Will Blu-Ray Kill PS3?

06/09/06

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Piers Fawkes

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Piers Fawkes is the founder and CEO of PSFK, leading retail & business intelligence platform, founder of Retail Innovation Week and co-founder of Wallkit. Piers is considered a trends and innovation expert and is called to provide talks around the topics of the reports that he and his team publish every month. He has provided hands-on advice to future-forward brands including Apple, Facebook, Google, Nike, Red Bull, Samsung and Target.

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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.

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.

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