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Sony Shifting PS3 Marketing to Focus on Blu-Ray
Tabernaque86 writes "What started as joke among gamers Sony is now using as a Christmas advertising campaign. Kaz Hirai, president of the games unit, has been quoted as saying that the PlayStation 3 'makes a great Blu-Ray player'. That theme will be central to a wave of ads in North America and Europe. From the article: 'Sony on Thursday disappointed analysts by failing to cut the PS3's price, but Mr Hirai did not rule out a future price cut. "Going aggressive only on price without being able to back it up with content doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me," he said. A price cut would have a "real impact" on sales only if there were enough software titles to support the PS3. But analysts were skeptical and said Sony could miss its shipment targets for the year. "Without a price cut close to Christmas, reaching 11m shipments is going to be very tough," said David Gibson, analyst at Macquarie in Tokyo.'" This is regrettable, too, because there really are a number of strong titles coming out for the console this year.
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A friend did lose his house to a fire, probably started by his (original, early-release) PS.
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I was going to get a PS3 to make a nifty little webserver out of it by loading up Linux. I figured that even if I couldn't get Linux to use the graphics acceleration, it wouldn't matter. I could run a little webserver on it on my lan and stick it out in the DMZ. Perhaps I could learn how to program the nifty SPU's and rack up lots of points on something like Distributed.Net.
Heh, these things draw like 200W on idle. Thats more than a typical PC. $14 a month for electricity (estimated). I think I'll keep my little old 300MHz StrongArm Netwinder that draws 18W max. Thats about $1.30 a month!
Still, I'd like to get one to play with the cell processor in Linux, but it is kind of limited as a workstation not having 3D acceleration, burns too much electricity to be useful as a 24/7 server, and I'm lucky if I have time to play WoW a few hours a week, so its not like I want it for console gaming. For the price of a PS3, I could plug a AMD Phenom into my motherboard when they come out and see some serious performance boots.
Phooey. It really sucks when I want to buy a toy but can't find an excuse to do it.
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No he isn't. That figure has been widely discredited. Just because you want it to be true doesn't make it true.