Seems like Sony is content with the PS3 underselling despite what they think and has no plans in the pipeline to mimic Nintendo's success by drawing in the older gamer set.
Sony Computer Entertainment America's Scott Steinberg recently said by getting PS2 owners to upgrade to a PS3, this will assure them of a "hands-down" victory in the current generation console wars.
"I think the reality is that we will win hands-down if we convert the PS2 owners to PS3," he said. "When we look at the total available market, we salivate at the notion of converting our existing PS2 universe.
"Every million units we drop into the PS2 is an annuity that's going to pay out later on for PS3 upgrades, and we've got some interesting ideas on how to reach out to those PS2 owners in the US and convert them up."
This guy is seriously in La La land if he believes what he just said but it gets better when he gets questioned about Sony releasing a Wiimote like device to compete with Mario and co.
"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."
He then leads onto explain Sony's methodology as to why the PS2 has sold so well for the past 10 years.
"We would look at technology that helped enable that, as oppose to trying to iterate or be derivative off of somebody else's vision," he said. "Ten years - it goes back to our mantra of ten years. Technology that's associated with the PlayStation has to have future-proof qualities to it."
And in final stab at the Playstation naysayers, he makes a point about mentioning the relative age of the competitors and how well PS2 has done despite this.
"I think that we're seeing, graphically, PS3 games starting to create some distance and some of the other competitors are going to feel that they're getting long in the tooth, looking quite dated, because they haven't created that ten-year vision from a horsepower standpoint."
Who wants to start laying bets now where the PS3 will be in 10 years time, hmm?