User: abaddononion

Re:Look at what you get for the price

On: Low-End PS3 Comes with HDMI, Cheaper in Japan

They are marketing to PC gamers who want to play console games.

Whether or not this is true, I cannot contend to. However, it seems to me to be an awfully narrow niche audience to go for at the cost of alienating anyone else who might have been interested. I mean, I am a long time Sony fan, myself. I went through the Playstation, PS1(slim), Playstation 2, and PS2(slim), all very happily. But then the PSP came out... oh my, a pretty handheld. Gah, it's awfully expensive for a handheld. Wait, it has wireless? and plays movies? Hmm. Wait a minute, I forgot. I dont care that my handheld can play movies. Especially since they're on a proprietary format that Sony controls all rights to. I know Im not alone in this sentiment, either. A recent article I spotted somewhere (can't remember where, may have been slashdot itself, sorry for the lack of a link), said that UMD movie sales were not as high as Sony had expected. Now, I suppose it's fairly safe to say Blu-Ray will be different, just because it is going to be at least near-highest available quality (if it ever surpasses HD-DVD), and there will probably actually be other Blu-ray disc players, there's a real chance that it'll work out. But it doesn't change the mindset going into the whole thing. I mean, when Sony first said, "We don't want the PS3 to be a console. We want it to be a SUPER COMPUTER" (paraphrasing, obviously), I was thrilled. I thought this sounded like it was going to be a fun and exciting new console, with all kinds of mysteries. And now, it seems that the more I hear about it, the less marvelous mysteries there are, and the more we're just paying near-computer level prices (hey, catch a good sale, you can get a new fully featured AMD laptop for those irrational people.)