This is a classic example of a straw man argument. You put up an article with a completely baiting but pointless central argument just so you can tear it down. iLounge, an online publication I generally respect, posts an editorial entitled:
Can Sony Trump iTunes With New PlayStation Store?
It then goes on to highlite the new aspects of the improved Playstation store. Now, if you don’t have a PS3, that headline may lead you to wonder if sony has started their own music service or movie download store for Playstation owners.
Nope.
The Playstation store is an online store primarily to sell games, deliver game demos and some other content to Ps3 owners. The only way in which it even compares to iTunes is that it offers some movie trailers.
So does iLounge suggest that Sony might start offering music and movie downloads through the playstation store?
Nope.
So with absolutely no comparisons between two totally different services the article finishes with this gem of wisdom…
“Sheer customer base aside, there are a few other non-trivial ways in which Apple has Sony beat, though. The PlayStation Store offers no music, podcasts, or real video content—you get trailers for Blu-ray Discs and theatrical releases, but not movies to purchase or rent”
What planet are you people on. It’s not supposed to compete with iTunes. The only thing it has in common is that it’s an online store. By that logic iTunes is a miserable failure because it doesn’t offer downloads for the playstation and xbox.
I would expect something like this from random Joe’s mac blog, but not iLounge.
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Thomas,
The piece that was posted on iLounge appeared in our Backstage editors’ blog, which is an informal area where our editors can post thoughts on topics loosely related to the iPod/iTunes universe. It wasn’t an “editorial,” rather, it was just a collection of thoughts and observations, intended to highlight some of the pleasant enhancements Sony has made to its Store. However, as some iLounge readers might not be familiar with the last six months of Sony’s planning for the store, it looks like I really should have included one key thing in the entry:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118885177843416106.html
http://kotaku.com/363135/sonys-playstation-3-video-store-sounds-ready-to-go
Sony is about to add a TV and movie download service to the PlayStation Store, with the aim of making it a full-fledged Apple TV competitor (obviously, with more features).
Discussion of this and Sony’s other plans for the store has been circulating for quite some time now, but since other readers may not have heard those details, I’m going to update the piece to more fully explain them. Sorry that the entry didn’t make sense to you.
Jeremy
Thanks for taking the time to post a response on this otherwise obscure mac blog. As I said I have been a reader of iLounge for a long time and I am a big fan of your writing in general, so I hope my comments didn’t offend.
As I have been a ps3 owner since it came out, I too have been following the development of the Playstation Network and it’s potential, but as your post didn’t really elaborate on that it just seemed like you were comparing two completely different things. If you make that clear I wouldn’t have had a problem at all.
Anyway, like i said thanks for taking the time to respond, and I really do think iLounge is a great site in general.