Sony - The Confusion

[dallas]

The article was well-written and of its 2 main points

1. That the PS3 is becoming less focused on games, the main reason that people buy it in the first place
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2. That Sony hasn't concentrated enough on the early adopters, to its detriment with respect to the PS3.

I disagree with both. The PS3 originally cost Sony eight or nine hundred dollars to make. If the PS3 started adding these things early on, when costs were already sky-high, they would have had an even harder time just getting off of the ground. The PS3 would have been the $700 peice of hardware that only a few people would have bought. Instead, I think that Sony wisely decided to give consumers a BD drive and the Cell, which I think gamers would want a lot more than the addone features anyway. So adding even more early on would have been a mistake.

Secondly, the article addresses Sony making the console too diversified in functions which I assume is talking about....the BD player aspect....Games.....social networking and now the FreeviewTV (in Europe) as well as the DVR (america and europe) now. Well, the 360 has many more options available to it right now, than the PS3. It also has chatbox features, matchmaking, video downloads, etc.

I think that the article is incorrectly prognosing the PS3's ills on its diversified functions instead of looking at the obvious factor, its pricing.   The important fact of the matter is that once you get a good enough GPU and CPU, Sony gets a lot more flexibility with what it can do cheaply.  The good GPU of the PS3 not only works for games but it does double duty as it will work for BD playage as well, and soon it will also be able to handle HD video with its DVR functions that has just been officially announced.   So, we are getting a wide variety of usage from this GPU....it doesn't just have to be used for games and this saves the consumer a lot by not making her buy a BD player, and a $500 Tivo, when a PS3 can do all at once.