GI: What are your thoughts on the Wii?
Eggebrecht: I love it, absolutely. I mean, I love it as much as the PS3. When I read all of those things about how you have to buy a 360 and a Wii, thats not true. You have to buy a PS3 and a Wiithats the perfect combination.
GI: So why Sony and not Microsoft?
Eggebrecht: On the technology front, there is simply more vision at Sony. By now, theres now moreif not more, at least equalvision on the online front. I have to say that. When we talked to Sony and Microsoft at the time, Microsoft was very determined and they delivered very nicely on what they wanted to do with the 360. But even back then, there was the, Well, 1080p? Well, we dont know about that. Real high-definition? You know what? Lets do 720p for the games, mostly. And theyre doing catch up right now, and theyre doing it quite cleverly. But nevertheless, in the early days you had that as a vibe of the system. What was a killer for me was no HDMI. We had huge fights with Microsoft basically going back and forth about, Please, please, please, please put an HDMI port in there, because only then can you really see the graphics, and they said, No, were designing the whole graphics chip around being analog. And theyre retrofitting it now, trying to catch up with the PS3. But all of that vision was there, right from day one, with the PS3. That was very encouraging. Kutaragi-san, in that sense, is on the technology front, and I dont think anyone would contest that its still the greatest visionary in the industry. So, it made it easy. Sony was the clear-cut, perfect match.