Originally posted by: Muadib
What happened to Blue-ray or HDDVD support? I might have gotten it if it was included, but it looks like I'll be waiting for PS3. I bet I'm not alone.
What happened is, who cares? As I've thought for a while B-Ray and HDDVD are technologies that nobody needs/wants right now. Practically speaking they offer nothing over DVD. What are we going to do with a 20 gig disk or 30 gigs or whatever? Waste of time right now. DVD is much cheaper. You can't even rent a BR movie or anything.
I wouldn't be surprised if PS3 dropped it as well. It's really right now a useless technology, and will be for years to come. People are on the DVD bandwagon now. See how long cassettes and vhs and all that went. Blu-ray hasn't even begun, so if you see how long it took DVD to kick in properly you'll see that xbox is missing nothing by not incorporating blue laser into their next box.
This thing looks good but I've seen enough launch systems now to know that they invariably have a pathetic number of launch games...so it's best to wait _at least_ six months before buying one. Plus you can then save on some of the inevitable initial quality problems.
FWIW I question whether it's going to have that triple core setup. Sounds exhorbitantly expensive for anything coming out this year.
A recent article scoffed that the difference between PS2 and PS3 makes xbox360 look like its not even a real upgrade.
Heard it before. It touts nonsense like life-like gaming and all that sh*t. It's horse crap. It will be evolutionary, just as this thing is.
Might have been a small factor, but it was one never the less. I know at least 2 people who bought a PS2 because they felt they were killing two birds with one stone by getting a console and DVD Player combined.
I was one of them. It was a major factor for me.
The same thing will probably happen with the PS3 and Blue-Ray DVD players. You'll have the choice between just getting a ~$100-200 blue-ray player or spending another $100-200 and getting a PS3 as well. A lot of people could justify it that way.
They could, but they'd be wrong to. The reason is that when the PS2 came out you're right, a lot of people didn't have dvd players, but dvds were clearly here to stay and had been growing nicely. I remember the first store near me renting them fully two years prior to the PS2 coming out. Unlike laserdisc it was plainly evident that DVD was the next format. I'll be VERY surprised if we see any blue-ray or HD-dvd rentals up through the end of 2006, except in maybe a demo capacity; two-three discs at blockbuster just to pretend they have it. Nobody outside of tech circles cares about--or indeed has even heard of blue-ray/hddvd.
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