I wasn't too impressed with the presentation of the playstation without ever showing the playstation.
I am certainly not the target group, but I think all this share crap is bs. Yay, flood facebook with the latest achievements, yay, flood Youtube with crappy game vids.
A real social way to game would be to have two video outs on the PS, this way you could use a second monitor and play co-op with or against a buddy - maybe with less graphic details. Or the possibility to connect PS4's directly or in a local network.
I think it's much more social to play with people who are physical present in the room.
Also the permanent recording of the last 15 minutes is a huge waste of resources if it's not optional.
The decision to enable playing PS3 games via stream, is actually pretty clever - from a business point of view. Though I see some problems with it: latency under suboptimal conditions, game licensing (e.g. do you have to pay to play the PS3 games you already own?), no offline gaming.
The most important point for my decision to buy one, wasn't mentioned: the possibility to play offline.
After all I think Sony wants to cater to the Generation Facebook and to the urban market; you see the latter in their doctrine to expect at least a 5mbit connection. They don't consider or care that there are still people with a lower bandwith, a limited amount of web traffic, or simply antisocial nerds like me who prefer to play in their hole and don't care much for online gaming.
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Originally Posted by the_tyrant
Ok, I might be going against the general opinion here, but in my opinion playstations have always been a pretty good deal (better than both Xboxes and Pcs)
I'll use the PS3 as an example, since the PS4 isn't out yet.
When the PS3 came out, people ridiculed it for its high price. But here is the thing, at launch, it was 399$ ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlayStation_3_launch) |
Well the price mentioned link you provided goes for the 40GB version, the link also states that it was put on the market in fall 2007 and $100 cheaper than the orginal version (also due to the missing chip for backwards compability to the PS2) And many people also forget to add the sales tax on top of North American prices.
However I agree that the PS3 was a good deal, it was even a good deal if you just bought it as a Blu-Ray player back then. It was only marginal more expensive than pure hardware players - however the energy consumption of the PS3 was and still is much higher. (Energy costs is also something you have to include into the calculation
).