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Sony Aims Higher Than The Gaming Market

Posted by Zonk on from the tomorrow-the-world dept.

Next Generation tries to take a look at what Sony is up to with the PS3, without going off on a rumour-filled tangent. Their thought? Sony is after something much bigger than the gaming market. From the article: "The big play is for the high definition DVD market, and in this context, an early launch, with small hardware numbers and threadbare games software support might just be a good move. This play potentially represents Sony's most important move in its entire history. Imagine; a royalty for Sony on every single DVD sold between 2006 and 2012 or thereabouts. No wonder Bill Gates hates Blu-ray."

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  1. Who cares? MS and Nintendo already won by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    MS's XBox 360 has some of the best online support for any console we've seen yet. Sony has ... nothing. (And, no, an ethernet adapter doesn't count. You need something to connect to, and MS has that, Sony doesn't.)

    So the XBox 360 will dominate the online gaming market, which is huge. Then you have the Revolution, which stands poised to revolutionize gameplay. That leaves Sony with... um... Oh, right, bigger discs. That's it.

    Sony's media can hold more than 8.4GB of data. I have no idea why any videogame would ever require more than 8.4GB of data, but if it really did, you could always - gasp - split it onto two discs. If you're going over 16.8 GB of data, maybe you ought to cut down on the cutscenes. And it's already been pointed out, many times, that no one is going to use Blu-ray for movies over DVD.

    Sony has nothing but sequels. Final Fantasy XXII, Gran Tourismo 12 AAAAA-Spec, Metal Gear Solid 8, Yet More Codec. Nothing new. Nothing original.

    All the online gaming will happen on the XBox360. All the original gaming will happen on the Revolution. All the tired, old, boring sequels will be for the PS3.

    Sadly, though, the more I think about it, the more I think that last sentence means that, in reality, Microsoft and Nintendo are doomed. Boring sequels always seem to sell better than new and original. Here's hoping that people really will boycott Sony over the rootkit fiasco - unfortunately, no one seems to remember that outside of Slashdot any more.