Zune can learn from PSP, says Microsoft boss

The Zune isn't like Sony's PSP🐽, says Robbie Bach♛ while ribbing Sony's portable

澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Microsoft's Zune can learn ওfrom the "cautionary tales" of the PSP, Microsoft's Enter༒tainment and Devices Devision boss Robbie Bach has said.

Speaking in an interview wi🌜th, Bach said that while the PSP was "reasonably successful" as a games portable, he thinks that music and video were an afterthought for the platform.

"The PSP is a reasonably successful product at the profit-and-loss level. But as a product concept, there are cautionary tales to learn from it," he said. "While it is good at producing audio, it's not a good music player because it doesn't have🍒 local storage (except for flash memory slots).

"You can't keep your music there. It has a beautiful screen, but you can only get the video under the Universa🔯l Media Disc f🦩ormat. That format hasn't been successful.

"On a game level, it has done well," he continued. "But even there, it is mostly PlayStation 2 ports. There isn't much oﷺriginal content. When you do these devices, they can't be pretty good at a lot of things. They need to be great at what they do."

Learning form the PSP, says Bach, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Microsoft has dec♒ided to focus on music with its Zune music player, which means that we shouldn't expect a singing and dancing Zune games service any time sooꦐn.

"We think oꦫf it more as a portable entertainment player," said Bach. "It is technically possib♌le to do games on there. But you aren't going to see a broad gaming effort from us until we sort that through and have it figured out.

"I don't think of Zune like the PSP. The PSP is a game player that also does video and music. We think of ജZune as a broad-based entertainment device."

That said, according to Bach the Zune is a greater platform for games than the iPod, which recently unveiled plans for an澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:iPhone games store.

"It is more compelling than an iPod because it actually has a D-pad. From a gaming perspective, it is reasonably well suited. You can read a little or read a lot into it. The point is that we think of it as a portable entertainment deviღce."

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Jun 13, 2008