Kaz Harai: PS3 Will Reach Full Potential… In 4 to 6 Years
- Scribbled on September 4th, 2007 by Jonah Falcon
- Filed in Industry News, Sony PlayStation 3, WTF
Kaz Harai stated in Official PlayStation Magazine a peculiar and disturbing line:
The power that we’ve packed into PS3 will really manifest itself in software titles that come up four, five or six years down the line.
Sony might have had that much time with the PlayStation 2 because for a long while, it lived on the fact it was a cheap DVD player. However, the PlayStation 3 is not cheap, and the Blu-Ray isn’t a system selling feature that people are going to rush out and get, since the leap from DVD to hi-def DVD is nowhere near the leap from Betamax VHS to DVD.
Does the PlayStation 3 have the legs to still matter in 4-6 years in its current state? How much will it cost by then? $199?
(Thanks, PS3 Fanboy.)
September 4th, 2007 at 7:07 pm
I think that timeframe is true of all consoles, developers get better and better at developing and the games show it. Look at half like 2 for the Xbox 180, that game looked awesome and really pushed that hardware. The Xbox could have lived on a lot longer if MS wasn’t so eager to get a head start with the 360.
The ps2 initially sold as a cheap dvd player, but stand alone players were steadily dropping in price. I don’t know exactly what accounts for its long life; there are still many games coming out for it.
September 30th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
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