Unless the PS3 finds the casual audience to grow into, all the price cuts and technology won't matter.
Much of the PS2 late life sales can be attributed to the casual audience. Without that casual user growth, the long term prospects of the system is limited.
amp316 said:
No tech product is future proof. The most sophisticated computers in the world at one time were bigger than Rosie O'Donnell. |
Pish posh. No computer has ever been that big, even ASCI White is only about 1/2 an acre.
| FishyJoe said: Unless the PS3 finds the casual audience to grow into, all the price cuts and technology won't matter. Much of the PS2 late life sales can be attributed to the casual audience. Without that casual user growth, the long term prospects of the system is limited. |
Exactly PS3 needs to find the casual audience. This could only be accomplished by changing strategy. This means a new console or "upgrade PS3". Is the Ps3 future-proof to make this "upgrade" possible? That will remain unknown until next gen starts. We can only speculate about the advantages of nextgen over this gen.
If the Ps3 drops it's price 360 will also drop. Eventually PS3 might outsell 360 by a small margin. I agree that "only" price cuts won't matter.
Technology in terms of bigger and better won't be successful. Also agree on that one. Adding a new innovative technology will do the "trick" (casual audience). This could be 3D gaming (bios-upgrade). If games are releasing in 2010 PS3 could have a headstart of 1 or maybe 2 years.
Just like motion controls did the "trick" for Nintendo, so can 3D gaming do it for Sony.
Gamecube also had motion controls planned, but Nintendo has chosen wisely to make a brand new console. Sony faces the same problem, because the public thinks the PS3 is a high-end gaming console, while the new PS3 is aiming for 3D casual gaming.
I have a feeling the Wii is more future proof than the PS3.
| Thechalkblock said: I have a feeling the Wii is more future proof than the PS3. |
That's also my feeling if nothing happens.
1) The BluRay drive is too slow
2) The Cell is hard and expensive to develop for with poor middleware tools from Sony
3) The HDD is a $30 expense which will make it harder to ever be cheaper than the 360. It may not sound like much when the console is $400, but when it drops down to around the $199 mark, then it's around 15-20% of the entire console cost on the HDD alone. Microsoft learnt from the Xbox that it was a mistake to include a HDD in all SKUs, now it's Sony's turn.
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The Blu-ray drive is slow, that doesn't really matter compared to Blu-ray being the successor of DVD.
| Doktor85 said: The Blu-ray drive is slow, that doesn't really matter compared to Blu-ray being the successor of DVD. |
Ok, so it's irrelevant as long as you only want to use your PS3 as a BluRay movie player
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| RED53DEVILS said: Before you debunk this as more hell fire thrown unto the PS3 or any other console at that, please remember that I will never post flaimbait or fanboy crap. This article is here to highlight the many features generally regarded as Future-Proof on the PS3 and see just how future-proof they really are... I wil not base this on opinions but instead fully on facts.
Future Proof Feature 1 - Blu Ray?
Since the announcement of Blu Ray there have been many doubts and skeptics created in attack of this very capable technology, but when it waged war against the most popular HD media disc format at the time, everyone could see Sony meant business. We were about to see a turning point. The war was won, HD DVD saw its demise, earlier than many expected, And this is all because Blu Ray packs a lot of punch - It features a 25GB standard single layered disc and a 50GB Double layered counterpart. Far greater then anything known before. It is the one thing on the PS3 that has clearly differenciated it from the competition since release.
And with the movie industry adopting the Blu Ray disc as their very own... Its going nowhere.
Future-Proof? YES!
Future Proof Feature 2 - The Cell?
Every Console system has a processor, but not many have seen a processor as powerful as the PS3's Cell Processor. Since it was first announced there has been one word lingering on this gadget and it is 'Future-Proof'. Jointly developed by Sony Computer Entertainment, Toshiba and IBM, the Cell processor on the PS3 features a hefty 8 SPEs, 7 of which are operational all clocked at 3.2hz. This means the PS3 is able to handle more tasking operations and realtime calculations than the Xbox 360. To be frank - It is generally more powerful.
Although with all the Pros of this technology, there is one Con that has proved quite painful for the Playstation 3 and its users alike. It is the difficulty and learning curve that comes with developing for an entirely new framework. It is this reason that has seen many Multi-Platform games lose out of their extreme graphical potential on the PS3, and appear to have an edge on the Xbox 360.
But seeing as the Cell is indeed a new piece of architecture it is expected in the next 6 months to a year to become more familiar and soon enough become less difficult to code for and more approachable for the vast majority of developers who are currently finding it tasking.
Future Proof? VERY!
Future Proof Feature 3 - PS3's more universal Hard Drive.
If their is one thing very distinguishing about the PS3 as a games console it is it's amazing flexibility at least in the storage department, The PS3 is compatible with just about any 2.5-inch SATA notebook hard disk. This is a hard disk used by many laptops.
Because it is also shared by the PS3, Sony are not in any hurry to develop greater hard drive sizes. Toshiba, Hitachi and other manufacturers have that covered as they too use these hard disks for their laptops, and as people keep filling up their hard disks as games and other forms of media are being released in greater sizes and higher qualities - these drives can only get more spacious.
Future Proof? YES!
To conclude. Of the 2 elements of the PS3 that are most classified as 'Future-proof' and the 1 suprise entry(Hard Disk) I can say that they are pretty much as future proof as 'Future Proof' goes.
http://badassgamer.blogspot.com/2009/01/is-ps3-really-that-future-proof.html |
Future proof #4: Sony will try to kill Blu Ray for a new format to profit off of in the next 7-8 years.
Yes, or you just want a machine capable of gaming and playing movies.
Only 40% knows about Blu-ray. This means that Blu-ray was 1 of their reasons to buy a PS3. When the public gets more aware of Blu-ray it will be more then 40%.
"Elsewhere, only 40 per cent of those who own a PS3 were aware of it’s capabilities as a Blu-ray player, though the number of those aware of the machines high definition output was considerably higher at 50 per cent, compared to only 30 per cent with Xbox 360."
http://www.psu.com/NPD--PS3-owners-unaware-of-multimedia-features--a000930-p0.php
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