Dismal PS3 Launch Forces Sony to Discard Blu Ray

[steve-b]

I think in the not-to-distant future disc capacity will be a minor concern. With the new compression methods that are just over the horizon capacity is not a problem. It's like the Mhz wars with CPU...it's not long before a new measurement is the must have.

[F9zDark]

The companies supporting Blu Ray are not supporting HD-DVD as it would be a conflict of interest and would be about as stupid as betting on two outcomes; imagine going to the race track on betting on two horses...

[steve-b]

the trick is to bet the right amount on every horse that runs...

[Elven6]

For those who don't know a majority of companys who support Blu Ray are owned by Sony so they were forced to jump onto the bandwagon. If Sony stops supporting Blu Ray then those members would also stop. And the some of the other studios who are supporting Blu Ray also support HD-DVD, I don't have a list ready but Wikipedia does.

[F9zDark]

the trick is to bet the right amount on every horse that runs...

LOL, how is that gonna work? As far as I know when betting is concerned only 1 horse wins; maybe I am wrong though :P

[Elven6]

If you bet on every horse then your not going to make a profit unless they all win.

[F9zDark]

For those who don't know a majority of companys who support Blu Ray are owned by Sony so they were forced to jump onto the bandwagon. If Sony stops supporting Blu Ray then those members would also stop. And the some of the other studios who are supporting Blu Ray also support HD-DVD, I don't have a list ready but Wikipedia does.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...orting_Blu-ray

On that list I don't see any companies officially owned by Sony who are on the board of directors.

Really this article is BS, why would Sony even think about dropping BDRoms from the PS3 now? So far no games have been made on DVD for the PS3; I have only seen BD games. It would be utter stupidity to drop the format now, or even stop using them in the PS3; it would cost more to then ship games in BD and DVD format.

[Psumoni]

Wow, so the entire basis of this article is:

"In a move that one [unnamed, un-described] source says is "aimed at family pricing," Sony is rumored to be working on..."

I'm surprised that they didn't throw in a few betamax references and you've got every other article written about how the PS3 is going to fail.

No, I have had the account to gather files and such for quite some time... just my first post.

As I stated, this "leak" comes from an unnamed source that is talking of RUMORS of them THINKING of making something. This is the equivalent of a guy who hands out donuts at the meetings hearing a guy say "What if we made a PS3 w/o a Blu-Ray drive? You know, continue using DVDs for the games?"

If you've ever worked around corporate big-wigs, you would know that the minute somebody with enough weight in a company says that, you have to humor them. From the systems engineers to marketing, you'd have to make a report on how a PS3 sans Blu-Ray would work, sell or not, regardless of how sincere that suit was.

My opinion? Having already been using my PS3 for about 3 weeks now, I wouldn't miss the Blu-Ray for gaming, provided that they had a fast enough DVD drive. Load times are quite acceptable from the Blu-Ray drive, but I'd hate to see them get any longer. Retailers would probably hate to see all those Blu-Ray games recalled and replaced with DVD versions, but consumers wouldn't care, and the XBOX-360 has shown that the DVD format is still adequate for next-gen gaming.

Given that as far as consumers are concerned, there is no difference between Blu-Ray and HD-DVD, and Sony's foresight to include Talladega Nights with every PS3 to make consumers aware of the feature was brilliant. Nobody who has purchased a PS3 is likely to ever purchase a HD-DVD player or HD-DVD.

Bottom line: Exclusion of Blu-Ray from the PS3 won't hurt it in gaming one bit, but it could hurt Blu-Ray's chance of winning the format war.

[jerrt]

i really can't see this as true. weren't the big wigs just talking about making a media only unit. i'm sure it will have blueray.

[DCergo]

Nothing but FUD.

All PS3 games are published on Blu-rays, and will be published on them for the lifespan of the PS3.

It would be supremely stupid to just segment the market with a PS3 that only plays DVDs, leaving the 1st/2nd generation games out of reach because they're on Blu-ray. This is not going to happen.

Sony bet the farm on Blu-ray, and they're sticking with it, for better of for worse.