"Father of Playstation" Ken Kutaragi has laid out the strategy Sony have for the Playstation 3 in a new interview, and it's much broader than just gaming. His first statement in the interview is that the Playstation 3 is "not a gaming machine", instead, Sony are angling the console as a media center for the home that will be able to provide powerful functions for many different forms of entertainment.
He gives a clear slap to the XBox 360, a much-touted aspect of which is its ability to serve as a media hub for the home, by saying that the X360 will have increased capabilities as an all-purpose computer, but the extra power won't change the basic type of entertainment it provides; the advantage the PS3 has in this area he says is the Cell Chip's ability to create "virtual world's" inside the console, an example of which is the Ducks technical demo shown at the E3.
One of the more interesting details he gives away in the interview is of an online storage area called Cell Storage, where PS3 users can upload their content to undergo an "aging process" and have the content's quality refined using the idle processes of the Cell chip.
For example a user could upload a standard definition video to their storage area, and it would be upgraded gradually to high-definition.
This sounds like a very clever and useful innovation for the PS3, and Kutaragi says it is something Sony definitely plan on launching.
Read more over on Gamespot
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