Dec 8, 2005 10:29 PM

Former Warner exec lashes out at Sony

I wonder what’s got Warren Lieberfarb, former president of Warner Home Video, so riled up. Next Generation reports that during Lieberfarb’s speaking time at the Perspectives in European Video conference, he blasted Sony for suckering Hollywood into the next-generation console wars: “If I put Blu-ray in PlayStation and I don’t license it to Microsoft for […]

I wonder what's got Warren Lieberfarb, former president of Warner Home Video, so riled up. Next Generation reports that during Lieberfarb's speaking time at the Perspectives in European Video conference, he blasted Sony for suckering Hollywood into the next-generation console wars:

"If I put Blu-ray in PlayStation and I don't license it to Microsoft for Xbox and I get all the studios to only publish in PlayStation, I'll beat Microsoft in the next-generation games market. We've been sucked into PlayStation versus Xbox. ... Hollywood blew it. They got duped."

More choice quotes, including a bit about Sony's "samurai" tactics (um, 1985 called and they want their airport business paperbacks back), at Next Gen.

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