Sony have taken the dubious lead of being the first next-gen console maker to drop one of the features from their console. Ken Kutaragi has said in a new interview that the router functionality of the Playstation 3 has been dropped because it would have been too expensive to manufacture:... Sony now expects that users will continue to use their existing router hardware, which is becoming more commonplace in households with broadband internet connections.
Whether that means the bank of network ports on the back of the box has actually been reduced to a single port is not clear, however, as the company has previously hinted that it has other plans in mind for the multiple network ports.
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