David Braben: PS3 blurs the console-PC line

Tired of all the PS3 opinions you’ve been getting lately? Well don’t be. At least not yet, ‘cuz we have yet another one right now that shows some luvvin’ for the console, unlike PS3 party pooper Merrill Lynch, who insists that Sony will lose.

Fellas, meet David Braben, Elite creator who’s responsible for classics like Zarch and Virus. Yeah yeah, we know, he doesn’t look so good in the picture but he does have good stuff to say about the PS3.

Here’s what Braben had to say about Sony and those who knock the company down: “there’s a fashion to knock Sony and I think it’s a big mistake. The fact that they have succeeded very well twice, they’re one of the few companies to have gone outside core gamers. Don’t write them off.”

A statement like this is definitely a refreshing change from all the dissing ones we’ve been hearing lately, and Braben continues to opine on the PlayStation Network saying,

I think the important thing with PS3 is it could do very very well. It’s got the web browser and people are saying, ‘yeah big deal’ but it’s the philosophy behind it, the fact that you can go to any site…That shows a very different [approach]. It’s not a narrow gateway, highly controlled by one person. A game can drive you to a specific site for that game, with tons of stuff to download for it for example. I think that is very very positive.

Braben even sites Phil Harrison browsing through YouTube as an example of the PS3 not being restricted by a “narrow gateway” in its web-browsing features. This may lead to a different way with which we view the PS3’s pricing, making the PS3 reach out of the hardcore gaming circles. According to Braben, people may actually start to see the PS3 as less of an expensive game console but rather more as a cheap PC. Or maybe even a hybrid of the two.

Braben says, “When you put it together with the fact that it supports a keyboard and things like that, people may start to regard it more as a cheap PC than an expensive console. Or a new thing that’s somewhere in between.” He also thinks that people are knocking down and writing off Blu-Ray way too early when it’s “extremely exciting” and saying that he even wants one.

When Braben isn’t too busy talking up the PS3, he’s working on the upcoming political thriller The Outsider, for the said console. We’ll keep you posted for more.

Via CVG

Tired of all the PS3 opinions you’ve been getting lately? Well don’t be. At least not yet, ‘cuz we have yet another one right now that shows some luvvin’ for the console, unlike PS3 party pooper Merrill Lynch, who insists that Sony will lose.

Fellas, meet David Braben, Elite creator who’s responsible for classics like Zarch and Virus. Yeah yeah, we know, he doesn’t look so good in the picture but he does have good stuff to say about the PS3.

Here’s what Braben had to say about Sony and those who knock the company down: “there’s a fashion to knock Sony and I think it’s a big mistake. The fact that they have succeeded very well twice, they’re one of the few companies to have gone outside core gamers. Don’t write them off.”

A statement like this is definitely a refreshing change from all the dissing ones we’ve been hearing lately, and Braben continues to opine on the PlayStation Network saying,

I think the important thing with PS3 is it could do very very well. It’s got the web browser and people are saying, ‘yeah big deal’ but it’s the philosophy behind it, the fact that you can go to any site…That shows a very different [approach]. It’s not a narrow gateway, highly controlled by one person. A game can drive you to a specific site for that game, with tons of stuff to download for it for example. I think that is very very positive.

Braben even sites Phil Harrison browsing through YouTube as an example of the PS3 not being restricted by a “narrow gateway” in its web-browsing features. This may lead to a different way with which we view the PS3’s pricing, making the PS3 reach out of the hardcore gaming circles. According to Braben, people may actually start to see the PS3 as less of an expensive game console but rather more as a cheap PC. Or maybe even a hybrid of the two.

Braben says, “When you put it together with the fact that it supports a keyboard and things like that, people may start to regard it more as a cheap PC than an expensive console. Or a new thing that’s somewhere in between.” He also thinks that people are knocking down and writing off Blu-Ray way too early when it’s “extremely exciting” and saying that he even wants one.

When Braben isn’t too busy talking up the PS3, he’s working on the upcoming political thriller The Outsider, for the said console. We’ll keep you posted for more.

Via CVG