Straight-talking Sony boss man Sir Howard Stringer isn't the guy you'd expect to be all coy about the Blu-ray / HD DVD battle of tedium, but his recent comments have been... almost humble.
"It's a stalemate at the moment. We lost some of our momentum when Paramount dropped our format, and winning the prestige battle is not the end of the world," he said, showing more restraint and dignity than most forum posters and commenters on the Blu-ray / HD DVD internet battlegrounds.
But Stringer became marginally ENRAGED when talking about the recent HD DVD exclusivity deal announced by Paramount, pointing out that "we were trying to win on the merits, which we were doing for a while, until Paramount changed sides," he said of the loss of Paramount's movie catalogue.
Stringer also took the opportunity to big-up PlayStation3, which he says is now the best-selling console in Europe following the recent price-cut. Although Nintendo doesn't agree with that - and has the graph to prove it.
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