Are you at all surprised to hear this? Nintendo releases their next iteration of their wildly successful DS line of handhelds, and Sony in the wink of an eye swoops in to badmouth the product and let everybody know what the score is. Josh Koller, Sony's director of hardware marketing had this to say on the matter.

If Nintendo is really committed to reaching a broader, more diverse audience of gamers beyond the kids market that they've always engaged, there isn't much new with the DSi to support that update. Significant gamer demographic groups are being ignored, and there continues to be limited opportunities for games from external publishers to do well on the DSi. Compare that with the PSP platform, where we have many blockbuster franchises from our publishing partners launching this year, representing a wide variety of genres and targeting diverse demographics.

Right dude, I mean if you're playing a DS right now, you're probably 8 years old, and if you just bought another DSi, you've only fallen for Nintendo's trickery another time over. The man promises BLOCKBUSTERS for the PSP this year, I'll believe that when i see it.

For a long time I would get angry when a Sony rep would make a bullheaded comment with no grounding in reality every time one of their competitors did something smart, but surprisingly, I have grown to like it. The opportunity to pick apart quotations like these is always too good to pass up.