albionus said:
MikeB said:
@ Solidar
Except computers have 1000x the functions of a PS3 and the price of a computer can range from a few hundred to several thousand dollars
Some notes:
- A PC for a few 100 bucks won't come with a Blu-Ray player
- You can install like like me on a PS3 and use it for office tasks, chatting, webbrowsing, so the most popular PC tasks.
- PS3 consumers don't buy the device for general computing tasks, the PS3 has an impressive games line-up and a great PS2+PS3 games library, all features are ofterred pretty seamlessly through an easy to understand user interface compared to a PC operating system. Want to play a game? Insert the disc and play away, want to watch a Blu-Ray movie, insert disc and watch. Want to browse the web? Even a webbrowser is integrated, allowing you to easily browse the web on your TV, etc.
- Problems like with PCs (spyware, trojans, virusses, etc), driver issues, hardware specs which don't match the game you're interested in well enough, etc are pretty much non-existant.
- Games will be optimised for the PS3, allowing developers to get the most out of the system in course of time. On the PC you will always have to watch out of better hardware to run your game with the specs it was designed for and usually the true optimal performance cannot be achieved as there are so many different available specs.
Maybe now you better understand why the PC gaming market has degraded so much the last couple of years. Even XBox consoles offers a bigger games market than the PC games market is today. |
And for the majority of people who already have a computer and don't want bluray? You're badly missing the point here, the argument isn't that the PS3 can be seen as a good value, it's whether Sony has made the PS3 in a way that that most consumers don't view it as a good value. If you love the PS3, great, enjoy the cheaper added functionality, but don't expect that to translate into greater sales. To reiterate, that is the point here, Sony got confused about what the PS3 is supposed to be and it is hurting total sales (not that it is hurting sales to or the enjoyment of MikeB). |
