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Debate of the Week - Why are so many gamers unaware of the PS3's features?

As pspsps.tv reported earlier this week, a poll by the NPD Group has shown some worrying results; that more gamers than they'd like to admit really aren't aware of all their consoles capabilities. It's even scary to say; only 40 per cent of PS3 owners polled were aware that the machine had a Blu-ray player, but what doesn't make any sense is the results also said that half of them had watched a Blu-ray movie on theirs. Erm, what on Earth were they thinking they were watching?! But it doesn't end there...

bym051d6113d ago

One reason is that there are a lot of them.

I'm not sure I know why people haven't heard of Blu-Ray or HD, but things like DLNA aren't exactly commonly used.

Ri0tSquad6112d ago

people that buy the ps3 buy it to play games and nothing else.

Fisher3396112d ago

Sony Ad's suck.

Instead of making an ad with a give, doing his thing in a sock while watching soccer, they should actually inform the consumerswith normal ads.

Even as a sony fan i can admit their ads blow.

360Sheep6112d ago

ohh you know, the media card reader, reading every single type of memory card, the wireless functionality, the high definition bluray player, the functionality with an external hard drive, the hdmi 1.3 for uncompressed sound, the DNLA support over a home network. You know the stuff that it has coming out of the box with no add ons.

Ps3Fanboy7776112d ago

Ps3 is a beast...

Its hard to use ALL of its features though. Sony should make an IPHONE like commerical just showing someone booting up linux, playing a game, show the photo album..

Sonys marketing is horrible. But then again its better then the constant nagging 360 commercials and advertisments i see all over..

D_U_I6112d ago

Oh yer!!! 3 red lights and .............

macalatus6112d ago

Hey ASSasyN 360, what happened to your "self-portrait" retard pic? I'm surprised you didn't put here in your post. Well, it ok...since we already knew that you're a retard to begin with, except that you confirmed it with your self-portrait pic dressed in a superman costume. Hey, you're a special kind of 'special handicap' though, since you can actually operate the self-timer of a camera and (gasp!), know how to use the Internet and this site. Just please don't tell us that you also drive a 'yellow bus', 'coz that would be incredibly scary!!

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xaphanze6112d ago

I believe the main reason is that Sony doesnt know how to advertise it.I mean,did u see those ads?

monoknacker6112d ago

Sony has not advertised the features of the PS3 that well, it only seems to be serious gamers who have the faintest clue what features are on the ps3.
I don't understand why sont doesn't do more Wii like adverts at the moment, showing off its functionality rather then the 'hey we're crazy' stuff.

BaMYouRDeaD6112d ago

I really doubt an evil baby doll advertisement on Haloween tells consumers ANYTHING about the PS3 and what it does. Those videos on www.playb3yond.com would work really well, if Sony could manage to get shortened versions on TV or have the whole thing play during the previews at movie theaters.

supnub56112d ago

why don't they include a video included in every ps3's hdd that shows how to use stuff, great idea isn't it.

btkadams6112d ago

sony needs to stop trying to market the ps3 with lame movie-ish ads. they need to have an ad that shows the ps3 in a spotlight, then a calming voice saying:

"The playstation 3, the world's cheapest blu-ray player, and worlds most powerful video game console. Watch movies and play games, all in glorious HD. Listen to your music collection streamed from your pc, or put it all on the 60gb harddrive along with all your photos and videos, through usb or through the various memory readers. This is living."

there sony, pay me a million dollars cuz my ad just made u billions.

supnub56112d ago

to the music that is streamed from your pc?

snakeak6112d ago

with a DLNA server like Nero or WMP 11. You never wondered what that "Search for Media Servers" option was?

ALIEN6112d ago

It's true, SONY has not advertised the features of the PS3 very well. I think that every person who buys a PS3, Should know that they are also buying a Blu-Ray player. They should ask or read the PS3 box.

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Microsoft once tried to nab LittleBigPlanet from Sony after a few drinks

It turns out that many moons ago, Microsoft once had its eye on the Sony published LittleBigPlanet series.

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XiNatsuDragnel2d ago

Microsoft had a good idea but fumbled it again.

