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8:15 AM on 01.08.2007, Ishaan

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#CES #Geek Essentials #PS3 #Sony

According to GamesIndustry.biz, Sony seems to have been honored with numerous awards at the Consumer Electronics Show this year. Not only was the SIXAXIS awarded by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Sony itself received the "Technology and Engineering Emmy Award" as SCEA CEO Jack Tretton stepped up with the familiar Sony ramblings we've all come to love and expect:

"The overwhelming consumer demand and critical acclaim for PS3 is testament of the platform's strength and the industry's desire for a true next-generation entertainment system," commented Jack Tretton, CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment America.
"The full potential of this powerful machine has yet to be realised. What you've seen so far is just a taste of what will be on the table for 2007 and years to come," he added.

In addition to this, Sony has also picked up the "CES Best of Innovations Award" for 2007, a "Sound and Vision's Editor's Choice Award" and "Digital Innovation Award" from the Digital Entertainment Group and a "20 Most Innovative Products Award" from PC World.

Not bad, guys. Not bad at all. Things are finally starting to look up. Hopefully, all this good publicity is a sign of good things to come. Full steam into mid '07!

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Mxyzptlk

Down the line, the stuff coming out on PS3 is going to be pretty amazing. Hopefully by then the price will have dropped drastically. :)

Sony flames starting in 3... 2... 1...

Corpse Explosion

I could care less for all those awards - they need to win some for the games available on their console, which won't happen for a while yet unfortunately.

UglyDuck

I gotta comment on this...

"overwhelming consumer demand and critical acclaim"

I apolagise, but i thought we were talking about the PS3 he- oh right i see, we are, we're just talking about it with the habitants of Mars. Who incidentally don't have internet connections.

Last i heard the PS3s were sitting in stores unsold because no-one wanted them. And as for critical acclaim, yeah okay, it's got a lot going for it, but how many times have we heard snipes at the web interface or the download scheme or the lack of good launch titles, add infinitium... I'm not being anti-Sony here, but let's get the facts straight. It's not been a good launch for Sony, and if they ever do get this kind of recognition, it won't be in the PS3's current state.

CaffeinePowered

Do these people even recent Sony news? Or do they base their awards on 'potential'

CaffeinePowered

*read recent, god its too early to be commenting

Snaileb

Guys I just recieved 100 e-mails in my inbox all from D'toid. Someone care to explain?

thisissami

hey caffeinpowered and ugly phil, it's true that sony had a very bad launch and only one and maybe two good titles, but these awards aren't about the software at all... they're all about the hardware, and I don't think anybody can really argue that the sony hardware isn't impressive.... i mean it's more powerful than almost every single commercial PC right now, and if the stanford project (the cancer/alzheimer thing) actually works out, the PS3 (combined of course) will reach the power of a supercomputer! but yeah, sony will begin rolling out the good titles starting this month actually (except for resistance of course... that was a good title!)... first up in 2007 is motorstorm! i think at the end of this year things will start looking up for sony in terms of profit, and next year will be when a slew of great games come out (MGS4, the final fantasies - assuming they don't pull an FFXII -, GT5, ratchet and clank PS3 (unless that comes out this year), etc.)

Ishaan

Erm ... sorry 'bout that Snaileb. Those would be our community e-mails. Throw Greybush a mail if you want to be taken off.

wardrox

A couple of questions; what awards did the other consoles get (To put this is perspective)? and couldn't the Wii be used in some form of "uber-massive-computer-me-bob" thing to much better effect? There _are_ more of them (maby?) and their architecture is more straightforward and easy to program for.

zaqu

i could see this happening next year but not this year

Cruds

In other news: Nobody has tested the durability of the lasers in HD-DVD and Blue-ray.

Also, another problem that may show up in the next 6 months to 1 year: nobody has any idea about the long term durability of these lasers. By design, they are being used at the limits of their performance. It's possible that we'll be seeing large failure rates for these devices (the next gen DVD players, and the PS3). :P

Snaileb

Yaaaay... it's like high school all over again...just with more e-mails and robots.

UglyDuck

Sami.
Good responce, i gotta admit i was expecting flame, so it's nice to have a level-headed individual who cares in responding with some patience and intellect.

