thethingthatlurks said:
That's a really stupid thing to say. The current console generation is already very far behind the PC in terms of power, and waiting any more won't make it better.
Bringing up the PC in discussions of graphical power really isn't the clever argument it used to be, because despite the ever increasing computing and graphics power available, there still aren't any games out that look better than Crysis, and most new PC games don't even try to match it. And Crysis is two years old.
And the PC's most games also tend to be those with the lowest power requirements like World of Warcraft and The Sims (and Starcraft 2 is deliberately pitching low).
The PC might be monumentally more powerful than consoles, but there's no market for exploiting that power, there's no market even for fully exploiting the power that the PC had
two years ago.
soapyshooter said:
Sony just doesn't make PS3s. They also make pretty much any electronic you can think of (TVs, laptops, video cameras, digital camers, etc.) If they really wanted they could use the money from other ventures to make a console. Only the PS3 lost them money up until two months ago, everything else they makes turns a big profit.
Not quite. I'll be able to get the financials later (am at work, and copy of Adobe Reader is too old here), but Sony's profits have been pretty modest, especially because the current economic climate makes expensive consumer electronics (and Sony's consumer electronics
are generally more expensive than other brands for dubious benefit) an unattractive buying proposition.
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