Not ripping on it, but I managed to catch a look at the PS3 kiosk at a local retailer today.
It would be best to market this as an affordable(?) blu-ray player that just happens to play games... or tack-on a keyboard and launch it as a closed platform PC (Mac is popular, so it could work to have another competitor in the PC arena)
Visually, the games aren't much more impressive than XBox 360 / final generation PS-2 when they're in motion. The titles seemed marginally better than what XBox currently has.
They probably should have dropped blu-ray support out of the box, and came out at the 360's price point. With their launch price, it will be interesting to see if they can succeed where 3DO failed. We (in the U.S.) just got out of the recession. It's a little too early for a lot of people to buy expensive toys that require expensive software.
It would be best to market this as an affordable(?) blu-ray player that just happens to play games... or tack-on a keyboard and launch it as a closed platform PC (Mac is popular, so it could work to have another competitor in the PC arena)
Visually, the games aren't much more impressive than XBox 360 / final generation PS-2 when they're in motion. The titles seemed marginally better than what XBox currently has.
They probably should have dropped blu-ray support out of the box, and came out at the 360's price point. With their launch price, it will be interesting to see if they can succeed where 3DO failed. We (in the U.S.) just got out of the recession. It's a little too early for a lot of people to buy expensive toys that require expensive software.