I really can't stand it the fact that I know who Michael Pachter is.

I say this every time I see patcher's name show up. Man oh man, I wish I could get paid to sit on my ass and make shit up.

@bunnyrabbit2: there is keyboard support? Oh shit, nevermind then.

lol the picture has the word playstation in it... i think we can start a rumour!!

@ChaosTeaCup

I like to call it an errorbox, it tickles me that people keep buying them and they keep failing and people keep buying more. It's crazy.

I sure do say the same things, but the PS3 still has all the same features that blow the 360 (see, didn't call it an errorbox) out of the water. To be honest, until i read this post I thought the 360 had a browser!!! It's a bit of a given for a console in this day and age.

You see Sony don't need to add too much to the PS3, because it's already got it all. The odd extra here and there but no need for major extra features, unlike the 360 for which MS adds something little and make out like it's the next big thing (even though the PS3 has always done it, straight out of the box)

I would love to work for Sony's marketing team (i work in marketing as it is, in fact I should be working right now..) if they focused on the important things they would certainly see a bit more success with the PS3.

On paper it really does blow the 360 out of the water. The only thing the 360 has going for it is a bigger userbase, which is mainly down to it's cheapness, which leads to dev support, better multiplats, Activision CEO wankish comments etc.

Sony are failing at marketing the PS3, there sitting back allowing things like Facebook and fucking Twitter on the 360 to be "big news" when their console has been doing that since launch!

It's a shame for Sony...

1) Put WAY MORE money into developing a FAR BETTER console. - happens to be at the beginning of a credit crunch / recession.

2) Sell at a loss, not making enough money to buy those "available on PS3" tags on the end of multiplat adverts that MS love so much.

3) Suffer fewer sales than your cheap, unreliable, feature lacking competition.

4) Devs treat you like an "additional" console, port games which don't run as well. Survive due to awesome exclusives by 1st party devs, that just won't fit on a DVD or run on a 360.

It's pretty shit to suffer because your product is too good, albeit well priced, but too "prestige" for what a struggling market can afford.

They want to turn the 360 into a PC that happens to be in the living room?

A PS3 already is a PC that is in the living room, includes a BR player, and has an optional TV recorder! Let alone all the other features that 360 is lacking.

This should be your avatar sexualchoc

nsfw:

http://img44.imageshack.us/img44/3523/sexualchodick.jpg

Microsoft does one thing right with xbox360. It didn't turn it into a PC. Full browser support on Wii and PS3 may sound like a great deal, but it does not really work out that way.

If I can justify the design decision, integrated applications approach rather than a generic browser approach provide the following benefits:
1. Does not have to support the gazillion standards available on a browser market.
2. Does not have to worry about installing the latest version of flash player or other add-ons.
3. Integrated means you can expand the program beyond the single application (e.g. you can bring up the last.fm while you are playing a game and play it in the background, facebook can be directly accessed while you are waiting in the game lobby, etc.). I don't know how far Microsoft will extended, but integrated app can provide a lot of flexibilities.

Convergence of technologies appears to be inevitable. We will most likely have a one or two electronic boxes which will do everything. However, I don't like the approach b/c

1. Dedicated special purpose hardware works better than a single box solution.
2. You can do multiple things with them (e.g. read cheats on your laptop while you are playing games on your console, etc.)
3. When stuff break down, it's easy to fix or purchase rather than giving up my single wonder box for a few weeks.
4. I like keep things separate (e.g. dude I play PC games and work on PC in my den. My laptop goes with me around the house if necessary and I play games on console. I hate switch between monitors on my HDTV. I like to keep it simple, keep it to one channel and I use it for that purpose.)

If PS3 allows you to use Internet Browser in any game or cross functional apps in PS3, it would be awesome, but Sony did not make that decision when it created the interface. It created the interface for the wow factor. I do think xbox360 GUI is a lot more functional and universal.

It's is one of many reasons why I haven't purchased the PS3 yet.

Xbox 360 does not break down as often as everyone says. I bought three xbox360. First gen RROD after 4 years. I gave one elite box to my nephew and he is using it just fine. I have my own RE5 elite box and it seems to work fine. I have not crossed the mythical realm of RROD. This type of product lasting 4 years is acceptable to me since I purchased new graphic card every 6 months back in the old days spending 1000s. I just don't get the real sense of community with PS3. Xbox360, me and my coworkers are all wired together via xbox live on xbox and PC.

Clunky Sixaxis browser? Plug a mouse in?!

Any mouse too, not a "special" expensive MS mouse.

Hah, you all need to stop talking to sexual chocolate, he's either a joke account used to rile people up or he (or she) is someone who has let to leave the comfort of his room in the past 3 years and whose only contact to the outside word is defending a video game system more than their own company does. Either way it's a waste of time.

While I think that access to twitter and facebook are useless additions to most any gaming console (most people would just use their computers), the idea of "access to the internet" IS an interesting one.

When EPIC made UT3, they released it for the PS3 and gave us the ability to freely download cooked mods or mutators off the net because the PS3 had an "open" system. Through the PS3 web browser we could access web sites for content. When they brought UT3 to the Xbox, EPIC was unable to bring this freedom because of the closed system and XBOX owners of UT3 became reliant on specific content being packaged and made available to them as DLC updates.

... by having a more open system, it could in the long run, mean more than just access to social networking type sites... it could allow for developers to more directly integrate web content or web access into their games.

I've always liked that the PS3 can be more like PC games... with the ability to freely use mods and mutators (should the devs allow for this)... and maybe the Xbox system is gradually going to allow something of this nature as well.

I still don't understand why anyone would browse the internet on their console when they can use their computer instead.

lol, I use Facebook, Youtube and Twitter on the PS3 and they work fine, its actually really easy and is the browser homepage.
"It's more horrible than killing yourself. I'm fucking serious"
Far from it.

Touche, SexualChocorate, Touche. Nice. You got me.



Oh wait. Any mouse you say? What so I could unplug the mouse on my PC and use it to Browse the internet on the PS3??

What's the fucking point of that!?!

It's nice that you can do it though, so I concede.

last.fm charges for radio now.
FAIL.

That's funny.. Can't we already visit these sites with the PS3's browser?

It stinks of fanboy in here. It's ridiculous.

Why can't Microsoft just announce a f***ing web browser instead of wasting money on pointless deals?
PS3/PSP/Wii/PC have web browsers.
Why not the 360?
I don't get why people at E3 think this is so revolutionary for consoles when the PS3, PSP, Wii, and PC could already do these features and more from the very beginning.
It's unbelievable how people are eating this s*** up at E3.