'I'm not going to make any predictions for your interview today other than we'll pass them, but you look at where we are today and where they are today, and they had an opportunity to sprint as far ahead of us as possible when they had the head start. I don't even need to go out 10 years,' he quipped.
'I mean, we've got 31 million worldwide right now - they've got 39 million. It's not a question of 'if' the PS3 will overtake Xbox 360, Dille went on to say, but 'when'.
'There is nothing but momentum behind the PS3 at this point,' he added. 'It was a speed bump that we had to overcome and we overcame it. 'The shortcoming was getting a lot of people whipped up and having them wait in-line and then only having a very, very limited amount of hardware supply globally, which meant that we had a kind of start and stop effect with our launch, which is hard to recover from,' Dille told IGN. Sony bigwig Peter Dille has explained that the real reason for PS3's slow start was poor levels of stock the pump was 'primed'.