Yes, I can actually hear the gamers out there flinching at the title of the article below. Nevertheless, it appears to be true. Can Sony save their gaming business? They will have to work pretty hard at it if they plan to…

I, for one, was ecstatic when I heard the news. Sony Computer Entertainment president Phil Harrison really made my day. I mean, I just about erupted with joy when I heard that I wasn’t going to need to buy a Windows Vista PC next year, thanks to Sony’s PlayStation 3. I could barely contain myself long enough to type this short sentence. Honestly, I hadn’t been that happy since I discovered that you could fry a Twinkie.

In case you missed it, Harrison recently spoke with German newspaper Der Spiegel, and made a rather bold statement: “The PlayStation 3 is a computer. We do not need the PC.” The context of that statement is this: Harrison and Sony are positioning the PS3 as more than just a game console - it will be a single device that will allow users to watch movies, play music, browse the Web and perform other PC functions. As a result, when Harrison was asked about Microsoft’s convergence strategy with Xbox 360 and the PC, he suggested that PS3 could replace the PC…. Source: Twitch Guru

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