To preface what I have to say, I am 100% fanboi! I've owned NES, SNES, n64, GB:color, GB:A, GC, nDS, I fully intend on getting a ds:lite and a Wii as soon as I can. I've never owned a sega system or a Sony system, I've owned up to my sad reality so that nobody has to flame me.
It's clear to most at this point that Ken has a problem with constantly making inflamatory comments that get people going. But to take offense to his comments here is absolutely foolishly childish and short-sighted.
From Sony's point of view, and I would argue an informed point of view, the additional 100-300$ price tag (depending which 360/ps3 varients you wish to compare) is well worth the investment. Sony (and msft, but i would argue to a lesser degree) decided to expand what people expect from a videogame system, allowing for the owners to experience it more as a multimedia system. Whether you agree or disagree with such an approach, this the manor in which Sony and Msft's systems should be judged. Both companies see this approach as a way to strengthen all the markets they are involved in by attempting to bring them together (everyone's heard the buzzword "convergence").
So far both companies have failed pretty succinctly at this quest. The xbox adventure for microsoft thus far has been quite successful at subsudising two pretty complete multimedia-gamesystems to the public (clearly total fiscal disasters, but thats neither here nor there). These are but are the xbox's truly computers for your living room? Not quite and it's the same case with the playstations up to this point.
Though it seems that it might be different case with the PS3. I think most people are looking at Sony's next console very shallowly, nobody can get past the idea that it's a trojan horse for their war with Blu-Ray. It might be true that Sony is trying to use their clout in the multimedia-videogaming market to help them make a new standard of optical disks, but I think Sony wants to accomplish much more with their newest product.
The reason the PS3 is going to be worth more than a 360 is its capabilties, not just Blu-ray capabilties, I believe Sony is going to deliver a real computer that you can hook up to your TV. They intend to release the system with an install of a very mature (at this point) open-source operating system, which should allow people to utilize it in many more ways than the 360 "dashboard".
The PS3 is going to be worth the money, but its up to Sony to market the heck out of it to show everyday folks why that is so.
Me I know why it's gonna be worth the money, but I have 4 computers already so I'm probably quite a hard sale, especially considering I'll be spending quite a lot of my money on Nintendo goodies, =P
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May 17th 2006 3:45PM (Joystiq)It's clear to most at this point that Ken has a problem with constantly making inflamatory comments that get people going. But to take offense to his comments here is absolutely foolishly childish and short-sighted.
From Sony's point of view, and I would argue an informed point of view, the additional 100-300$ price tag (depending which 360/ps3 varients you wish to compare) is well worth the investment. Sony (and msft, but i would argue to a lesser degree) decided to expand what people expect from a videogame system, allowing for the owners to experience it more as a multimedia system. Whether you agree or disagree with such an approach, this the manor in which Sony and Msft's systems should be judged. Both companies see this approach as a way to strengthen all the markets they are involved in by attempting to bring them together (everyone's heard the buzzword "convergence").
So far both companies have failed pretty succinctly at this quest. The xbox adventure for microsoft thus far has been quite successful at subsudising two pretty complete multimedia-gamesystems to the public (clearly total fiscal disasters, but thats neither here nor there). These are but are the xbox's truly computers for your living room? Not quite and it's the same case with the playstations up to this point.
Though it seems that it might be different case with the PS3. I think most people are looking at Sony's next console very shallowly, nobody can get past the idea that it's a trojan horse for their war with Blu-Ray. It might be true that Sony is trying to use their clout in the multimedia-videogaming market to help them make a new standard of optical disks, but I think Sony wants to accomplish much more with their newest product.
The reason the PS3 is going to be worth more than a 360 is its capabilties, not just Blu-ray capabilties, I believe Sony is going to deliver a real computer that you can hook up to your TV. They intend to release the system with an install of a very mature (at this point) open-source operating system, which should allow people to utilize it in many more ways than the 360 "dashboard".
The PS3 is going to be worth the money, but its up to Sony to market the heck out of it to show everyday folks why that is so.
Me I know why it's gonna be worth the money, but I have 4 computers already so I'm probably quite a hard sale, especially considering I'll be spending quite a lot of my money on Nintendo goodies, =P
P.S. DOWN WITH WINDOWS VISTA, for it is evil.
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