Sony Sure of more Playstation domination

[acn010]

blue ray is the most advance video definition to the max, 5 times better than normal definition from a dvd.
i also heard that high defenition and blue ray will enchance video graphic boost on dvd's by a lot.
so for me, the ps3 is cheap, why cause i saw a high defDVD player around $1000 so yeah
i just can't wait for the ps3

[felonyr301]

sure the next gen dvds are hot but having it in a all in one never really goes well in terms of quality... example the dvd player in the ps2 is crap and surely the ps3 is going to have a slow problematic blue ray player.

[ryan_rocks29]

He may seem confident, but I still honestly think the Wii will do better than the PS3. Yes, it MAY have enormous specs compared to the other consoles, but you have to remember, gameplay is the most important thing and that is where the Wii succeeds. Do not say I am a Nintendo fanboy, as I own both a PS2 and PSP, but this is just my honest opinion and I think most of us know this is true.

[shadowprophet]

I used to frown on sony for there arrogance,
But if they can truely pull off a 10 year life span for this console im all for it , however I just cant picture a 10 year lifespan for this.

[mr_nick666]

Its High-Definition baby. No matter what state of the art setup you have now, you can't watch a DVD in High-Def. Also DVD's are encoded in 720x480 MAX resolution whereas true HD is 1080p resolution. Also DVD video uses compression to fit on the DVD. This applies to both audio & video.

So where Blu-Ray will shine is EXTREMELY enhanced bit-rates for audio & video. If you've ever watched a DVD in true DTS surround sound, you will be very impressed. Blu-Ray will take it a step fruther and offer DTS-HD audio. Blu-Ray holds 25GB single layer and 50GB double-layer. DVD's can only hold a MAX of 8.5GB on a double layer DVD.

You will however, need expensive home theater equipment to truly take advantage of all of this. You will need a DLP, LCD, Plasma, etc. HDTV with HDMI inputs, a Blu-Ray player (PS3), and a high end audio receiver capable of decoding all of the different enhanceed audio types like DTS, DTS-HD, etc. etc.

The standard resolution for High Def is 1366x768 but some go as high as 1920x1080 now! If youve ever seen High Def running on a HDTV it is sweeeeeeeeet! You need to look for a unit with VGA or DVI inputs (I got a 26" LCD TV from Argos for £399.99 which didnt say HD but IS! - Tested my mates XBOX360 with a DVI-VGA adaptor (free with my graphics card!) and it was pretty amazing)
Back on topic(!) Im saving myself for the PS3 and its better technology

[yamaneko]

well...

the price scare the people :X

[geise69]

I'm all for the ps3 and everything, but not right when it comes out. $599 is just way to much for me and why would I spend $499 on a system that has way way less than the $599 version. Also this price really is going to hurt them. It really is. It's not bad technically for what they are offering, but some people just aren't going to understand that. They will just end up going to the Wii or 360. I remember when the Sega Saturn came out. I was amazed by it, but it was $399 dollars at launch. The ps1 was cheaper when it came out by $100 dollars, plus EB at the time was doing "trade in any 10 games and get $100 bucks off" so i only payed $199 at launch and traded in some crap nintendo games. Sony has the more expensive machine this time and it's way more than any 399 price. Plus there's still probably %70 of the market that don't have HD tv's. Especially an HD tv than can truely do 1080p. I also don't have an HD tv yet and I'm not paying that much money to play "pretty" video games that play exactly like my ps1 and ps2 games (minus ones that use the cheap nintendo imitation sensor). I will buy a ps3 eventually but it will more likely be 2 years down the road. Also the 10 year life span is not going to happen. Technology is getting crazy now. It's not going to take long for even the mighty ps3 technology to be out of date. Even if it is Cell. Cell is in it's early stages and I'm sure it will get more stable than it is now.

[arapozo]

I have owned a PS1, i own now a PS2 and a PSP. But as i see it right now i wont buy a PS3 in the forseeable future, why? Because of the price and what you will benefit from it. Don't get me wrong you will "get" a lot when you buy a PS3 but will you "benefit" from it?
I dont have an HDTV and wont buy one for the next 3 years, can you really spend all that money so that things change by a 25% or 45% in resolution, does it look so bad right now? Do i really need HD to enjoy a movie or a game?
I ask myself all that and i come to the conclusion that having to spend thousands of dollars, it's just not worth it for me right now. I whatch DVD movies and they seem good to me. I have a small surround speaker system and i enjoy it as it is.
Of the three new consoles, Wii is the one i'm looking forward to buy, because in the end both 360 and PS3 is just the same with better graphics.
I've been a gamer for the last 18 years and i believe is the time to feel something diferent when you are playing games.
IMHO.

[shinysuitman]

the interview brought up a good point in that not everyone (in fact, not very much at all) have teh equipment necesary to fully experience this kind of entertainment. its all good and gravy to have a kick-@$$ system that can run so many pixels per screen or process so much data per nano second, but what good is being able to see nose hair on mario when you have to adjust the contrast enough to see whats going on (old TV's and such).

Nowadays, people usually have decent TV's that can run stuff like the PS2, NGC, or XBX, which even then, some of the stuff gets lost in the translation, but how many people actually own a humongoloid HD-TV that can make you smell the movie if you watch hard enough? maybe its just that i live in California in the central valley... the armpit of the state, but i have maybe one friend that has that kind of thing.

ohh well, let commercialism reign free and drive us all bankrupt

[PunishedOne]

The PS3 is going to fail, so will Blu-Ray.

Blu-Ray is going to fail because:

1. The average consumer doesn't care about technology, he/she cares about convenience. There is no convenience when it comes to Blu-Ray. It just holds more stuff. Compared side by side, the average consumer will see no visual difference between a Blu-Ray disc and a regular DVD one.

2. Blu-Ray looks best at 1080p. There are less than 5 TVs that have 1080p. Not only that, but they run around $1,500-$1,800. Add the price of the PS3, and you're running around $2k just for a TV and a game console, not including any accessories or games or even the actual thing you want to watch, a Blu-Ray movie!

3. DTS-HD. Yeah? So? We don't need that. Just like we didn't need 7.1. It came out anyway, and it failed. Dolby Digital is the superior audio decoder, and it has been. Unless DTS-HD hands you virtual reality goggles, it's going to fail too.

The HD era is being forced upon us, but the average consumer which (Sadly) drives the gaming industry, is too dumb to know the difference between a PC and a 360 when it comes to games, they'll just think the PC costs way too much.