Dismal PS3 Launch Forces Sony to Discard Blu Ray

[muffinman]

this article is bs indeed. Sony won't just ditch blue-ray as it is their new baby . Hey who knows it might even catch on a few years down the line when the players are cheap enough

[gdf]

just because it doesn't have the capacity to play Blu Ray movies that's not to say it can't play B-R games no? the 360 cant play hd-dvd movies, but as far as i know the games are hd-dvds. sony should have done the microsoft thing as you can buy an hd-dvd drive for 360 for extra money. think about it, you should have a choice and there's no point in having hd disc technology if you can't use it. if you can afford an hd tv you won't mind shelling out another £100 for a new drive. actually, come to think f it the ps3 must be more expensive than the 360 pretty much because sony decided not to make the B-R disc drive optional and thus forced the consumer to pay for something they dont need. haha sony. 360 owns ps3! Bill Gates is laughing all the way to the bank...

[808]

just because it doesn't have the capacity to play Blu Ray movies that's not to say it can't play B-R games no? the 360 cant play hd-dvd movies, but as far as i know the games are hd-dvds. sony should have done the microsoft thing as you can buy an hd-dvd drive for 360 for extra money. think about it, you should have a choice and there's no point in having hd disc technology if you can't use it. if you can afford an hd tv you won't mind shelling out another £100 for a new drive. actually, come to think f it the ps3 must be more expensive than the 360 pretty much because sony decided not to make the B-R disc drive optional and thus forced the consumer to pay for something they dont need. haha sony. 360 owns ps3! Bill Gates is laughing all the way to the bank...

I'm guessing you wrote that whilst furiously masturbating to your Gears of War instruction manual?

[Elven6]

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.

Im guessing its like that since Sony already has a seat on the BDA its followers woulden't. Even on TV when you watch ads of upcoming releases, a majority of studios they say are publishing it on Blu Ray are not the list either.

[SSaxdude]

Even though PS3 games are on Blu Ray discs, most already out don't take up more than 9 gb (the size of dual layer DVDs.) Go on a torrent site, put in PS3, and look at all the games that are less than 9 gb.

[TuRDMaN]

These are also first generation games. Wait a couple months and see how big they get.

[mavsman4457]

Hahahaha, this is so dumb. Developers love being able to develop on bluray and not having disc limits. Many games have already been and are going to be developed on bluray. I'm telling you right now, this is BS. This thread should be closed or renamed as a rumor because it wouldn't happen. It would be so embarrassing to Sony if they actually just admitted defeat like this. They're not wusses. Whether the format fails or succeed or does neither and just lingers, Sony is going to stick by it for the entire duration of the PS3, which is going to be a long time with all the software updates it will have.

[slappy1]

Maybe it is a rumour, maybe not; but if you think that sony execs haven't at least considered dropping Blue Ray from a profitability perspective, you're in the land of Oz.

I think they are having some shortcommings now, but if they drop blue-ray they will probably have even more problems, as others have already stated. Blue-ray games won't play on the new systems, unless the consumer buys some kind of add on drive.

If they make the switch, all new games will be on DVD format, with the older games to be incompatible with the new system, or these games can be unpadded and rereleased on DVD format. Blue-ray can then be an upgrade, similar to HD-DVD on the 360.

Either way Sony has to make money, Correct?

Maybe the next gen systems can succeed with the HD format, when the technology is cheaper and more consumer priced.

Sony only dominates the 360 in Japan. This is simply brand loyalty, not common sense consumers. Everywhere else, Sony is having problems and needs to correct them. So lets just see what happens.

[F9zDark]

And what would Sony do in the future if they wanted to go back to BDRoms? Go the route of Micro$#@! and make us use a space wasting external drive?

I doubt it.

[cloud_952]

o_O But they can't have a non-blu-ray drive for the PS3. The games that are out now are ON blu-ray, which would mean that the new PS3 couldn't play those games, as a matter of hardware issue. ^_^;