Cacabunga20h ago(Edited 20h ago)

Project Spark idea was decent but they quickly gave up ..
LBP was wonderful

ApocalypseShadow1d 15h ago

Microsoft in a nutshell. Always tried to poach Sony employees, games, 3rd party games and devices like the depth camera that was turned into Kinect but was running on PS2 before Xbox 360. Wouldn't be surprised they wanted LBP. Just like they worked behind the scenes pushing the MLB to bring Sony's baseball game to Xbox instead of making their own.
https://www.playstationlife...

They didn't spend years trying to develop their own baseball game. They wanted Sony's game.

They're scum.

Zachmo18219h ago

Microsoft didn't force MLB on Xbox. MLB gave Sony 2 options either go multiplat or risk losing the license.

Rynxie9h ago

And why do you think MLB said that? I believe Ms approached MLB.

ApocalypseShadow9h ago(Edited 9h ago)

Totally ridiculous comment.

The only exclusivity Sony had was to their own creation of The Show. Microsoft could have paid the MLB for the license just like Sony did and made their own baseball game.

Microsoft instead, groomed MLB for years in trying to poach Sony's game and bring it to Xbox. They're worth 3 TRILLION dollars. You think that's not enough money to make their own baseball game? Don't be delusional.

Microsoft spun it like they always do and told the media that they had to trust Sony with their hardware. After they put Sony in that position of not having a choice. Either go multiplatform or stop making one of their successful games. That's a no win scenario.

And what did Microsoft do? They didn't try to sell the game to the Xbox community. They put it on game pass to hurt Sony. Pushing the idea of why buy games that are $70 when you can play them in their cheap service for $10. It was a dirty tactic.

You fell for the Kool aid drink Microsoft served you instead of spitting it out. Hope it tasted good because you were fooled by Phil and the gang.

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Hereandthere45m ago

Xbox executive Sara Bond has told Axios that Microsoft spent a number of years trying to get MLB The Show onto Xbox consoles. And when it finally succeeded in breaking off PlayStation’s long-held exclusivity, the company had to “trust” Sony with pre-release Xbox Series X/S consoles.

Bond revealed that MLB The Show “always came up” in conversations between Microsoft and the Major League Baseball organization. “We always said, ‘We love this game. It would be a huge opportunity to bring it to Xbox.'” she recalled. However, when Microsoft’s efforts materialized, it put the company in an awkward situation where it had to send in pre-release consoles to a rival company.

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Notellin6h ago

"Microsoft instead, groomed MLB for years in trying to poach Sony's game and bring it to Xbox."

Take a nap, conspiracies are rotting your brain.

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Hereandthere44m ago

Xbox executive Sara Bond has told Axios that Microsoft spent a number of years trying to get MLB The Show onto Xbox consoles. And when it finally succeeded in breaking off PlayStation’s long-held exclusivity, the company had to “trust” Sony with pre-release Xbox Series X/S consoles.

Hereandthere48m ago

They were too cheap/inept/lazy to develop their own mlb game, so they port begged for years and bribed the mlb to make the show multiplatform. Like i said many times, xbox brought nothing to the table their 24 years, ZERO.

OtterX22h ago

"However, Healey said Media Molecule wouldn't have felt right doing that, adding it would have been "morally corrupt"."

Major kudos to Media Molecule for being an upright studio with principles.

RNTody22h ago(Edited 22h ago)

Great, more stories like this please. Show the last of the zombies holding the line what we've been saying for years: Microsoft is anti competition, anti industry and has no interest in making games at all.

But hey, at least there's an Xbox Games Showcase to look forward to, right?

Inverno21h ago

Well considering SONY just killed the series, LBP would've been dead by now either way. Though MM probably wouldn't exist by now either, so I'm glad they stayed with SONY, hopefully they don't get shut down any time soon or ever honestly.

Inverno19h ago

They shut down the servers, that's millions of user created levels gone. That and dead are pretty much the same, it's also been years since 3 and they cancelled HUB soooo.

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fsfsxii6h ago

They shutdown the servers because no one was playing, no one in the community cared about the user created levels so why keep them up? Wtf you guys would never succeed in running a business.

Inverno4h ago

Yea dood no one was playing so they shut off the servers. Cause people with enough common sense can't just Google why they were actually shut of, right?

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