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Jason over at Flicker Gaming has posted a starling admission: he wants his game consoles to do more than just play games. But don't label Jason as a future PS3 owner just yet:

The problem is that all the major hardware (and software, I guess) manufacturers are pretty big on screwing the customers in favor of being proprietary. I'm a big fan of streamlining things, and if you're going to have media-center style options built in to your TV setup, it would obviously be great to have the process as simplified as possible...but I don't think that consoles are the way to do that.

Frankly, you can build a DVR-capable computer for less than the price of a PS3. It'll do DVR, it'll play games, and it's completely upgradeable and you can install basically anything you want on it.

For me, consoles are purchased solely for their ability to play games... but everything else is a nice perk. Not a perk I'm willing to pay $500 or $600 dollars for. What about you guys? Why not jump into the comments and let us know what you think. Florian Eckhardt

More Than Games? Not Possible! [Flicker Gaming]