why are people asking for a port to PS3?

[nbarnes]

Hi eniac,

I'll tell you why (I am one of them).

If the Amiga is to THRIVE (rather than just linger on) it has to be available on a commonly available platform that has MASS APPEAL.

PS3 owners may get bored of playing games and want to DO SOMETHING with it. Do they really want to get to grips with the complexities of Linux? I don't think so (BTW, I'm a big Linux user at work so I know a bit about it).

Surely, AmigaOS on the PS3 would be FUN. Surely it would be powerful. It'd be an eye-opener for a whole new generation.

Amiga IS NOT going to gain popularity by only being available on obscure bits of expensive lashed together hardware from manufacturers that nobody has ever heard of. Why would anyone - except diehard Amigans - even consider spending hundreds of pounds/dollars/euros for a new Pc-like Amiga? Where's the incentive? It could well be an expensive error.

They MAY consider it if the OS is packed in the same way as a PS3 GAME (and sold in the same shops at a "game-like" price, just visualize it for a minute...). They THEN see what they can start doing with it and a new world opens up.

Truly, it's the only way.

Imagine, you buy a games console for £450 and then you get a powerful better-than-a-PC for £40. It'll take off, It will (honestly).
 
(I'll get off by soap box now).

[nbarnes]

Sales may not be as much as we'd hope...but...there would be sales (as opposed to now). This could also work for Sony. If they are not selling as many PS3's as they thought then maybe, just maybe, something like OS4 would certainly help.
There must be THOUSANDS of people like me who haven't used Amigas for YEARS who would DEFINITELY by a PS3 if they could run something with "Amiga" written on it!

Then you have the teenage kids with aspirations to write games on a PS3...if Sony have flagging sales "all" they have to do is open up the Hardware to OS4 (or 5?) and then you have a market for THOUSANDS of coders and potential top-notch game developers.

Sony could even run competitions where the most promising "home grown" games/utilities are developed into commercial products (although they could probably do this without Os4)

Sony's got nothing to lose, Hyperion and Amiga Inc have nothing to lose and everything to gain. There would even be a built-in upgrade path (the PS5!).

Whatever anybody says, this is a beautiful solution...IF it could be made to work. Failing this, what do we have left?

Where is the incentive for ANYONE (outside of headcase amigans and a few hobbyists) to spend serious money for a new PC with OS4 on it? It's too niche market (hence expensive and dead-end).

I'm 42.