trasharmdsister12 said:
That is another way to go about it but I just thought that with a built in PS3 they'd also be improving Blu Ray adoption rates while increasing the life of the PS3 as it will be somewhat forgotten after the PS4 has launched. Pretty much, using any last drops of appeal the PS3 might have in established markets to improve their businesses across the board while making their TV, gaming, movie and music ventures more appealing world-wide in less established PS markets. Emerging markets (and heck, even some fully established markets) will have problems with the whole streaming of games thing due to bandwidth restrictions (Screw you CRTC!) so giving the hardware away seemed the better route to me. It would also improve awareness of the PS brand on a whole so it might even help PS4 in the future when PS5 is coming and PS3 TV owners are looking to upgrade to their next gaming experience in an emerging market. It's like the whole PS2 still kicking butt this gen. When all these PS2 owners look to upgrade, they'll most likely look to the PS3. Giving them this TV option is a "two birds with one stone" scenario, and can have a ripple effect for gens to come (if gaming survives Oh and if you like my ideas, write to Sony to hire me as an idea and strategy guy. I wouldn't mind making an absurd amount of money for a living for thinking up screwy road maps.
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That's a pretty solid idea. Plus it would save them having to develop their smart tv platform separately, as they would only have to continue with the PS3 system software. I never understood why the Bravia software was so different from the PS3. Plus I'm not sure the PS3 will be forgotten, not if they bother to put any kind of Gaikai on it.
Also, any ideas what is happening with PlayTV this generation? I haven't seen it mentioned at all in all the PS4 build up.
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