NPD Gamasutra article (interesting facts on Sony)

[jneul]

jarrod said:

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.

Every PS has pushed some new form of media, but I remember DVD was not used to it's full potential at first either, one day you shall see all of a BR disk getting filled for most games and not just games like MGS4, so I diagree with the trojan horse part, sorry

Yes but Microsoft are also copying from Sony as well, so things are getting messy right now, but the one thing that makes the PS3 stand out is the unique architecture that the Cell uses, I mean it has caused developers to think in entirely new ways, it is an evolution of coding, and from my point of view, a much needed one.

Anyways i'm tired now, but thanks for the insight, maybe we can talk again bye