Harrison: Your PC is history

PCs are about to have their peripherals packed up in suitcases, hastily handed crumpled fivers, a packet of cola cubes and unceremoniously booted out of the front door as they're usurped by Sony's PlayStation 3 in the home.

Well, that's the image Sony's Phil Harrison has conjured up anyway, opining that, due to the gubbins in the next-gen console, the home PC is history.

Harrison dropped this bombshell in an interview with German publication Der Spiegel, claiming that it's the non-videogaming functions and the available processing power afforded by the operating system - Linux-based - resident on the PS3's hard drive that'll make PCs redundant.

We believe that the PS3 will be the place where our users play games, watch films, browse the Web, and use other [home] computer functions," Harrison explained. "The PlayStation 3 is a computer. We do not need the PC."

Obviously this is no bearing at all on Microsoft's plans for Windows Vista...

Via CVG

Deja vu?

they said that about the ps2 but the gamecube was more powerful haha silly sony

we've got newer and better equipment already out that can beat the PS3 into the ground without a problem? what are they babbling about?

the RSX is no more than a baseline 7800... We've got 7900 GTX's with 512mb of video ram. on top of that the new DDR2 ram is on the way or out (cant remember) with AMD's 64 X2 5000+! match that up with SLI... and what is the ps3 to that?

your average 400 dollar home pc... yea sure... it beats that no problem... but do you really want your brother or sister taking over both your PS3 AND TV to finish her homework!? I think not... bad comment on sony's part...