Sony UK's very own Ray Maguire has been espousing the virtues of the Black Box o' Blu-ray once again, this time claiming the the PS3's functionality was so "radical" that Sony simply couldn't devote its time to making videogames. It's simply that easy to forget that your games console is for games, apparently.
"When we first started - because all the functionality was radical - we talked about that functionality," Maguire explains. "And in doing that, maybe we weren’t strong enough on the games side of it. Now, with the strength of the games we’ve got coming out, this Christmas we’re definitely about the games. From our own first party, and also third party, there’s a feast of games for PS3 this year."
Grab a fork, boys, it's feasting time! Far be it from Sony, however, to forget that there's still all that radical functionality. Maguire asserts that people are only now beginning to "understand" features like PlayTV and the relationship between the PS3 and PSP. It's radical!
The PS3 is, without a doubt, an amazing piece of technology, but Sony needs to not repeat its mistakes by forgetting that gamers care primarily, and sometimes exclusively, about videogames. The PSP was also marketed as a multi-functional device, but it feel flat on its face when it went up against the comparitively low-tech, but infinitely software-richer, DS. Extra functionality is great, but it should never, ever come at the expense of the games. Hopefully Sony has learned this now.
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4:15 PM on 11.11.2008
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"tomayto", "tomahto"
(I'll be fair, though, I just gots my PSTriples this weekend and I'm having a ton of fun with LBP and Assassin's Creed... But right now I feel that apart from teh blu-rayz it's "other than games" functionality falls flat compared to Wii Weather, News, PSN isn't as robust as Wii Shop (yet) although it does have some really interesting things on offer...and the Playstation offerings (I still call it Virtual Console) make pandas sad...Folding@Home is pretty nifty, though.)
The last part of the comment belongs to 2007
Time Paradox
Is is bad that remember that movie.....fondly?
@Crackpot
Do not question the Boogeyman.
Where have you been the past year? New 360's don't have the "Red Ring" issue anymore. Since Oct 07. Does the PS3 have any games out yet? Yes? Oh, well I guess people should shut up about that too.
Uh, that's news to me. The last thing I heard was that Microsoft was actually being sued over that issue, and that was on October 17th of this year. Microsoft's claimed the new hardware would fix the RROD issue in the past, but nothing happened, so I'll believe that it's fixed now when I see it.
As for the actual story, Sony needs to shut the hell up already. I love my PS3, but it was garbage when it first came out. They just need to admit that.
They aren't going to come out point blank, they have to use that corporate poetry. Everyone does it.
Okay, I give up. I've scoured my article, but I can't find the secret sentence where I say this. Please find it in this article because I need to unlock the trophy!