(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Millions enjoy the PlayStation 3 for the video games they play on it, but according to Sony it is wrong to describe the console as a game machine.

A more appropriate description, according to one Sony executive, is "entertainment media hub".

"We're trying to turn the PlayStation 3 into an entertainment media hub where you can not only play your games and get online with your Call of Duty community, but also find movies, find music, and bring that across," Sony Network Entertainment boss Shawn Layden told Eurogamer.

"People like to explore. Gamers are explorers. I worked with PlayStation for 14 years before I took on this position with Sony Network Entertainment. I started back in 1996. It was just that grey rectangle with the toaster lid on it. You threw the disc in and brought the waffle iron down, and that's it, you're good to go.

"Game machine is the wrong description these days. Console can mean so many things. It's a central hub if you will for all kinds of digital content."

Sony has attempted to broaden the traditional PlayStation audience in recent years with the addition of non-gaming applications to the PlayStation 3.

Cloud-based music subscription service Music Unlimited, which Layden runs, is just one example. You can rent and buy movies, view photos, edit video, watch music videos and watch telly through your PS3, too.

14.7 million PlayStation 3s have been sold throughout Europe. As of 25th January 2011, there were over 69 million registered PlayStation Network accounts worldwide.

Yeah for me it's a game machine. All I do is play games on it.

first of all: sony sold the "ps3" as a "computer entertainment system"
second of all, tl;dr[/color]

Another executive asshole tryin to feed us shitpile of marketing nonsense.
"Its not jus a console, its also an internet communications device"
Me: so you mean it has a browser?
Exec asshole: erm....well..yeah I guess
Me: eat a di*k asshole

But yeah, these consoles have come a long way from the Alex The Kid times on the Sega Master System (remember that console?)


Next thing you know, these punks will do a complete u turn and take away everything, jus like the OtherOS.

If its this central hub or whatever BS they want to call it then they should let us jailbreak it so we can get TRUE FULL use of the machine that can do so much

I was thinking about the same thing, but.
Yeah, all I really do on my MAIN PS3 is play games, I may get on Music Unlimited every once in a while, but besides that I mostly just play games.

this is nothing but a games system with a few freebies thrown in so that sony could win in the blu-ray race (remember there was a rival Hitachi or Toshiba version) The only reason Sony threw that in was so that they would win, or what would have been the bet, they would have just sold it as games console then tried to sell it as an OFW update and say "Look we can now play blu-ray discs" if this other version had taken off. There is a few more options to it but as said before Sony took away backward compatibility then linux whats next? I am surprised they haven't yet gone down the route of xbox and said lets make a small charge for online. I honestly believe they will but only with certain games and it will probably be a one off fee.

That's odd in some way yea I guess it's true, to make a console unique you gotta make it do unique things. An easy way to win that would be to let it run homebrew :p
Great information :y:

How is it NOT a game machine?

Mehh I still call it a game machine