Sony is limiting the potential of the PS3 on purpose...

This has been driving me nuts for a while. Sony pushed the PS3 as a complete media entertainment system, not just a game system. In theory this makes perfect sense. It's basicly a computer that runs software. Hell, it's a halfway decient media center. I use mine daily to watch videos downloaded from the net. But this is where Sony has dropped the ball. Sony's new line of TV's and Blue-Ray players have this new Bravia Link ability. It's just a simple box that holds widgets to access stuff over the net.

Bravia Link Box

Now I have no problem with this, if I owned a compatible Sony TV I'd pick one up in a heartbeat. But I don't, I own a PS3. There is no reason Sony can't just make this an addon piece of software that you can buy off their market for $50 or wtvr. Hell, make it $100. I'm sure it would still sell. Their masterpiece of a media center device has been replaced by a little $200 box that sits behind your TV.

For the amount of money Sony wanted for the PS3 and all the hype they generated about it why don't they throw the owners a bone? Hell, they could open up the development and create a sort of app store. That would blow everything else out there away. If there were a good assortment of media apps out there then it could become the iPhone of media center devices. Doesn't look like Apple is doing anything in that direction for the AppleTV.

But alas, the PS3 is dead and Sony knows it. They lost hard core to the Xbox 360 and are now licking their wounds. I guess they are just going to let it die slowly instead of investing a little more money to make it the amazing product the promised us.

Is it that hard to have one box that can do everything? DVD, Blue-Ray, Media Server, Game Station, Internet Appliance and wtvr else you can think of?

So now we have what could be an amazing piece of hardware in our living rooms but Sony has decided to ignore us all just so they find a reason to make people pay thousands for their new TV's and boxes. Fuck you Sony!

Maybe Boxy's device can do what you would never allow yours to do.

And just so people don't cry, a similar thing can be said for the Xbox360. I just don't own one of those.