PS3 To Stay Netflix Free

Like many of you, I still have a stack of games that I would like to play. Far Cry 2, Saints Row 2, Fallout 3, Prince of Persia, and even Persona 4 are sitting idle while my Xbox 360 spends time serving up movies and tv shows via Netflix. I've already burned through a season of Heroes, two and a half seasons of The Office, Ice Pirates, The Day the Earth Stood Still and Transmorphers. Granted, most of the time, I'm doing something else while I'm streaming a movie, but it doesn't change the fact that my 360 has been pushing as much video as games the last few days.

Sadly, the ability to stream your Netflix movies through your game console appears to be an Xbox 360 exclusive. Sony's John Kohler recently said the following:

We've concentrated most of our efforts on our download service, both rentals and downloads of movies and TV shows. Our efforts will continue to be there, because our customers want to own the content...

Yeah, it gets a little confusing in there with the whole "rentals and downloads of movies" and "our customers want to own the content," but I guess Sony feels like their infrastructure for delivering video is solid enough to compete without the aid of Netflix. Personally, I think it's kind of a bummer.  Considering how much time I've spent with Netflix on my 360, I have come to the conclusion that it is faaaaaantastic. On a positive note, maybe this means I will spend more time playing games on my PS3 than getting up to speed on this whole Battlestar Galactica thing...

Thanks to Gizmodo for the news.