Sony would probably have had a real hit product on their hands if they had removed the distracting game-console portion of this device and just sold it as an advanced networked STB with blu-ray. Add a proper IR remote and they might really have had something. But the game machine and non-standard remote (can't use Harmony, etc) is off-putting to many.
Then they could have separately sold a true game machine as the PS3 and, like, had games for it. And cheaper without blu-ray.
Kevin: With the amount of gaming graphics and sound, DVD isn't enough anymore, and it's a great roadmap to have blu-ray in the gaming realm for Sony.
But I would agree that Sony has a mixed selling market for it's unit. It is sickening how powerful this is... if only we could get rid of the hypervisor... HTPC would be dead to me.
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Kevin Murphy @ Oct 11th 2007 11:19AM
Sony would probably have had a real hit product on their hands if they had removed the distracting game-console portion of this device and just sold it as an advanced networked STB with blu-ray. Add a proper IR remote and they might really have had something. But the game machine and non-standard remote (can't use Harmony, etc) is off-putting to many.
Then they could have separately sold a true game machine as the PS3 and, like, had games for it. And cheaper without blu-ray.
domerdel @ Oct 11th 2007 12:17PM
Kevin: With the amount of gaming graphics and sound, DVD isn't enough anymore, and it's a great roadmap to have blu-ray in the gaming realm for Sony.
But I would agree that Sony has a mixed selling market for it's unit. It is sickening how powerful this is... if only we could get rid of the hypervisor... HTPC would be dead to me.