NPD Gamasutra article (interesting facts on Sony)

[jarrod]

jneul said:

jarrod said:

jneul said:
if Sony leaves you do realize you will be losing the only company that has ever pushed for technology changes,

Too late for that, we already lost Sega. :(

Sega did push for changes as well, but Sony is the only one left who seems to be holding that baton right now, if they go well even you shall be sad eventually. I wish Sega would come back as well, I know how you feel

I dunno, outside Blu-ray's inclusion (which was for strategic positioning as a trojan horse for the format war, not really for games themselves primarily), I'm not really seeing anything in PS3 that's too progressive.  PSP as well, really.   If anything, the interface changes Nintendo brought this gen with DS/Wii are likely the most progressive technology integrations "for games" we've had.

Sony mainly seems to be just following Microsoft's lead with networking, tools, media, too.  PS3 is one big over-engineered response to the Xbox when you get down to it.