UK senior regional director for MS has been speaking to the times about the arrival of PS3 across Europe last Friday.
"In the technology and gaming there's really little in the PS3 where I can say, 'Gosh, I wish we had that'," he told the Times online. "The biggest threat that Sony has for us is the brand that's been established around it."
While Thompson admitted that PS3's graphics would give 360 a run for its money, he said that Microsoft is leading the race in the online department: "More and more we're seeing that the online experience is a really important factor. Sony has come up with an online world that seems to let you do just about everything except gaming.
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"It's two, three years ahead of the market. People won't want to replace their entire DVD collections, and they'll get a better resolution with a standard DVD on an Xbox than a PS3. It's nowhere near the importance of the format war between VHS and DVD. The internet is becoming an increasingly important medium. Surely online is going to be the distribution method for much of the high-definition content."
You can read our exclusive interview with Stephen McGill, Microsoft's head of gaming and Entertainment and Devises Division UK, here, where he asks where Sony's killer games are.
If you happened to be in a coma last week and have just woken up, check out our UK PS3 launch report right here, including an exclusive movie of the first PS3 in the UK being sold.
