Remember when Sony honcho Ken Kutaragi said the PS3 was a "super computer," and we all laughed at him and called his mammoth console a Victorian waffle iron? Or was it a panini maker. I forget!

Enter game creator David Braben, who when not hard at work on a PS3 title, like to talk about how great the machine is:

When you put it together with the fact that it supports a keyboard and things like that, people may start to regard it more as a cheap PC than an expensive console. Or a new thing that's somewhere in between.

David's so right. Do think of it as cheap PC, because it makes paying for it way less painful. Brian Ashcraft

The PS3 Is A Computer [QJ.Net]