he argued that the launch was largely irrelevant to the Xbox business. “I think, in general, it’s different than our [console] business,” he told the audience.”

We are speculative on whether Peter Moore has ever really understood the gaming market, and with comments like this is, it makes us question his role all together. We fail to see the connection he is trying to make, but he certainly makes Microsoft appear clueless too.

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