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I was always of the impression that a new console was supposed to be the future of gaming. Not something that had to fend off the future, or be described as having armor to prevent the future from killing it. Apparently this is a holy war, because they are looking for evangelists to rouse the peasants. I have a feeling that the full transcript is going to be troll gold.

http://www.gamepro.com/news.cfm?article_id=135708

 

What's the number one reason to own a PS3 right now? According to SCEA president Jack Tretton, the console is "future proof," that's why.

"The original PlayStation lasted 10 years -- a tremendous innovation when other platforms died and were all but forgotten," Tretton told us in a recent interview. "The same thing is going on with the PS2, and I think that will be the case with the PS3."

He went on to say, "I don't think we expected nor we need to capture the lifecycle of the PS3 in the first nine months. We want to build evangelists, one consumer at a time, and it involves sacrificing in the short term before paying off in the long term."

Regarding the fact that some PS3 games often release weeks after their Xbox 360 counterparts, Tretton said, "We're taking all our development findings and investments and passing them onto the third-party development community.

"We are physically going to studios and working with them hand-in-hand. You will start to see that bear fruit in the near future."

A full transcript of the interview is forthcoming.



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I have seen some RE:UC box art and new born naked pandas on these forums today. But this is definitely the creepiest post.



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it's really not a good idea to "future proof" technology. PS3 is already an outdated PC to many. However, it does what it does. It doesn't need to be hot new tech to be popular (see Wii).
Sony reps just spewing garbage.



The PS3 is future proof? Only if you admit the possibility of spending money on rumble controllers after spending 600 dollars/euros on the console including controllers...



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I'd expect Tretton to continue to flog 'in the future' the PS3 will rule, as it certainly hasn't in the past nor present so future is the only potential time for this to happen.
But I can't believe he's still calling it 'futureproof'. That was a stupid claim in 2006 and seems absolutely ridiculous now. As far as the layman consumer and mass media seem concerned, the PS3 became dated technology two days after it launched, with the introduction of motion control.
I suppose the Sony discman was futureproof too.... until ipod came along.



 

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Faxanadu said:
I have seen some RE:UC box art and new born naked pandas on these forums today. But this is definitely the creepiest post.

ROTFLMAO funny said

PLAYSTATION®3 is the future.....NOW.......B_E_L_I_E_V_E

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If you are adding features which add minimal expense and enable future viability (for example USB ports, or a modified PCIe port on the bottom of your console for expansions) then it isn't a bad strategy to 'future proof' your console; consider the Gamecube as an example, which had expansion slots for a hard-drive, GBA player and modem/broad band adapter and yet was the least expensive system.

 



The way I see it, the way to future proof a console is through games that people will still play years after their release. For example, I still sometimes play on my old PS1, usually on a FF game.

Even though its successor is out, the PS2 is still outperforming it. That's because their are still tens of millions of people happy to play on all the great games it has. They don't care about the DVD player or Emotion Engine, people just don't care about hardware, they want to play good games. For some reason Sony seem to be ignoring this fact and ploughing ahead with the 'future proofed' sales pitch rather than concentrating on games that people want to play.



"The original PlayStation lasted 10 years -- a tremendous innovation when other platforms died and were all but forgotten," Tretton told us in a recent interview. "The same thing is going on with the PS2, and I think that will be the case with the PS3."

Someone has never heard of the 2600, NES, ect.



Leo-j said: If a dvd for a pc game holds what? Crysis at 3000p or something, why in the world cant a blu-ray disc do the same?

ssj12 said: Player specific decoders are nothing more than specialized GPUs. Gran Turismo is the trust driving simulator of them all. 

"Why do they call it the xbox 360? Because when you see it, you'll turn 360 degrees and walk away" 

lol. I love pr. Its usually funny.