I’m not here to bash the PS3. Just that I cannot find even one game on the system that I want to play. It’s all the shooters and sports games, just like the Xbox 360 (another console that doesn’t seem to want to publish games for the non-twitch crowd).
Microsoft and Sony fight over the relatively small share of twitch gamers, while Nintendo makes games for the rest of us.
I’m a total Sony fan, but the very first game that, to me, is worth buying a PS3 for, is Rock Band, and if I am going to buy a console for just one game, I might as well buy the cheaper Xbox 360, or wait until 2008 when it comes out for the Wii.
But I just read (being behind the times) about how Sony encourages people to use their PS3 as a Linux box. I do a fair amount of parallel computing, and I was thinking of cheap ways to add more nodes to my network (currently I have three). Having access to several Cell processors could double or triple the power to solve complex problems.
The PS3 may not be much for games, but as a cheap supercomputer… yeah, that could work. And eventually I can play Rock Band on it, too :)
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