An article in the Philadelphia Inquirer asks whether the Blu-Ray format is going to spell disaster for Sony in not just their ‘home video’ division – but also for their gaming division:
Obsessed with owning proprietary formats, Sony keeps picking fights. It keeps losing. And yet it keeps coming back for more, convinced that all it needs to do is push a bigger stack of chips to the center of the table. If Blu-ray fails, it will be the biggest home-electronics failure since Betamax. If it drags PlayStation 3 down with it, it will be one of the biggest corporate blunders of our time.
Philadelphia Inquirer
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I have been trying to keep up on this.It seems to me that if Sony is gong to make a grab for the brass ring and tries to buck the system then PS3 will be the object to do it with. First the company dominates the market in games, yes this has been stated, but the thing to remember is that with that comes the third party developers. These people are going to be using the new format for the games. These disks are pushing 50 GB that is a lot of storage. Second the lines for PS2, lets not forget that the game system was basically sold out before it shipped to the US. Third let us not forget the overgrown child with a checkbook, myself included. These are the people who are old enough to put down the money to buy the system without asking mom and dad. These are the people that the M games are made for and make up a growing percentage of the gaming industries consumers. The real question is will the PS3 play all disk formats that is the key to weather the system will fail. If the system will play the HD-DVD as well as Blu-Ray then the system will survive.
June 14th, 2006 at 4:03 am