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[cyberheater]

Already... They must be really worried about the price. PS2.7 now .

The PlayStation 3 will no longer act as a home network router, according to Sony Computer Entertainment boss Ken Kutaragi, who has revealed that the functionality has been dropped because it would have been too expensive.

Speaking with Japanese publication Nikkei Electronics, Kutaragi said that the original specification for the PS3 would have allowed the system's three Gigabit Ethernet ports to be used as a home router.

However, this functionality has now been dropped since it would have made the console cost too much to manufacture, he admitted - and Sony now expects that users will continue to use their existing router hardware, which is becoming more commonplace in households with broadband internet connections.

Whether that means the bank of network ports on the back of the box has actually been reduced to a single port is not clear, however, as the company has previously hinted that it has other plans in mind for the multiple network ports.

The news that the system was intended for use as a router or hub was first revealed at E3, when Sony's Phil Harrison told GamesIndustry.biz that it can be a hub, rather than just being a terminal at the end of a network.

Also, we want to be able to have a Gigabit port for an IP camera, he revealed. So one of the ports is an in, and two of them are through. It can be a server as well as a terminal.

 

[gofreak]

IIRC, they said at E3 it was a switch, not a router. They may have privately planned for it to be a router, but I don't think they announced it as such.

I clearly recall Sony emphasising in the post-E3 interviews that it was a switch, not a router.

 

[ThongyDonk]

Ha ha

Looks above this post!! :lol :lol

 

[Ranger X]

http://www.ga-forum.com/showthread.php?t=54834

 

[Borys]

Paging sp0rsk...

"Chief, we need some cleanin' in'ere"

 

[Gattsu25]

it sounds as if you were anxiously awaiting this news :lol

 

[cyberheater]

Doh...

Feck. Please close.

Jeeze. You've got to wake up early in the morning to get anything new on this forum...

 

[sonycowboy]

Already... They must be really worried about the price. PS2.7 now .

Didn't feel like searching huh? Or even looking 3 or so posts down?

And, yeah, the removal of a potentially not announced feature, on the scale of router funcationality on the PS3 would be worth at least a .3 deduction. If they take away a few more things, we'll probably be left with something less than a PS2. :|

 

[ThongyDonk]

Jeeze. You've got to wake up early in the morning to get anything new on this forum...

Not really its 16:17 Here in the UK, and lots of stuff is new!!