Why Playstation separating from Sony is necessarily a good thing.

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ganoncrotch said:

mine said:

Microsoft and Sony knew this when they decided to go the "cheap" route. This generation offers the least amount of power for the money compared to the PCs when launched. And both are not that heavily subsidized as the lifespan is expected to be much shorter then the previous generation one...

What? You are hardly suggesting that you could build a PC that would be comparable to the PS4/X1 hardware and capabilitys with the same price as either system? Keeping in mind that both consoles comes with everything needed to game bar a screen (controller, hdmi, power cables, operating system licence)

What he is saying is that when the Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 launched, it was equivalent to a high-end PC. (They still weren't equivalent to an Enthusiast level machine however, they're in an entirely different league.)

The Playstation 4 and Xbox One however are only equivalent to a 3 year old mid-range PC.

That's the difference between last generation and this generation , compared to a high-end PC, that is what he is saying.
Nothing at all about costs directly.
But if you wan't to get into about costs... If you like to buy allot of games and play tons of multiplayer, then over time a PC is going to be cheaper.




I also have to agree with this thread that keeping the Playstation as part of the Sony brand is a "good" thing as then the Playstation can leverage other segments of the Sony business, such as movies and music for the platform.
Consoles have long past evolved from being merely only "gaming" machines, but rather multimedia hubs, complete with Music, Movies, Social Media and Cats.