My point was more that sony has won these awards on potential and promise alone. Yes it's a nice powerful piece of kit, but at what point is it inovative? It's a powerhouse, any rich kid can build a powerhouse, and it doesn't need some kind of divine intervention to make it so.

I will gladly say that the PS3 has potential, I'll be mindfull of the fact that we had this with the PS2 before it became the most successful current gen console, but not the PSP nor the PS3 has as of yet shown any signs of real innovation, which is mostly where it won awards.

Nukkus

innovation? how the F*CK is the ps3 "innovative"?

Rainbowblack

good/bad publicity my ass

the PS3 simply is not selling because it is FIVE HUNDRED AND NINTEYNINE U.S. DOLLARS

Chris Taran

Hah, innovation.

Ballistic90

"Innovative pricing!!!!!"

I know this sounds ignorant and Sony bashing, but those awards really don't seem to reflect reality. I wouldn't be surprised if Sony paid for them because a lot of those I can't see anyone in their right minds giving them to the PS3.

Chris Taran

I love how the Sixaxis is more innovative than the Wiimote. That's a damn riot.

nmaster64

I love how the Sixaxis is more innovative than a brick.

DualShock + GBA Tilt Cart - Rumble != Innovation

Serpentish

I still think you guys aren't really looking at it from a hardware perspective. I mean blu-ray alone is quite an innovation and I can see the ps3 winning a technology and engineering award for its inclusion of the cell processor although maybe toshiba and ibm should've been thrown some credit as well.

In the end these awards don't matter much anyways for us regular folk on the receiving end. The ps3 is still way overpriced for what it was meant to do, play games.

CaffeinePowered

@thisisami

Any gaming PC already blows away the PS3, its specs are good, and there will be good games, but the main problem is how many exclusives will they be able to keep?

I do love FF and Id probably pick up a PS3 at some point for XIII, but Im really worried about this garbage of having 2 or 3 versions of the same game. If FF comes out for the 360, Id rather buy that, Im kind of split as an FPS and RPG fan.

Ashdate

I have to agree with the "why the hecks did the 'Six-axis' win a prize for most innovative" camp. I mean, really, why the hecks did it?

Love Nintendo or not, pretty much every controller innovation ever was created by them. I guess however, that the lack of transperency is a problem with all rewards...

- Eddie

Milofo

And the award for the biggest briber for awards is.... SONY!! *applause*

I can understand PS3 getting awards because it is an impressive machine and there are games coming out on it that I definatly want to play(Level 5's White Knight). However, for the Sixaxis to get an award for anything is beyond me. All it is is a PS2 controller with a gyroscope on the inside where the rumble parts should be. Not to say PS2 controller is bad but Sixaxis getting awards should not happen.

UglyDuck

""I still think you guys aren't really looking at it from a hardware perspective. I mean blu-ray alone is quite an innovation""
But Blu-Ray wasn't developed as part of the PS3. It's a third party creation, the board of directors just includes people from Sony:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc_Association

So that's not even Sony's exclusive product, nor their award. As is my understanding anyway. If someone here knows better then please correct me, I'm just going on what i've read.

Ishaan

I'm not entirely sure of this, but this could have something to do with the fact that Nintendo isn't at CES.

some_dude

These awards all add up to jack crap and probably won't sell a single PS3. The hardware is impressive, but it falls into the same category as high end PC video cards, very high price to performance ratio. I'm the type of guy who really looks at "bang for the buck" numbers. I will usually buy the mid level graphics card because the bleeding edge stuff isn't worth twice the price if I can still get 60+ fps with the mid level board. The PS3 just isn't worth the price of admission, and it seems like many people agree. If the PS3 was $400, you wouldn't see them sitting on the shelves. I know Sony wanted to make a kick-ass machine, and they succeed, but they've priced themselves out of the race at this point.

If M$ plays it smart and releases the 360 v2.0 with a 120GB HDD at $400, and makes the current premium the new core sys, Sony will have a hard time making up ground at their current price point. Sony can't afford a price drop, but the may be put in a position that they have to drop their price early just to stay in the race.

cbebop007

Hahahahaha! This post is so funny in the future!

sony sux lolrz

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