EGM: Out of all the things you just stated, only Blu-ray and free online are your real advantages. You can do all those other things on the Xbox 360...for $200 less.
JT: GOod point, but let me give you one differentiating factor: the PlayStation brand. What does PlayStation mean? PlayStation means you could have bought a PlayStation back in 1995, and it had software support and was selling tremendously well until 2005, and it'd still be selling today, but we stopped manufacturing the hardware. And then PlayStation 2 came out, and that sold 110 million units, and it's still the best-selling (console) seven holiday seasons later in 2007, and that had backwards compatibility with the original PlayStation.
  Let's say I went out and bought (a competing) system. How many of those machines lasted five years? None of them. How many of those machiens still have great software support? None of them. So I may be making an incremental investment if those other features I just talked aboutare not unique to PS3, it's a brand that has staying power and has proved itself. Until we let the consumers down, that's going to be a strategic advantage for us. Hopefully we never will.
When you start talking about buying a brandname...you've ran out of BS.
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