This might happen to the PS3/Sony. With the problems in manufacturing blu-ray players and losing close to a half billion dollars on the laptop battery recall Sony is really banking on the success of the Blu-ray format and the PS3.

On the other hand...Sony has a very strong dedicated consumer base to draw from those that liked the PS2 while Colecovision didn't have such a success prior to their launch. The large PS2 consumer base could save them.

The adam was awesome! bastards! Mostly dragons lair and the constant *CLICK* wiiiiiiiiRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
whenever you died and it had to start over from the beginning.

ahhhh good times.

Disregard the dimension differences, what's with the subtle references to "advertising games...doctored", "$600 price tag", "higher capacity...drives" in your comparison? What are you trying to say?

But Coleco couldn't play Killzone 2!

If only the PS3 could make Sony file for bankruptcy, and take their DRM rootkits with them.

The colecovision was AWESOME in its day!
I had one the day of release...And it was released on the day it was promised!
Without a slap in the face to European gamers, Digital right management, a price to choke a large horse, And a pack in game from nintendo.WAY ahead of their time.

The add-on was $400. The stand-alone system was $600. I used to have one, unfortunately.

i still have lots of great memories playing colecovision with my wife in the basement before we had our family... we played venture, duck hunt, all the really dumb ones. still, it was cool back then.

I for wouldn't want to see sony leave us forever... i have many, many fond memories of wonderful sony gear from the past...

and don't think for one moment that the music division of sony is actually under the control of the main part of sony... all you have to d is look at what the other members of the big 5 are doing...

rootkits from sony only exist because they were stupid enough to buy a music company... they need to follow the lead of phillips and sell off that turkey as soon as possible.

When the PS3 comes out at 600 bucks that's still going to be cheaper then a Coleco back in the day after you account for inflation. The only thing that doesn't make sense is the size of the thing. While everything else is getting smaller somehow the PS3 finds it self growing in size, looks like this is the age of viagra.

Yet another anti-Sony article by Gizmodo? I can't believe it.

I'm not sure what the point of this article was. It compares the size of the PS3 to an old obscure console from the '80s. The only possible reason behind this would be as an anti PS3 article, and frankly should be beneath sites like this. In reality the Xbox 360 isn't much smaller than the PS3, and yet you see no articles comparing it to the Adam.

The Adam wasn't really a "hardware expansion"... it was a completely different device that had a ColecoVision built into it. It wasn't the game console with a computer attachment... more like a computer with a game slot added in. In that case, you'd be better off comparing an Adam to a TI-99/4A.

I had an Adam and I loved it, but we did get it on sale when they had already started selling them off at bargain basement prices. Ahh, the memories.

And as far as Sony is concerned. I really wonder if the Beatles back catalog is cursed. Michael Jackson bought half of it and look what happened to both him and Sony after they became owners of it. And now that Sony owns an even greater percentage (buying more of MJ's share) they are having even more problems. Things that make you go hmmm...

THAT'S AWESOME!!! I was just describing to my kids yesterday how awkward the Colecovision controllers were! That thing was massive, especially when you included the ADAM computer and its tape-drive system. Try playing the old Buck Rogers game on that thing, or ZAXXON. It took forever!!! Games on cassettes- hah!!!

I don't think the point of this is strictly anti-Sony. There have been a lot of comments about the size of the PS3, just like there were when the 360 was coming out. The editors chose to compare it to a fabulously silly game machine from way back when, which also happened to cost $600. Plus, I think they were just looking for an excuse to mention the ColecoVision. :) The 360 got trash talked when it came out too...so short our memories are.

I still remember the day my dad brought home a colecovision with a bucket load of games.

Aside from the wife and the children, that ranks up there as one of the happiest days of my life.

I had the Adam. Man, I thought I was the 1337 h4x0r until I realized that I would actualy need a modem before I could take over NORAD. But until then I could print in three different fonts (when I changed the daisy wheels) AND play The Smurfs all on one awsome machine.

A lot of similar ADAM experiences.

yeah, the ADAM was SO cool, I was in 7th grade. I was literally HEARTBROKEN when we went through 2 of them and both broke. Ended up getting a TI-99/4a. Wasn't anywhere NEAR as cool. I still get wistful....

Spent all my time making logon and pwd programs in BASIC so I could pretend I was in "Wargames" much like Phlavor lol

@UpIrons-

That's because it was sacralige when MJ bought the Beatles catalog! He deserved to be cursed for it!