Sony drops Router Functions from PS3

astrokid writes "Well, it has begun. Sony announced that the PlayStation 3 will no longer act as a home network router. How long before more news trickles in about the downgrading of other features?" From the GI.biz article: "Whether that means the bank of network ports on the back of the box has actually been reduced to a single port is not clear, however, as the company has previously hinted that it has other plans in mind for the multiple network ports."

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Dropped to make cheaper

[TheRedHorse]

If you RTFA, you'd find they dropped it because it was too expensive to manufacture, so I would think they are removing at least 1 if not 2 of the gigabit ports, what does your average consumer need 3 gigabit ports for anyway?

I'd much rather see a more affordable PS3 than a do-everything PS3.

Re:Looks like PS2 pattern

[Keeper]

Missing PS2 "features"/hype:

http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9909/14/ps2.idg/
- Type III PC slot
- "new distribution system for music and video"; internet music service

http://www.stp.uh.edu/vol65/47/features/features-i ndex.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/1999/09/13/sony_puts_ playstation/
- PS2 will have an ethernet port
- download games online
- online delivery of music and movies
- ability to connect digital cameras and other media devices

http://arstechnica.com/cpu/1q99/playstation2-io.ht ml
- claims 100% backwards compatible

Do I really have to go back and find you quotes on the number of systems they claimed would be available on launch, the library of titles they claimed they would have, how they repeatedly said it would be 6 times faster than the fastest Pentium III, how they claimed it was capable of rendering movie quality graphics in realtime, etc, etc, etc.

They threw out much more crap than this, but it is difficult to hunt down content from 1999 and 2000 that still exists...