Insomniac's Brian Hastings speaks out on the PS3

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drago said: True enough. The only problem is the value equation. The perceived value for wifi,online play, Blue-ray, a hard disk, High Def visuals and so on, varies depending on want someone wants, expects or can afford. Giving gamers a choice if they want none, only some or all of them, would be benefit both sides, I think. You dont want any of those, you just want to play the new PS3 games? Fine, just get the 250$ one. Or you want all of them? Then the 800$ Premium is for you. Or you want just High Def and upgrade the rest later? Also fine, get the 400$ one and buy everything else later as you see fit. All of a sudden Sony breaks even on Premium and loses less on the rest. (Note: I am not saying, that this would be easy to pull off, but if done right, it could have helped a lot.)

Who should the choice lie with? Developers develop for the lowest common denominator. So if there is an SKU without the high def visuals, blu ray, hard disk, and online play then most devs will program so those that do not have will work. Believe or not it makes the add-on's useless why bother get the higher SKU if the "majority of games will not take advantage of it? This is what I see the illusion of choice is. I want the high def visuals and blu ray and other features. Why should I be gimped on those? Multiplatform devs are already programing for the 360 in mind first so why would I want any exclusive studio or first party to be locked in the same restrictions? I want to give developers the choice. Here are these features you have at your disposal.... use what you feel is needed to get your game across. Who knows... what if some of these devs really have plans on making a 50 gig game, or wants to use the HD capabilities? So the way I see it the choices are just right where they need to be. The devs have a choice of which systems and platforms to dev on and the consumers have a choice of what system to buy. Complaining about features offered on one systems is more harmful than helpful so IMHO If people do not like the features of the PS3 then chose another system. If you don't like the online component of the Wii either wait or buy a 360. It is really that simple.