@Bleezy, seems to me like things are heating up between bluray & hddvd and each side is trying to pull off a decisive move. Problem is IMO Sony already did: even if only sells as little as we're predicting now, 50 mil bluray players in the world is something, even if they are mostly used for games once there the consumers might get a movie sometime if it's convenient/cheap enough. And those 50 mil will be out there no matter what... so while it was forced on consumers and Sony felt the lashback for that it is a fact now. Do i think it's a bad thing that they did? Actually no, I think it was a great move in the long term, if they do keep the platform for 8+ years... but in the short term I agree whit what David Jaffe said in an interview: if it was me I probably would have released the ps3 sooner and cheaper not losing so much marketshare to xbox360... but then again this was kinda of a necessary sacrifice for longer term success. I do believe the problem with games these days is lack of content, not as much lack of processing power... and while the hard part is not storing that content, but producing it, as the industry matures and the art tools get better the space to store that will be needed. (it's no coincidence that so many games happen in Canada. I myself am a old Softimage:XSI fan and there they can work hand in hand with the developers) There's the old programming tradeoff that I think could still apply: more space - less computing because the data can be kept unpacked or somesuch trick. Now the big question is if MS is willing to break the Xbox360 standard by going with builtin HDDVD. I mean it wouldn't theoretically break anything, except the possibility that some developers would realease for it, which could make DVD machines feel 'older' or (the horror!) less supported. The only other thing would be HDDVD + very compatible but slightly better hardware marketed as Xbox360++ ... but while that could guarantee them a sure next-next gen position I don't think even MS is willing to burn that much money... so while MS has been supporting HDDVD I don't think they'll go to insane lengths to do it.
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seems to me like things are heating up between bluray & hddvd and each side is trying to pull off a decisive move. Problem is IMO Sony already did: even if only sells as little as we're predicting now, 50 mil bluray players in the world is something, even if they are mostly used for games once there the consumers might get a movie sometime if it's convenient/cheap enough. And those 50 mil will be out there no matter what... so while it was forced on consumers and Sony felt the lashback for that it is a fact now.
Do i think it's a bad thing that they did? Actually no, I think it was a great move in the long term, if they do keep the platform for 8+ years... but in the short term I agree whit what David Jaffe said in an interview: if it was me I probably would have released the ps3 sooner and cheaper not losing so much marketshare to xbox360... but then again this was kinda of a necessary sacrifice for longer term success. I do believe the problem with games these days is lack of content, not as much lack of processing power... and while the hard part is not storing that content, but producing it, as the industry matures and the art tools get better the space to store that will be needed. (it's no coincidence that so many games happen in Canada. I myself am a old Softimage:XSI fan and there they can work hand in hand with the developers) There's the old programming tradeoff that I think could still apply: more space - less computing because the data can be kept unpacked or somesuch trick.
Now the big question is if MS is willing to break the Xbox360 standard by going with builtin HDDVD. I mean it wouldn't theoretically break anything, except the possibility that some developers would realease for it, which could make DVD machines feel 'older' or (the horror!) less supported. The only other thing would be HDDVD + very compatible but slightly better hardware marketed as Xbox360++ ... but while that could guarantee them a sure next-next gen position I don't think even MS is willing to burn that much money... so while MS has been supporting HDDVD I don't think they'll go to insane lengths to do it.