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Ars Technica’s recent article quotes Sony executive Phil Harrison as saying “nobody will ever use 100 percent of its capability”, referring to the PlayStation 3, and that the current crop of games are using “less than half” of the capability.

My first reaction was “yeah, right!” I remember back in the 80′s when I got my Atari 800XL. The box was emblazoned with “64K RAM” in big letters and I said outloud “I will never use 64K of RAM!” referring to the code I was writing at the time that compiled into 2-3K at most. Today as a Notes developer I am routinely creating Notes applications that consume several megabytes. For anyone in the tech industry to naively claim that any new technology is virtually limitless is ludicrous.

My second reaction was that if Sony built such a kick ass box that no one will ever use the full capability of, then please build a basic version whose capability will be fully used but that can be priced more reasonably! $700-800 for a game system is ridiculous when I can get an Xbox 360 or Wii for half that.