Idiocy in the making

[Mochan]

http://ps3.gamespy.com/articles/751/751890p1.html

If there's one thing I hate for consoles, it's making multiple possible hardware configuratons. This just screws with the concept of console convenience and a "single closed system" to optimize the games. So we knew Ken was trying to market the PS3 as a PC, now it really is a PC -- though more like a Mediacenter PC.

Interestingly this I think is exactly what MS was trying to counter with the entire XBox thing: the PC market's status as a living room media center piece being threatened by an outside force (from Sony).

I think Sony is moving a wee bit too fast on this, though. They haven't even consolidated the gaming PS3's position, and they're already moving to do this. Well whatever.

[NEO-360]

http://ps3.gamespy.com/articles/751/751890p1.html

If there's one thing I hate for consoles, it's making multiple possible hardware configuratons. This just screws with the concept of console convenience and a "single closed system" to optimize the games. So we knew Ken was trying to market the PS3 as a PC, now it really is a PC -- though more like a Mediacenter PC.

Interestingly this I think is exactly what MS was trying to counter with the entire XBox thing: the PC market's status as a living room media center piece being threatened by an outside force (from Sony).

I think Sony is moving a wee bit too fast on this, though. They haven't even consolidated the gaming PS3's position, and they're already moving to do this. Well whatever.

Could it be that this is the direction that Sony wants to take the PS3 in order to stretch and eventually combine the international barrier between PC gamers and console gamers? :idea:

[Mochan]

Combine PC and console gamers? Nah. What they want is to get into the lucrative living room media center market.

[ilnadmy]

They're either really confident that the PS3 will do well, or they're using this to try to show that they're confident that the PS3 will do well. I know only rich early-adopters will be buying this system.