Quote:
Originally posted by bobcat
The PSX looks real snazzy, but putting so many things into one device is totally not feasible IMO. Going back to the printer/scanner/photocopier story..............
|
bobcat you JUST said what I wanted to hear!
I don't hate it because it's branded with the word "SONY", I ahve a SONY TV, I hjave a SONY VCR, I have a PANASONIC DVD Writer, I have a NINTENDO Gamecube adn an ALIENWARE PC, as well as twqo GATEWAY PCs, my brohers APPLE, and a BARGIN BASEMENT 486 plus a comp I'm gpnna build. I have an AIWA STEROE a SONY Steroea BOSE Wave Radio etc, etc.
I don't avoid a product because "Sony Sux", I'll avoid the PSX because there's too much that can go wrong in it for a SImple game system, and the fact that I have a DVD Writer, a Game Console, access to a PS2, and I don't WANT a crazy spin on throwing a Console into a PVR/DVD Player.
I don't hate Pioneer DVD-ROM drives because "Pioneer Sux" IO hate them ebcause I've had four of them break on me, and I don't hate the PS2, ifI culd afford oen I'd probably buy it and not just use my rbothers, I hate the Xbox not because it's made by Microsoft biut because it's a Sh*tty system in my opinion. I hate WIndowsbecause it's a bad OS< I like MS WORD though, and that's because it's easy to use. I like High-Speed AOL, I don't like Compuserve though because it's a dumbed down version of AOL.
When I hate somethng I give a reason, I hate the PSX because it's the Mini-System Stereo/Printer/Scanner/Copier problem coming to game consoles. I like a Stereo Mini-System to save space and money but in the long run, I almost wish I had a "Component Stereo" again, and I'll NEVER buy another "Disposabl PC" nor will I ever owna TV with a Built-In VCR. I hate them too for the same reason.
This is why I'm glad Nintendo didnt put a DVD Player in the 'Cube, and why I wouldn' put a ecorer in until the pirce drops, in 2006 Sony's PSX might be a good idea; right now, it's not.
Case and point: I use my GameCube to play games, and my DVD Writer to Watch/Burn DDs, I don't want to play Game s on my DVD Writer and I don't want to Burn DVDs on my Cube, my brother uses the PS2 fora DVD Player because i's all he can fit in his room, but honestly, why not produce units like that in limited quanites only then? Basuically a "Dorm Room Edition" that's designed ot save space.
The Panasonic Qube never made it to the USA because most Americans have DVD Players, I have a buddy with a DVD Player AND a PS2, and even he uses the player over the PS2, it's nice if you travel, but at that point I'd want a laptop to take with me, ro a portable DVD player.
My point is to mkae a game console, not a machine that controls your house, if the next set fo consoles has a system that wipes your @$$ after yout ake a cr@p, I won't buy it, I don't need a machine that makes toast wakes me and tells me whent og o to work, I can use an Alram clock a toaster and common sense for that.
I go through VCRs about ever 6 or 7 years, after that I have to replace them, If I had a PS2 burning DVDs I'd have to replace it every six or seven years and new consoles come out every 5 years or so, eventually I'd "Skip" a next-gen console due ot DVD Burner prices.
I'm also contet to keep my GAME SYSTEM as just that, a GAME SYSTEM, and while I'd eb content to surt the 'net from my GCN I'm also fine without that feature, if we could survive wtih the one-button Atari we can survive without DVD Writers in our console, the PSX looks like the next "Nuon". Remebr the Nuon? Thought not, it was a DVD Playe that could pla games as well, I think it tanked faster than the Virtual Boy, if you remebr that disaster congradualtions, it was Nintendos first failure, just like the first Sony Handheld and the Sega Master System, and the Atari 7800, you remerb the 7800, don't you? Don't you?
My point is this, the PSX is overloaded with CRAP, nothin useful to the average consumer and the people who would want ths could easily just pay SOny to do a "Special" system for them ebcause you'dhave to be kidna rich to afford this type fo game console with a DVD Writer.
Now by 2005/2006 I think the idea may be feisable, inf act I'd say "Go For it" but don't make it so that the focus is burning DFVDs, make the Focuys Playing Games and if evey Next-Gwen console burns DVDs and costs the same price I'll be happy, but it's when one cost more than thew rest that I get peeved, the Xbox was this console war's overpriced unit, last time it was the PSX, before that it was the Genesis and before that the NES.
But rthe NES prevailed, th PSX prevailed, tthe others didn't however.
Now if everyone is charhing $250-$300 fora console than I'm ok with this, but if SOny is gonna have an overpriced POS, screw them, if this is a Sub-console than fine but if this is the "next" PS2 screw it I wouldn't buy it.