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Sony Pins Hopes on E-Distro
Ars Technica reports on Sony's plans for their online service. As previously discussed, they'll be offering online play for free. They hope to make money via an e-distribution system. From the article: "Yet it is unclear what Sony intends to sell. While the 60GB hard drive in the premium console is spacious, it would not be large enough to hold a collection of HD video, although the company could sell storage add-ons in the future. We believe that Sony will initially sell other content, including music and standard definition video, as well as gaming content such as that available today in the Xbox Live Marketplace."
Is it just me, or did $ony (oh, cmon, if we can do it for Microsoft, why not for Sony, especially given the huge price tag of the PS3, and the evil of the rootkits?) throw innovation out the door this time around? Sure, they threw in the Blu-Ray, but copying the Wii-mote functionality, and now following up on the Live service? It seems to me that they are just following on the innovation of the other 2 consoles, maybe hoping that people will think 'Well, the Wii has this controller, and the Xbox has a great online service... but look! The P$3 (okay, I might be pushing the $ sign now) has both!!" In my mind, it might have both, but a substandard rendition of both...
The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel...
What was left out of the original translation from japanese is that Sony Computer Entertainment president Ken Kutaragi said that they would be offering everything from cellphone ringtones to a XBox 360 game emulator for the PS3, which he stated, 'Just involves turning a bunch of features off'.
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Sony to nickel and dime gamers to stay afloat
I really don't like the idea of episodic content. I'm not paying any developer, publisher, or hardware maker more money for a game I bought (non subscription, I do play WoW) just so I can get a better gun, or a new level, but I am okay with real expansions.
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