Sony says 'Screw those Old Geezer Gamers'

Written by Lan Party Socialite

Tuesday, 12 August 2008 17:59

Sony doesn't need your grandma. Hell, Sony doesn't even want your grandma near their systems. Scott Steinberg of Sony Computer Entertainment of America says they have no plans to emulate Nintendo's formula of innovation, despite its success.

"I think the notion of that controller is a non-trivial point that you've brought up, that control and that familiarity is like comfort food - from my perspective, we lead, we don't follow," he said. "And as a brand, Nintendo's got their thing, and we're not trying to get the senior citizen group to get into gaming, we're looking to convert the PS2 owners and the tens of millions of installed base that were playing DVDs and playing games on their PS2, to now play Blu-ray movies and Blu-ray games with their PS3."

Sony believes that if they convert their PS2 users to PS3 upgrades, they can go ahead and tell old gamers to go fuck their dentures. What those geniuses at Sony are overlooking, however, is that every human being on earth gets older by the second. Before we realize it, we're all going to be decrepit, wheelchair-wielding, Viagra-popping senile gamers who use systems like the Wii to get their daily fix of motion.