http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=2634
http://www.gamespot.com/news/61521 [...] lytech.com

LMAO. The size of Sony's Executives' heads are gargantuan.

That was funny, browse the web on the PS3, who the hell would do that?

Sony: Doing everything we can to be bankrupt by 2012!

Agreed. It's no secret that Sony's most profitable division is it's gaming division. They're taking an awful risk with all the PS3 missteps.

I hope they go down in flames. I'm so tired of Sony lately.

As much as I hate them I'd hate to see a market with just MS and Nintendo. They need a good kick in the ass.

Two angles to look at here:

"The PS3 will replace computers"

"The PS3 is a computer and nothing like old fasioned consoles"

Gee, what will Sony do with all those Vaios it has, I wonder?

I like my angle better. It's more misleading. ;-)

Put them in the trash, where they belong.

But Bestbuy and Circuit City already plenty of them.

The only thing that Sony makes that's worth a damn are their TV's. In my opinion.

Yeah really gotta love it. Its funny how every new console release was suppose to make PC gaming obsolete and it never happened. Now its suppose to replace Pc as a whole.
YAY

Why do they not just accept that a console is a console and NOT a PC. Otherwise it would be called a PC.

There's very few products I'd buy anymore that are Sony's. As a response on that article says, their products have kept the high price tags but lost the better quality they once had. Sure they have marketting BS to sound like their products are better, but they're the same stuff with maybe a connection or port others don't have.

If they think they're going to replace the PC they are smoking way too much crack. As others said, I highly doubt you'll be able to access the Linux installation without hacking it. Also what about all their other products. Digital cameras, camcorders, etc. Do any of those even have Linux drivers? So if people did get rid of their PCs, they wouldn't be able to sync up with all those devices.

The PS3 looks like a nice piece of machinery, but it'll be a games console, a high def movie player (assuming Blu-ray doesn't fail which I believe it will), and maybe a music player since people will store music on it. No ones going to use it to type word documents even if they could install Open Office (which I personally hate). Barely anyone is probably even going to use the web browser if it has one.

Hell their primary market is the Japanese. The Japanese like cool slick looking interfaces. Console fits the bill, but Linux is far from it.

Sony's problem with this generation is its trying to do too much. It seems to think people are going to bow down before them with cash in hand to have the privilege of buying their console. Just make a f*cking games console with good graphics and everything. While its nice we already have network routers, wireless routers/hubs, and PCs. We're not going to throw them all away because Sony says its console can do all those things too. I'd gladly trade the Blu-ray player, wired and wireless ethernet, and Linux "OS" for a $200 price reduction.

Sony has always been like this... they think their s*hit is better than everyone elses. It ain't.

Nearly every single of proprietary technology they've tried to push on consumers (MD, their rip off of MP3, etc) has failed.

And now PS3 is about to fail...

That's a bold prediction to make!

Total failure is unlikely, however they're really doing everything to shoot themselves in the foot this time around.

ATRAC and other proprietary formats/software/tech have all been godawful. It takes a big company like Microsoft to be able to pull off releasing a terrible format and still not have it fall flat on its @ss (WMA, anyone?)

Hmm...this is pretty stupid when you think about SOny's history...

On the other hand I think the xbox 360 is WAYYYYYY more suited to becoming a "PC" than the PS3 because the xbox (original) was going to be a DVR in early concept...and the 360 from day 1 was supposed to appeal to "everyone" because it is easy to add to your network/media center....

If i had to buy a "home PC console" it would be the 360 since thats basically what MS built and conceived (all software included!)

Definitely. One of the biggest reasons I'll probably get a 360 (eventually) is because it's great for playing back video across a network instead of having to build an HTPC. Granted you need MCE2005 or Vista but I have MCE2005 and eventually will get Vista (once they get all the bugs worked out of it).

Only downside is it can't record TV.

I like my angle better. It's more misleading. ;-)

Actually, wouldn't the end of your initial article quote kinda rule option #2 out : "We do not need the PC". It wouldn't surprise me one but of SONY management to think they can replace PCs.

I really don't like the company philosophy behind SONY and I can only wonder how good they would've been if they had not been so single minded in imposing their standards. Curiously the PS1 and PS2 were popular because they were not imposing these SONY beliefs of world superiority.

Stating that the PS3 will replace Home Entertainment PCs, XBMC Xbox's or any PC for that matter is utterly stupid coming from a company that just recently tried to push their spyware into our CDs....

So that means I can install Word on it and make powerpoint presentations and do CAD work and video editing and design websites and do all my code work in this replacement for the PC? Wow I never knew there was such an awesome device . . . sounds like a Mac. Zing.

That's really about it.

You know what...i bet by the end of its lifecycle you WILL be able to record TV (it has a record button on the 360 remote after all)

But if it doesnt you could always hack it...but then again you could just do that to a regular xbox...

MS has been thinking about integrateing consoles into the entire Media experience for over 6 years...i wonder when Sony all of a sudden thought PS3's are PC replacements...