rocketpig on 28 March 2008
It can be agrued which features are more useful to consumers, does everyone really want to use Adobe Photoshop? I have an older copy of Adobe Photoshop on my PC and I am not planning on upgrading my PC for games, software or multimedia uses. Now I own a PS3, my PC will remain ´as is´ running XP (no desire to upgrade to Vista).
For entertainment a PS3 is very well specced, gaming, multimedia function and movies. Many people own a PC just for email and webbrowsing, functions which could be fully implemented on the PS3. The PS3 can technically run a game like Crysis, even an improved version taking advantage of the Cell or for instance better audio or more content using BluRay is possible (other areas like RAM usage may need sacrifices or workarounds). Just because Crysis doesn´t already run on the PS3 it doesn´t per se mean it´s not technically possible to run Crysis and vice versa for the games which are only available for the PS3.
Everyone I know own a monitor for their PCs. The PS3 is less of a fuss to use with a HDTV, it also easily fits most media cabinets. The PS3 isn´t reallty useless other than for gaming on a SDTV, at least on a PAL TV photo albums still look slick and the PS3 does a good job at outputting high quality music, webbrowing is a bit lacking in detail but still functional, etc.
For entertainment a PS3 is very well specced, gaming, multimedia function and movies. Many people own a PC just for email and webbrowsing, functions which could be fully implemented on the PS3. The PS3 can technically run a game like Crysis, even an improved version taking advantage of the Cell or for instance better audio or more content using BluRay is possible (other areas like RAM usage may need sacrifices or workarounds). Just because Crysis doesn´t already run on the PS3 it doesn´t per se mean it´s not technically possible to run Crysis and vice versa for the games which are only available for the PS3.
Everyone I know own a monitor for their PCs. The PS3 is less of a fuss to use with a HDTV, it also easily fits most media cabinets. The PS3 isn´t reallty useless other than for gaming on a SDTV, at least on a PAL TV photo albums still look slick and the PS3 does a good job at outputting high quality music, webbrowing is a bit lacking in detail but still functional, etc.
Photoshop, iTunes, Office, it doesn't matter. The point is that this PC will be able to run pretty much anything.
I'm not saying that the PS3 is not a capable machine for the price; it is. But the fact remains that I can build a PC for a little more money that will do everything the PS3 does, do it faster, all while doing about 10,000 other things that the PS3 cannot do and will never be able to do.
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