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Sony Rep Denies Need For PC, PS3 Better

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the i'm-koo-koo-for-marketing-talk dept.

Phil Harrison continues down the road of marketing hyperbole, now having gone on record stating 'we do not need the PC'. He has also denied claims of copying Nintendo with the PS3's Dualshake controller. From the Gamasutra article: "In a certain way, I understand why people would say such things, but it is stupid, if you'll forgive me saying so ... We have already worked on it a long time, and Nintendo almost certainly has done likewise with something similar. It is perfectly naturally for two companies to work on identical devices. It's like that with technology." Must be nice to live in fantasy land.

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  1. 256M RAM Supercomputer??? by fujiman · · Score: 4, Informative

    Well, the PS3 has a whopping 256 Megs of RAM (since they *dedicated* the other 256 Megs to Video, not to be shared). Linux will run fine under 256, but it won't replace my PC.

  2. Misinterpretation - he was talking about online by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    He didn't say that we don't need PCs and that PS3 will replace your PS3! He was saying that Sony did not need the PC to be in their online strategy ala Microsoft's 'Live Anywhere'. Look at the full question and answer:

    "SPIEGEL ONLINE: Speaking of online, Microsoft has just announced "Live Anywhere", an integrated Windows-Xbox-Mobile environment. Is that something you're worried about because you don't have the same access to the PC market as Microsoft does?

    Harrison: No, it doesn't concern me and I don't think it concerns the consumer either. Once you adopt a game system as your primary entertainment device, that's what you want. We think that Playstation 3 is the place where our users will be doing their gaming, their movie watching, their Web browsing and a lot of other computer entertainment functions. That will satisfy them. Playstation 3 is a computer. We don't need the PC."

    Taken from: http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,15 18,419072,00.html

    Note the last part of the interviewer's question, and the last part of Harrison's answer, and it starts to make sense. Quite typical that a Sony exec's comments have been taken out of context and misreported, in my opinion - it's happening a lot lately.