Re: Playstation 3 Information, hardware, games & more discussion...
Good post there. You make a lot of great points.
Originally posted by Silverstring
I'm not saying it matters or doesn't matter, in regards to the PS3 and its value to YOU individually. I was just correcting your prior statement, so that other readers wouldn't be misinformed about Sony's experience in the DVR arena. Now you know something you didn't before.
I don't own any game consoles beyond an NES right now, and I didn't plan on purchasing a PS3 or an XBOX360, just a Revolution. BUT, I will say, if Sony packs all that functionality in, it would be attractive to me and other consumers who are comfortable with the higher price point as long as the other features are worth the cash outlay(of course this is individually determined).
Just like the PS2, families and parents I think will go toward a PS3 because the lure of an "all-in-one" wonder device is attractive. Families were able to stomach a PS2 in some cases because it included a DVD player, which still hadn't hit the masses yet. Similarly, the PS3 will be the game console for little johnny, the DVD/BlueRay player for everyone, the "Tivo" that the parents have been hearing about, and the memory card reader for mom-who is just getting into digital photography and maybe wants to show her friends photo slideshows on her TV when the friends come over. That, plus we all know how wives and girlfriends like LESS components and less remotes. Plus, the cachet of the Sony name.
If you're reading this, your probably gaming, computer, and Internet savvy. This functionality may not matter to you because you don't care, or because you do some of the PS3's promised things on your PC, or because you already have an Xbox or 360. That doesn't matter. The hardcore of every market-cars, consoles, computers, cell phones, stereos, etc.-like to think their individual, highly specialized needs stand in for the needs of the wider or mainstream marketplace. Yeah right. We don't sustain the game industry, and no matter how much passion we have for it, so decisions are not made on the behalf of our mindset. It's the reason that Microsoft put out a 360 Core(despite how much people here think the premium is a "no brainer") and the reason the PS3 might not succeed with us, but it will succeed among the WalMart shopping, AOL-having, American Idol watching, middle america mainstream. For us, a pure game system is bliss. For the most everyone else, particularly in the modern world where convergence is king(cell phones with cameras anyone?, tvs with dvd/vcr built-in, etc.) just a game console is seen as INADEQUATE. Which is why people will welcome the "wonder device" the PS3 is claiming to be (whether it lives up to it is anyone's guess).
I don't own any game consoles beyond an NES right now, and I didn't plan on purchasing a PS3 or an XBOX360, just a Revolution. BUT, I will say, if Sony packs all that functionality in, it would be attractive to me and other consumers who are comfortable with the higher price point as long as the other features are worth the cash outlay(of course this is individually determined).
Just like the PS2, families and parents I think will go toward a PS3 because the lure of an "all-in-one" wonder device is attractive. Families were able to stomach a PS2 in some cases because it included a DVD player, which still hadn't hit the masses yet. Similarly, the PS3 will be the game console for little johnny, the DVD/BlueRay player for everyone, the "Tivo" that the parents have been hearing about, and the memory card reader for mom-who is just getting into digital photography and maybe wants to show her friends photo slideshows on her TV when the friends come over. That, plus we all know how wives and girlfriends like LESS components and less remotes. Plus, the cachet of the Sony name.
If you're reading this, your probably gaming, computer, and Internet savvy. This functionality may not matter to you because you don't care, or because you do some of the PS3's promised things on your PC, or because you already have an Xbox or 360. That doesn't matter. The hardcore of every market-cars, consoles, computers, cell phones, stereos, etc.-like to think their individual, highly specialized needs stand in for the needs of the wider or mainstream marketplace. Yeah right. We don't sustain the game industry, and no matter how much passion we have for it, so decisions are not made on the behalf of our mindset. It's the reason that Microsoft put out a 360 Core(despite how much people here think the premium is a "no brainer") and the reason the PS3 might not succeed with us, but it will succeed among the WalMart shopping, AOL-having, American Idol watching, middle america mainstream. For us, a pure game system is bliss. For the most everyone else, particularly in the modern world where convergence is king(cell phones with cameras anyone?, tvs with dvd/vcr built-in, etc.) just a game console is seen as INADEQUATE. Which is why people will welcome the "wonder device" the PS3 is claiming to be (whether it lives up to it is anyone's guess).
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