Yesterday on Sarcasticgamer.com, the esteemed Doc prepared a thoughtful analysis of a number of recent milestones achieved by the PS3 that were both good and bad for Sony’s console. Today, as Editor, I have chosen to retract said article.
This editorial decision was made due to the real reason why Folding@home was such a success and why it really isn’t a milestone for the PS3, but instead is a rather sad fact for the failing console.
Find out why we are retracting Doc’s article after the jump.
The reason why folding at home is such a success is that people don’t play their PS3. It just sits there folding… whatever its folding… not playing games. Not playing blu-ray, or whatever they’re calling them nowadays and certainly not playing Motorstorm for the fifteen thousandth time.
The GAMING console is being honored in the Guiness Book of World Records for sitting idle. Nice, Sony.
*golf clap*
The PS3 sucks is in a period of stagnant growth and this news is not good for the console. The Milestone Article is retracted.
Doc’s PS3 love be damned.
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8 responses so far ↓
1 Doc // Nov 6, 2007 at 6:48 am
oh yeah? well the new commercials are pretty bad ass.
eat it Lono
2 Yousty // Nov 6, 2007 at 7:48 am
I agree that the new PS3 commercials are pretty bad ass, but I personally love the sucker punch 360 took on PS3 with their new commercials: “Play the games that everyone wants to play.”
Ouch
3 Isses // Nov 6, 2007 at 8:44 am
do I understand this correctly?
does the PS3 have the world most powerful screen saver?
4 Lono // Nov 6, 2007 at 9:37 am
Yes Isses. That is correct.
5 Sean "rothbart" Workman // Nov 6, 2007 at 11:45 am
I’ll tell you why you’re wrong Lono. I play my PS3 MORE than I play my 360 and MORE than I play my Wii. I’d argue I play my PS3 more than those two COMBINED. But you know what? Unlike my Wii and 360, when I’m done gaming I generally don’t turn my PS3 off, I let it idle into Folding@home. What that means is that shy of the 10-15 minutes it takes from when I’m done gaming to idle in Folding@home, if I’m not gaming, it’s Folding. And frankly, I’m “not gaming” a hell of a lot more than I’m “gaming”, period. Regardless of the system I’m playing. I can even leave my PS3 idling in Remote Play mode waiting for me to connect to media remotely with my PSP and it’ll sit Folding until I need it to stream me some media.
So to mistakenly think that because the PS3 is responsible for such an increase in Folding@home performance that it’s only due to people intentionally turning on their PS3s and “not gaming” by manually running Folding@home is just silly, do YOU play your 360 more than 12 hours a day? I’m quite positive the answer is no. Therefore your 360 is doing NOTHING the majority of the time while my PS3 (and others just like me) spend that idle time helping researchers in their quest for curing diseases.
I know you’re never quick to pass an opportunity to slam the PS3, but this retraction (to an article I kept waiting on the punchline from) smacks of the sensationalism I loathe in today’s gaming media. OMG! The PS3 did something AWESOME!…. Psych! It sucks! *giggle, snicker, snort*
Lono, don’t look now but your “bias” is showing… and I halfway wondering if the original post and this retraction were planned as a pair from the start. There are plenty of better ways to jab at the PS3, this just seems like a desperate grasp to make anything look like a negative. BTW, where have the “My 360 is dead” stories gone? Because, you know, they’re _still_ breaking… *sigh*
6 Lono // Nov 6, 2007 at 6:50 pm
rothbart, why don’t you tell me how you really feel.
I mean, are you angry with me? I mean, there’s an inherent shame that comes with owning a PS3, but, don’t you think you’re taking it a little to the extreme?
7 Kanbei // Nov 7, 2007 at 7:01 pm
I have to agree with rothbart lono.
I myself am a 360 fan/wii fan, however I have ONE freind that has a PS3.
the game we play on it the most is sadly Soulcalibur 3, but with some key titles along the way (MGS4, Socom Online). the Thing gets played, and frankly unlike my 360 and Wii it does SOMETHING that the others dont.
Folding.
Hell lono, I would like to see your 360 fold somthing Can it, Will it?
while that remains to be seen one thing is true as of right now.
Lono, your 360 can’t fold protiens (if it did it would RRoD on you, admit it) While Rothbarts and my freinds PS3’s CAN, all the time getting owned by me in SC3.
Hope the spelling comes out right.
8 Lono // Nov 7, 2007 at 8:39 pm
Wow… Kanbei, you’ve sold me. I’ve got to get a PS3 to …
Fold. wow.
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