A PC is NOT a Console!!!!

[ironman]

ssj12 said:

ironman said:

tedsteriscool said:

ironman said:

Solid said:
I can watch movies on a Xbox360/PS3, therefore they are not consoles.

WRONG! The PS3/360 are no optimized to do anything other than play games. They CAN do other things, but are hardly as versitle as a PC.

Actually, I'd go as far as to say the PS3 was designed/optimized with Blu-ray as a higher priority than gaming. It was by far the best player at the time (and is still fantastic, especially at its price). PS3's main focus was to push BD. Gaming was an afterthought...until now at least.

That is purely speculation.

Actually Ken Kutaragi has stated the PS3 is designed to be a multimedia device, not locked in as a propetuary device with added features. The entire purpose of the PS3 design is to be able to play Blu-ray movies, listen to movies, watch slideshows with your pictures, browse the internet, install a secondary OS for general PC purpose tasks, and many other things. While the secondary OS feature has been removed in the new slim PS3 it is still overly capable of playing a wide variety of media formats and has a new web browser that allows for better internet functionality.

The PS3 is not a gaming console, it is a media hub.

At the end of the day, the PS3 is mainly a gaming machine. You cannot install a secondary (overly buggy version) of Lynux on the new PS3s, and even when you could, it had severe limitations as to what it could do, mainy due to the hardware restrictions that are a trademark feature of a gaming console.