Posted By: Darksaviour69
We know that the online community/media, have add a good dig at Sony in the last few months (with good reason). But the main stream media have still been loving the PS3... until now!
The New York Times have posted a review of the PS3 which, generally states the PS3 is a big let down...
Howard Stringer, you have a problem. Your company’s new video game system just isn’t that great.
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A view of the screen of “Resistance: Fall of Man,” one of the games for the new Sony PlayStation3.
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The controller of Sony PlayStation 3 looks like earlier ones.
Ever since Mr. Stringer took the helm last year at Sony, the struggling if still formidable electronics giant, the world has been hearing about how the coming PlayStation 3 would save the company, or at least revitalize it. Even after Microsoft took the lead in the video-game wars a year ago with its innovative and powerful Xbox 360, Sony blithely insisted that the PS3 would leapfrog all competition to deliver an unsurpassed level of fun.
Put bluntly, Sony has failed to deliver on that promise.
Measured in megaflops, gigabytes and other technical benchmarks, the PlayStation 3 is certainly the world’s most powerful game console. It falls far short, however, of providing the world’s most engaging overall entertainment experience. There is a big difference, and Sony seems to have confused one for the other....
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