Martin O’Donnell pointed out that Brier Dudley of The Seattle Times didn’t like The Sony PlayStation 3 as much as he would have if it had been less expensive. Dudley wrote:
Don’t get me wrong. The PS3 is an amazing machine. I’d love to have one sitting beneath my TV. But not for $500 or $600. That’s just too expensive for a game console, even one that incorporates a bleeding-edge Blu-ray disc player.
He goes on to point out that he doesn’t think that the PS3 will necessarily make a better downloaded movie player than either the XBox or Apple iTV, the forthcoming set-top box from Apple. Is he going out on a limb by making such a prediction about a product that’s only been seen in a Steve Jobs demo?