Comments on: “FUTURE PROOF PS3″

By: RoboJ1M

RoboJ1M — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 11:28:03 +0000

OK, wake me when the console is Â£200 and has a dozen games worth buying the console for.

Until then…

J1M.

By: warmwaterpenguin

warmwaterpenguin — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 16:38:10 +0000

That’s how you create evangelists? You sacrifice them in the short term? Here I was thinking you got consumers to sell your product to their friends by making them happy with their purchase and keeping your promises.

By: Terry

Terry — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:28:32 +0000

@23

PS3 needs to focus on the now, like you say I can see see new machines coming along within 5 years. I expect a 360 replacement is already in developement.

It was potentially stupid addopting Bluray befre it was established, if it were a hybrid between HDDVD and Bluray then yes thats future proof. Truth is neither is taking off yet, purely as its too damn expensive.

By: Gonuts

Gonuts — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:14:46 +0000

@22 - that’s an interesting point.

If games are going to develop to the point where they end up being epic enough to take up 50GB/ 100GB then one of two (but ideally both) things needs to happen to make it viable:

1. Removable storage media needs to get bigger.

2. Broadband needs to get faster with greater capacity in order to deliver and cope with millions of people downloading huge games direct to their machines at the same time.

I think number one will continue to happen until broadband catches up. Beyond that, I think the future belongs to direct downloads.

In 8 years time the PS3 specs won’t look good enough on either front, though.

That, and Moore’s law seems set to continue for the foreseeable future.

I don’t think there’s such a freakin’ thing as “future proof” beyond more than a single-digit years. I see 10 year-old computers as relics, good for nostalgia purposes.

By: Reza

Reza — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:38:10 +0000

Everyones saying “PS3 doesnt need blu-ray, its just too high tech and expensive”.

Do you honestly think that in 10 years time, people will still be using DVD for games?

Heavenly Sword is already filling a a blu-ray disk. This is 8 months after launch. Imagine 8 years after launch, could we be possibly hitting the 50GB/100GB mark?

Sony definitely made the PS3, with the future in mind.

Reza

By: carl

carl — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:07:45 +0000

@18, yes they are

By: Gonuts

Gonuts — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:08:23 +0000

Another weekly installment in the long-running saga of Sony’s bullsh*t and backtracking policy.

Translated in a specially developed bullsh*t filter, it means:

“Yeah, everyone’s probably waiting for the price to come down and more games to come out.”

By: ptpete

ptpete — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:55:59 +0000

That CVG report from Sky News seems so wack. Lol as if they’d get rid of USB! You wouldn’t be able to use half the features (linux, GH, Playstation Eye) not to mention the Sixaxis charging. And backwards compatibility is software emulation so that makes no sense either. But I think those were just rubbish examples that the Sky News journalist was giving in his ignorance.

One thing that really annoys me about Sony is the mess they seem to make of the marketing and exercution of their features. There is a real hotch-potch of different SKUs for the PS3 and all it’s features are great but none seem to quite work properly, the streaming and stuff. I wish Sony were a bit more like apple in defining what the PS3 does and in streamlining the product lineup. Also announcing stuff nearer it’s release date might be better too.

As for the PS store, did anyone notice that the midway games went up 75% from Â£1.99 to Â£3.49, who would pay that for Rampart! Lol

By: Terry

Terry — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:43:45 +0000

@17

Micro$oft scum!!

By: carl

carl — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:37:20 +0000

@16 Mircosoft bought that studio, so they didnt defect.