Gabe Newell says the PS3 is a waste of everybody's time

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http://www.edn.com/blog/1690000169/post/1110015711.html

I wonder what Gabe will say about this. It's the sort of thing he hates and ATI, Nvidia and IBM are all talking about going down this road.

One thing this article makes me think of is how bad for Sony! If this is the way forwar, PS3 will not last 5 years let alone the 10 Sony thought. It will hurt them more than MS as they invested heavily for PS3.

Eh? What they are desrcibing is very similar to the Cell. In fact IBM are talking about using the Cell for this purpose.

Uh? did you read the same article? Neither PS3 or 360's graphics chips (which is what they are talking about) are capable of doing what they are saying hence, in a few years Pc's will be way ahead of this gens Consoles. They are talking about taking the load off of CPU's.

The article has nothing to do with this generation. It is about the future of gaming. If this is bad news for the PS3 then it is equally bad for the 360 and terrible news for the Wii since none of them use a set up like this. PC's were way ahead of the PSone and PS2 a couple of years after they were released, it hardly hurt their lifetimes.

 

Your missing the point. Sony dubbed PS3 as a super computer. Said it was future proof. (10 years)Considering it relies on appealing alot to the graphics side of the market it gets hurt quite bad by this. They spent the most money out of all of them and as of yet have no graphicall lead to show for it. MS were planning to build new 1 6 years after 360 anyway. And Nintendo sit pretty as they dont rely on graphics at all. IT'S GAMEPLAYWII.

So as I said Bad news for Sony's Strategy.

I think you have misunderstood what Sony meatn by 10 year lifespan. it doesn't mean they are going to wait 10 years before releasing a new console (they will probably wait 6), it means they will support the PS3 for 10 years. They supported the PSOne for 11 years, including 5 years after the PS2 launched. They have supported the PS2 for 7 years and have shown no sign of stopping even with the launch of the PS3.

No I disagree. The use of the words future proof prove that. They dont need to tell any1 that they will support it even through the next gen. It does nothing for sales now. Also just to get more consoles out the door they stop BC on the 40gb version. Thats not supporting PS2 at all!

 It doesn't prove Sony wants to extend the cycle. It only proves Sony used a bunch of spin words.