[ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/4981964/Top-10-inventions-that-changed-the-world.html ]
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5. PlayStation

Although games consoles had been around for some time, Sony’s PlayStation took gaming out of spotty teenager’s bedrooms and into adult living rooms when it was released in 1994.

Here was a computer with more power than the average family PC. As of July 2008 more than 102 million PlayStation units have been sold, while the next generations, PlayStation 2 and PlayStation 3, have also been turned into best sellers.

The gaming industry is now worth almost as much as the film industry, taking in more than £15 billion in 2008.
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BFN,

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Where does this leave the PS3, other than now being a full $300 dearer than the PS2 in the US? And if they can build a full console for $99 and still turn a profit, is it really that difficult to include enough components in the the PS3 to make it backward compatible? Two things will send PS3 sales through the ceiling - either a $100 price reduction, or the inclusion of full PS2 compatibility - until they do one or the other they will remain routed in last place, somewhere Sony management seem perfectly content to be this gen…

a) Price-cut
b) Big Firmware Update
c) New Motion Controller!
d) Something none PS3 related

Or could it be something completely different? Rumors have been doing little twirly things all over the internet over the past few weeks regarding a potential PlayStation 3 price cut, and while our first thought was “Why would they announce it several days after GDC?”, apparently they are indeed announcing something several days after GDC. Go figure.

We’re leaning towards a price cut, but we’ve got a sneaking suspicion that it’s the PlayStation 2 dropping to $99, and not a cut for the PlayStation 3.

All we know so far is that they’re announcing something. There’s only one thing to do now. Let the wild speculation begin! What do you

On one hand, the games industry is perceived (wrongly, in my opinion) as an evil and bad educator or children and teens.

On the other, however, they’re to be praised, especially during a time when the economy is not doing well and the government needs to claw back as much tax from citizens and companies as possible, in order to put it into the mouths of the bankers who got us all into the current economic crisis that we’re in.

I’ve not read the full thing, but the cynic in me notes he’s a Conservative MP, and we all know how they’re desperate to be all things to all men lately. This could just be an attempt to appeal to younger voters…