PS3 to kill PC Gaming?

Sony would be stupid to go and re-invent the Wheel - Mozilla is open-sourced. I would be very surprised if their Browser is not a Port of Linux-Mozilla. So you would have Flash, Java etc already in place. For Media access it would be a VLC Port same as Google are using.

A lot of activity is becoming 'Webcentric'with Google's recent purchase of Writely you will have Word functionality in your Browser. I can already access my Corporate email from anywhere using Web based Outlook. The beauty of this approach is that you would be able to access and modify your documents from anywhere using any Platform with a Browser.

It would be wrong to suggest that this will kill off PCs they will still be needed for heavyweight Apps like Accounting, Cad, DTP etc.

Looking two years down the road Wii with Opera Browser will cost £100, PS3 would be around the £300 mark would your 'average joe' still be prepared to splash out £1000 on a PC of equivalent spec?
 
Rather ironically what Sony are suggesting is the death of Consoles. I've posted this type of thing before so I'll keep it brief but Sony are no longer selling you a games console, there are selling you a Gaming PC with stripped down PC functionality and very limited software compatability, If this is the angle Sony choose to take than MS will hammer them into the ground. Nintendo will become the ONLY games console manufacturer. I'm not a fanboy but this is how I see things happening.

If we have two stripped down Gaming PCs on offer would you go for Sony or MS compatability?

Boogle said:
potentially the PS3 may be the one that is going to be 'killed', ironically enough, by an 'alliance' between PCs and consoles.
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Couldn't agree more :)
 
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The only reason MS got into the Video games business is because they saw all this coming. Put a Risc chip and Linux into a Consumer Electronics device and you have access to the Web and Media. The PS3 being their biggest threat.

However MS is fighting with the big boys now and they will end up having to eat humble pie. They have just had to back down on PDF in Office 2007 cause Adobe threatend to sue them. Example of how you just cant go around stealing other peoples technology. Big Japansese CE firms Pioneer, Panasonic, Sharp are all backing Bluray add Sony to the equation and thats 70% of your Player market plus 10 Million PS3's by this time next year. The only reason MS dont like it is cause it uses Java. Guess what I will take any bets that the next XBox will have a Blueray Drive.

Governments around the World are moving Open Document Format - ISO ratified. MS were reluctanat to support it so they wrote their own plug-in for Office.

The days when MS could go round bullying companies are over.
 
SiD the Turtle said:
Unlike Sony eh, who never bully anyone else either?

Predicting the Xbox 460 will have Blu Ray is laughable.
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You are being infantile.

Dont make arbitrary statements back them up with some constructive comments. All companies will use tactics to gain an advantage over others but none have been as predatory as MS. The consequence is that companies think twice about entering into partnerships with them.

So who have Sony bullied give some examples?

If Bluray is 90% of the market in 2 years time cause the big Japanese companies dont want to touch HD-DVD then MS would be very foolish to add a HD-DVD Player into their next Console.
 
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It is extremely unlikely Blu-ray will have a huge advantage over HD-DVD in the next couple of years.

HD-DVD is cheaper on multiple fronts (the hardware is cheaper to make, the disks are much cheaper to make*), and has a lot of support, about as much as blu-ray.
It's also already shipping, and some of the previously Blu-ray only studios have already started saying they will support it.

I guess what i'm saying is that to say that the PS3 will win the console "war" because it has Blu-Ray support is incredibly nieve, both next gen formats have about equal levels of support from the Japanese hardware companies (and more importantly the content providers**).

The thing that will decide which of the formats survives is the cost of the playback hardware (blu-ray looks more expensive), the cost of the content, and the actual level of content (specifically unique content).

Sony have bet a lot of money on the Blu-ray being a sucess, they cannot really afford for it to fail, MS on the other hand whilst being a big supporter of HD-DVD haven't put all their eggs in the HD-DVD basket, and could very easily support it on the 360 if they wanted (in exactly the same way they are apparently going to support HD-DVD).


*Replication plants can apparently upgrade existing equipment to produce HD-DVD's pretty cheaply, unlike Blu-Ray disks which I beleive require all new equipment (a massive capital investment).

**It doesn't matter what the best format from a technical point of view is if it's not got the content.
 
I agree it would be naive for me to suggest the Console Wars would be won on what Media format is used. There are a lot of other factors involved.

I simply used blueray as one example of MS being Control freaks. They initially were pro Bluray and then when the Blureay org refused to drop Java support they went on to back HD-DVD.

*Replication plants can apparently upgrade existing equipment to produce HD-DVD's pretty cheaply, unlike Blu-Ray disks which I believe require all new equipment (a massive capital investment).
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Re-tooling costs will be higher to produce Blueray Media but these can be re-couped over time this is how all Technology evolves you come to a stage when you decide you dump legacy stuff and move on to something better. The Technical gains are upto 200GB Capacity and 40Mbs Video.

**It doesn't matter what the best format from a technical point of view is if it's not got the content.
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The facts are all Studios apart from Universal are backing Bluray. The Porn industry is backing it in a big way. Until DVD-John cracks the encryption and security its going to be hard to copy. Not good for you and me but great from the Studios and Porn Peddlers perspective.

The big Japanese companies have always been in collusion. MS will have to pay them all R&D and prodction costs to entice them into making HD-DVD Players.

Toshiba earned lots of royalties from DVD so its in their interest to keep the format alive.

PS3 has a lot going for it Bluray is just one aspect theres lots more besides - Cell is a big factor, 1080p, Browser, Browser Apps, Media Centre, Video Chat, Skype can be added easily. From their point of view add whatever that doesnt harm your existing products but not everything e.g. would be reluctant to add PVR capability since it would infringe on other Products same reason MS are reluctant to add full blown Browser in the XBox.
 
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ben_j_davis said:
I think the PS3 will kill Sony.

I didn't know you could do photo/sound/video editing, design level's, write letters, run servers and a billion other things on a PS3? Oh wait you can't......

Every office and home is going to dump its PC and buy a PS3 instead. It may hurt PC gaming slightly but the truth is most fanboy's who own Playstations don't really buy PC games.
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Kinda inclined to agree with the quote as it sounds about right. I keep cringing when I hear the word PS3 as they really should have got it out sooner and they are seriously over hyping it. No console with ever make a PC redundant due to the sheer amount of options PC's give even the average consumer nowadays. Dx10 + next gen gfx cards will see to that as upgraded pc components always put the base unit back on top over the console.
 
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