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Posted by Derek Janssen on 06/08/07 20:29
Doug Jacobs wrote:
> In alt.games.video.sony-playstation2 asjbiotek@gmail.com wrote:
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>>Really? Must be news to all those PS3 owners who use it for just about
>>everything - music, games. movies, and even contributing processing
>>power for medical research (more than 250,000 PS3s provide free
>>computing power to the medical grid)
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> The only reason to buy a PS3 is for the games, of which there are precious
> few - not what I'd consider a good use of $600.
>
> Movies - I have separate hardware for that.
>
> Paralell computing project - it's pretty sad that this still gets touted
> as one of the best features of a GAME CONSOLE.
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> Give me games - good, exclusive games - and maybe we'll talk about how
> awesome the PS3 is. Right now, it's a $600 console that has maybe 2 decent
> exclusives, and is undergoing an identity crisis with regards to its online
> service.
Remember way, wayy back when the old monochrome-green Nintendo Gameboy
was falling behind the color handhelds?...
And all of a sudden, for some mysterious reason, you didn't see actual
*kids* playing it in the ads anymore, after they started pitching the
game to the demographic of yuppie grownups who didn't know any better?:
"A perfect gift for Father's Day!"
One wonders how their dignity ever recovered from that fatal blow. -_-
....I don't know why the "PS3's are cool because they're now being used
for RESEARCH!" as a selling point reminds me of those ads; it just does,
for some reason. :)
Derek Janssen
ejanss@comcast.net
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