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- Jonny5alive, on 10/12/2007, -15/+351If the PC is dead we'd better all cancel our Vaio orders.
- systmltdn, on 10/12/2007, -21/+306"The PlayStation 3 is a computer. We do not need the PC."
LMAO yeah right - sam10685, on 10/12/2007, -14/+157wrong. Wii inovate.
- shadcrkd, on 10/12/2007, -13/+156arrogant bastards.....
More like: "A computer is like the PS3. We do not need the PS3." - SkeletaLlama, on 10/12/2007, -9/+143In my experience "mature" consoles like the PS2 and Xbox are for kids who want to act grown up. Nearly all the owners of those consoles I know are under the age of 18. Real grown ups will play anything. Most adults I know game on PCs, Gamecubes, DS's, PSP's, GBA, NES, anything. Adults tend to realize that games are fun no matter what age group they're labelled for. Most older people I know play a fair number of supposedly "kiddy" games because they're fun for any age. Only young males aged 13-17 play only mature labelled games exclusively.
That being said I should point out that the Bob the Builder game was a Playstation exclusive. Now who's for kids? - chicagospur, on 10/12/2007, -4/+122The VAIO division will be very pleased to hear that!
- sirsteveh, on 10/12/2007, -12/+127Nintendo is not for kids, it's for a different genre of player. Like, the kind that isn't solely interested in blowing people's heads off. Sure, I play a lot of UT, but Fire Emblem is a turn-based strategy game whose gameplay beats the pants off most games. There are also (admittedly fewer) shooter games for the Gamecube, so don't just make a blanket statement about the console.
- Sirocco, on 10/12/2007, -8/+122Nintendo is for *everyone*, except maybe for insecure thirteen year olds who cling to the idea that their manhood hinges on being able to play GTA and Halo.
- Blarion, on 10/12/2007, -4/+108How arrogant can a company get?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+90Maybe the PC is dead because they killed it with their rootkit??
- CiXeL, on 10/12/2007, -11/+81Sony, shuttup while you're ahead. you're only digging yourself a deeper hole.
- mcbesq, on 10/12/2007, -4/+71Sony is in no position to trash talk right now. The Wii is a media darling, the 360 shipped and is in prime position for Holiday 06, and the PS3 is still filled with problems.
Nintendo is not where you go for kid games. It's where you go for fun games. And the 360 has shipped at least one must have title per month since release to go along with a seamless multiplayer experience.
Maybe Sony should shut up until the PS3 is actually a reality. (BTW: Is Okami ever going to come out?) - GreatBunzinni, on 10/12/2007, -11/+72@npsken
I'm a linux lover and a bleeding heart free software supporter and to me that "the PC is dead" comment is complete *****. Of course he is just trying to sell his product and in the process he is being silly. Yet, a console is a computer. A computer which is specially designed to play games and lock in the software which it is able to run. That alone is a sign that a console will never surpass a PC and that obviously a playstation will never accomplish that. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+63xD A pc can do much more things than a PS3. Will I be able to download music and Burn Cd's with a PS3? I hope so. I think it's only a way to justify the high price....
And what I want is a gaming console, not another computer!
2- Wii for Kids? hahahaha!
The Wii has great games, and I'd like to remind sony that 95% of the games for their consoles are from thirdparties, and they won't stay with Ps3 if it doesn't sell.
The thirdparties will go with the console which sells more, and if everything goes as expected Wii will oversell the PS3, and probably have the best games. - moylan, on 10/12/2007, -13/+70@npsken
the ps2 had an 'official' distro of linux too as an add on. it was restricted when accessing the hardware. will the new one be the same? they've released very few details about it. if it was a full distro with no restrictions and i could connect it to the internet and do some light development in python/java/perl on it i'd buy one. but i wouldn't be using it for games as i wasn't too impressed with ps2 or ps1 games. - fatalfury, on 10/12/2007, -3/+60Sony innovates? Try copies everything
- aplardi, on 10/12/2007, -3/+58Rest of the sentence after "We Innovate" ... "ways to make our company go under via over priced materials!"
- kriegs, on 10/12/2007, -4/+59lord, how much deeper can sony dig themselves?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+57The PC is dead? What the hell am I on now, a zombie PC?
- FuzzyCat, on 10/12/2007, -4/+52
It just might be. Are you running Windows? - xerokitsune, on 10/12/2007, -9/+57I seem to recall they said the same thing about the end of PCs about the time of the PS2 relice.
Sony's PR machine is infamous for wild and crazy claims. I mean who can forget the PS2 "super-computer" claims and them hyping the do not export to list.
The thing they brush under the carpet is over the course of the next 2 to 4 years, the PS3 will still have mostly the same hardware. I say this because keep if the system was entirely modular like a PC then each game would require PS3 system requirements. Where as in the PC world, a 2 year old PC often is showing it's age.
I could see the PS3 being a web appliance(web pages, mail, text editing, and even some graphic editing) but as a total replacement for a PC? I doubt it, not because the OS is weak but because it will be limited by the static hardware components. - Pacotheparrot, on 10/12/2007, -4/+50"We innovate"
lol, ya right
Because better graphics is so much more innovative than the Wii's concept.
Go home Sony.... - TruthElixirX, on 10/12/2007, -2/+46Sony flip flops to much. Wasn't it just some odd weeks ago they said "Get a PS3 and a Wii" right after Microsoft had said "Get a Wii and a 360"?
Which is it guys? Hate Wii or love it? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+44Yeah I think there arrogances is starting to be one of the reasons people hate them so much.
- cyberghost232, on 10/12/2007, -10/+49ok so wheres my DVD Burner?
