Jumping up and down and screaming for Attention

It's been a while since I've talked seriously about Playstation.  Because in seriousness, they're a joke.

The Playstation Department have made some silly decisions in their long history.  And they continue to surprise me.  Because now they have the Playstation Super Slim.  And my first question was: Can it play my Playstation 2 Games.

The Answer: No.  So I lost interest until I realised that it was about the fifth Iteration of the Console, and that's disregarding the differences in Hard Drive.  And it made me wonder why.

Since the beginning, they have been taking away and taking away, giving little back to the device that started at a ridiculous four digit starting price and had everything for a gaming console and a Multimedia system.  Anyone who has an original release console has the model at it's prime, at the cost of it's tubbiness.

The only thing that any owner of the model needs to do is up the memory.  Which you can do by replacing it with a Laptop Hard Drive which will set you back about $100-150 on Ebay.

But now you can get yourself a PS3 Super Slim that doesn't play your old PS2 games, which are still in stock because its predecessor is still selling, and It doesn't allow you to plug in your camera memory cards, unless you get a USB device which will set you back about $20.

Consoles are meant to be designed for about 10 years worth of play.  There's criticism on that, as certain developers think that consoles designed like that are holding back creativity and implementing the full visual power of games.  That's a fair enough argument since computers are exponentially growing in power.  Heck, my computer is 3 years old and it may have trouble playing most high demand games these days, and for good reason: It's practically outdated.

Consoles don't change at all in those years of development.  They use the same technology developed when they were released.  And whether developers reach the full potential of the consoles capabilities, I don't know, but if they haven't it does beg the question of "Why not?"

But that's a different subject, though if I continue on I'll be beating a dead horse that has been dragged through mud and nettles and declined from the glue factory.

The fact is that console design should be straight forward.  Playstation did take a huge leap of faith with the PS3 by making it a multimedia device, not a gaming platform like Xbox did, who have been tacking on special features without a problem over the years while keeping everything else they could want on there.

Playstation won't follow old recipes, but are "happy to rectify that with this updated game if you pay another $15 a pop for these $80 titles you bought in the hay day".

I hope Xbox continue to improve on their old recipe, because it's doing them well and I would be more than happy to continue supporting them as such.

But with console design comes with sensible investment into development and research.  And frankly, there are better places to put money into than designing a smaller console.