PS3 port thread

[jorkany]

It IS pretty funny that some people don't seem to understand what the PS3 is a game console. I'm sure they are the same people who have a kitchen drawer full of bent butter knives from using them as screwdrivers.

[jorkany]

Indeed. And while I was doing DTP on an Amiga 2000 equipped with a fusion forty back in 1992, was there anything wrong that my neighboor had a 500 with no hard drive and used it almost exclusively for playing lemmings?

If you had been doing DTP on a Sega Genesis you might have a point. Try this little experiment, go to your local electronics big box store and ask people who appear interested in the PS3 if they plan to use it as a computer or a game console. Let us know what kind of answers you get.

[jorkany]

Is this so odd when Sony is marketing the PS3 as something more than a console? No wonder that people expect it to actually do the same tasks as a computer then.

A computer or a digital entertainment center? I have yet to see a single television ad, newspaper brochure, or store display advertising the PS3 as a computer replacement here in the U.S. Maybe things are different elsewhere in the world.

Sure, Sony has provisions to use the PS3 like a computer if you really, really want to. But nearly every major game console from the Intellivision to the Dreamcast has had some sort of computer expansion option, and none were very successful. Heck, the PS2 even had an official version of Linux, but you don't see a community of people using PS2s as Linux boxen. How is that any different than the PS3?

I'm sure it's also more than a coincidence that the people on these forums who most want to see the PS3 as a computer are also people who want to use OS4. I bet if affordable, reliable hardware had ever become available for OS4, none of those people would give the PS3 a second glance; they just see the PS3 as a last chance for OS4 because it has a PPC architecture. If a digital camera based on PPC came out, they'd be all over that as a "computer" too.