- millixaw, on 10/12/2007, -6/+43"The Nintendo for kids is correct though.. Sony got that right.."
Well actually they got it half-right.
Nintendo IS for kids... and adults! It's for everyone!
(Frankly, I know more adults that like puzzle games and Mario stuff, and more kiddies that like to blow the heads off hookers. Go figure.) - Arramol, on 10/12/2007, -3/+40So despite the fact that I'm a 20 year old college student, I must be a kid because I chose Gamecube? What especially amuses me is Spaz claiming he's getting Dugg down by all the Nintendo fanboys who can't stand to hear anything except "Nintendo rules." Just how old do you think the people Digging you down are? Has it dawned on you yet that maybe we just find it insulting to be stereotyped as kids just because we like Smash Brothers and Mario Kart? I still don't understand why a game MUST be gory and filled with sex and profanity in order to be appropriate for adults.
- cbiz, on 10/12/2007, -11/+48Sony seemed to be trying to sell PC's and laptops last I heard? Maybe they have done us all a favor and goten out of the PC business?.
- OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -12/+47One year from now...
"Sony abandons console market. Sony CEO commits Harakiri." - sirsteveh, on 10/12/2007, -3/+37Have you ever heard of the GNU GPL? It's this nifty little license that states that Sony has to give you the source code necessary to build the OS, meaning that somebody is going to figure out just how to load it. If they can put NetBSD on a toaster, somebody can put a real Linux distro on a PS3^H^H^Hcomputer.
- SkeletaLlama, on 10/12/2007, -2/+34If Sony innovates, why'd they steal Nintendo's controller, Xbox's Live Marketplace and Spiderman's font? Couldn't they do their own unique ideas?
- mijokijo, on 10/12/2007, -5/+37Just got a NDS lite with Brain Age.
My mom and I both enjoyed it.
My brain is 45 years old :( - pabster, on 10/12/2007, -10/+41*****' idiots.
What they meant is that for the $699+ price of their PS3 one could get a very decent PC which will not only play games but do everything else too.
And Linux fanboys, quit dreaming. PS3's Linux will be locked up and down tighter than Fort Knox. It isn't like they'll give you the option to load your own distro... - Derrekito, on 10/12/2007, -11/+40It's almost as funny as saying Microsoft Innovates!
- Mist0r_Wiggles, on 10/12/2007, -2/+30These Sony people talks like they are 3 year-olds. Me system better. I take the marketshare. me like nap time.
- mark925, on 10/12/2007, -2/+29With the damage done at their E3 press conference, it seems like Sony is trying so hard to dig themselves out of the hole of negative public perception when in fact they are just making themselves look like even more arrogant fools and digging that hole even deeper.
- carpespasm, on 10/12/2007, -2/+26if you don't have a firewall, probably
- millixaw, on 10/12/2007, -8/+31"The PlayStation 3 is a computer. We do not need the PC."
More like...
The PC can play high definition games. We do not need the PS3. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+26last i checked Barbie games were PS2 exlusive
.... but those aren't kids games! some of them are reallllly hard! - SkeletaLlama, on 10/12/2007, -2/+24You mean like how it was more powerful than the computers in America's cruise missle system and how the Emotion Engine would fundamentally change gaming experience forever by rendering realistic human facial expression in real time at Toy Story quality?
- jm9206755, on 10/12/2007, -3/+24Although the "PC is dead" comment is silly the "we don't need the PC comment" has been widely misunderstood. If you read the entire transcript the context of the comment is PS3 vs the XBox360 in terms of being an all-in-one media center device. The point Sony was trying the make was that the XBox360 needs the PC to serve up content as a media server. The XBox360 also requires an additional add on for wireless connectivity. This is an obvious business strategy for MS to sell Windows Media Center and it's peripherals. The PS3 on the other hand (for the $600 version) has built-in wireless, a 60GB upgradeable HDD, readers for all kinds of portable storage, a full blown operating system, and Blu-Ray. For an extra $200 premium the PS3 comes as an all-in-one media center device without the need for lots of expensive extra devices. In some ways the Sony strategy is interesting because for those who wish to have a media center for their home they save a lol of money on not having to have a server and whatnot. Of course the extra premium is going to push away some people who want the PS3 only for gaming. Still doesn't mean the PC is dead but the meaning of that statement may be similarly lost in translation.
- SkeletaLlama, on 10/12/2007, -16/+37If it is a computer, can I install PC games on it to play? No? Didn't think so, because it's not a computer and we do need PCs.
- darkyoshi, on 10/12/2007, -4/+25You guys are misunderstanding what "We do not need the PC" means. What Sony is trying to say is that the PS3 will be the new standard format that everyone will use, just like Memory Stick, Mini Disk, UMD, and Atrac3. I mean, everybody agrees that they are the universal formats, so it's obvious that Sony would want to compete with the IBM PC standard.
...Right? - millixaw, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21"as to Sony being innovative... I'd say the Cell processor architecture is pretty damn innovative."
You can thank IBM for the Cell, not Sony. That's like thanking Apple for the PowerPC G3/G4/G5 series. - lordwow, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20I believe these will be looked back upon as "Famous Last Words"
- LycoLoco, on 10/12/2007, -5/+22Sirocco - Say what you want about Microsoft, but in the recent years past, they have indeed changed their tune at least somewhat.
- natmaster, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20PS3 is basically a PC that isn't upgradeable and has a crappier interface. Plus you can't play all the cool PC games. Spore, the new C&C, etc etc
- TheIncubator, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18Attack the PC's weakpoint for massive damage!
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