The thing that's going to kill the PS3 is the price. If they don't release at the same point, or less, than the X-box, people are going to have to strain their wallets to afford this thing. Very few people are about to spend $800 for a console - there's a lot better ways to spend that money (you could even buy a 360, and several games).
Not to mention that, by the time the PS3 comes out, there will be many titles available for the 360. Although (as TFA shows) there are a good deal of games in development, the 360's titles will have matured while those for the PS3 will remain untested.
Finally, the longer it takes for Sony to put this console out, the less people will have confidence in it. Console developers are always hush-hush about their products, but at this point, it would do Sony well to clarify some things; they keep saying that they're going to release on-schedule, but nobody else sees how they can possibly do that. If they _do_ release on schedule, I for one will be forced to assume that it was rushed to market, and therefore not worth the risk (especially at that price).
With the all the recent news of organisms being able to survive in space, survive shuttle crashes, and all sorts of other crazy environments, we really ought to be careful what we bring back to Earth. I'm all for the advancement of science, and I think this particular experement is incredibly cool (both from a "what we can learn scientifically" standpoint, as well as a "holy crap, you guys were able to do WHAT??" standpoint), it'd really suck if we don't take the proper precautions, and wind up bringing back some organism that can wipe out all life on Earth.
That being said, way to go NASA!
I recently got my first job in an IT office, and the one thing that really surprised me was the amount of women working there. Although men outnumbered women by a little less than 2:1, I hadn't expected to find that many women in the first place. And, when a female applicant arrived for an interview, it seemed that she was always given equal treatment as compared to a male applicant (dare I say, it may have even appeared that she was prefered, simply due to her sex).
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The thing that's going to kill the PS3 is the price. If they don't release at the same point, or less, than the X-box, people are going to have to strain their wallets to afford this thing. Very few people are about to spend $800 for a console - there's a lot better ways to spend that money (you could even buy a 360, and several games).
Not to mention that, by the time the PS3 comes out, there will be many titles available for the 360. Although (as TFA shows) there are a good deal of games in development, the 360's titles will have matured while those for the PS3 will remain untested.
Finally, the longer it takes for Sony to put this console out, the less people will have confidence in it. Console developers are always hush-hush about their products, but at this point, it would do Sony well to clarify some things; they keep saying that they're going to release on-schedule, but nobody else sees how they can possibly do that. If they _do_ release on schedule, I for one will be forced to assume that it was rushed to market, and therefore not worth the risk (especially at that price).
With the all the recent news of organisms being able to survive in space, survive shuttle crashes, and all sorts of other crazy environments, we really ought to be careful what we bring back to Earth. I'm all for the advancement of science, and I think this particular experement is incredibly cool (both from a "what we can learn scientifically" standpoint, as well as a "holy crap, you guys were able to do WHAT??" standpoint), it'd really suck if we don't take the proper precautions, and wind up bringing back some organism that can wipe out all life on Earth. That being said, way to go NASA!
I recently got my first job in an IT office, and the one thing that really surprised me was the amount of women working there. Although men outnumbered women by a little less than 2:1, I hadn't expected to find that many women in the first place. And, when a female applicant arrived for an interview, it seemed that she was always given equal treatment as compared to a male applicant (dare I say, it may have even appeared that she was prefered, simply due to her sex).