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taxman on 27 May 2008

The only reason they should ditch it would be in order to market it to people that don't want a PLAYstation underneath their TVs. Lets face it, as a cheap madia centre device the PS3 is probably the best valued, but no one will buy it if they are not interested even a little bit on its gaming side (i.e. the PLAY part of the name)...

For example I have a friend who wanted to buy a media centre PC for the living room to complement his PC in the bedroom, however his g/f did not want a PS3 under any circuimstances because she didn't want him to play any games (whipped you could say?)....
Anyway he ended up buying a £900 Sony media centre PC with all the bells and whistles, but if you're asking me he wasted £600 for the windows interface and a bigger hard drive....
Now if the PS3 had the image of more of a media machine and less of a games machine, many people in the same situation would have selected it for media only....

Id Sony wants to place it as a media hub, the name might need to change....



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misteromar mk4 on 27 May 2008

I think the ps3 has done a pretty good job killing the playstation brand.



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darthdevidem01 on 27 May 2008

PS3 has shown just how powerful the PS Brand really is...



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Rock_on_2008 on 27 May 2008

Play Station brand name will never die. Long live Play Station name. PS1,2,3,4,5,etc. All sound cool.



darthdevidem01 on 27 May 2008

$599 ---- double price of competitors

£425 ---- double price of competitors

the story now is

http://vgchartz.com/hwlaunch.php

well above 360....below wii though

but just shows the PS brand is so popular that without games people were willing to buy em



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Viper1 on 27 May 2008

No, they can't change the name yet.  They promised us the PS9.

 

 

 

 



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Jessman on 27 May 2008

The Playstation brand will die when Sony dies, aka: Not anytime soon.



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SamuelRSmith on 27 May 2008

4 is an unlucky number in Japan.

Well, according to HSBC, it is.



chinmoku on 27 May 2008
scottie said:
They wont kill it off, but they deffinately should.

Not trying to start a flamewar, but PS1 and PS2 were consoles well known for lasting a long time, and the Playstation brand received much loving. The PS3 has destroyed most of this, and when the PS3 falls short of the 10 year mark (which it will, lets be honest), all goodwill towards the brand will be gone.

 That's ridiculous. The PS3 was the best selling console at the launch ever and will sell well again in the near future, respectively this year. The PS One and 2 sold more than 220 million together. At this point the PS3 is much more flexible and future proof than the other systems. So I don't think they will stop developing consoles or change the direction. Sony accomplished a turnover of several billion $.

The PlayStation brand will last for a long time and we will even talk with our children/grandchildren about this brand.



Viper1 on 27 May 2008
chinmoku said:
scottie said:
They wont kill it off, but they deffinately should.

Not trying to start a flamewar, but PS1 and PS2 were consoles well known for lasting a long time, and the Playstation brand received much loving. The PS3 has destroyed most of this, and when the PS3 falls short of the 10 year mark (which it will, lets be honest), all goodwill towards the brand will be gone.

 That's ridiculous. The PS3 was the best selling console at the launch ever and will sell well again in the near future, respectively this year. The PS One and 2 sold more than 220 million together. At this point the PS3 is much more flexible and future proof than the other systems. So I don't think they will stop developing consoles or change the direction. Sony accomplished a turnover of several billion $.

The PlayStation brand will last for a long time and we will even talk with our children/grandchildren about this brand.

Sony made just about $3.5 billion on the PS2 between 2000 and 2006.  If they post another $500+ million loss next quarter, they'll have negated it all completely.

 



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