The format war was unnecessary. It never should have happened. Imagine if there had been a format war over DVD?
Hindsight doesn't do anyone any good though...
I'd be loathe to underestimate the PS3 in the Blu Ray game. Considering how shitty the machine was and still IS for games, I'd imagine that most of the hardcore gamers would have bought xbox instead of bothering with the Playstation. Much cheaper, Much better games, none of this installation shit... Yeah, if I didn't want BD, I'd have bought an Xbox first, hell I had to buy one eventually anyway because the PS3 didn't have half the games I wanted, and they had castrated versions of the games I did want, with all the good DLC going microsoft way.
So you have to expect that a lot of gamers who were just in it for games stayed far away from Sony, but a lot of people who are big gamers already have the HDTV and decent surround sound system, so they could USE the blu ray, why wouldn't they? Besides, the PS3 is still one of the best blu ray players around. It plays everything, in the latest profile, has a great firmware update system, plays Divx and a shitload of other PC file formats, can stream from your computer (I use that as much as I use it for BD), and now you can get hulu and netflix on it. Why the hell would you buy anything else?
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Nick @ Jun 22nd 2009 2:19PM
The format war was unnecessary. It never should have happened. Imagine if there had been a format war over DVD?
Hindsight doesn't do anyone any good though...
I'd be loathe to underestimate the PS3 in the Blu Ray game. Considering how shitty the machine was and still IS for games, I'd imagine that most of the hardcore gamers would have bought xbox instead of bothering with the Playstation. Much cheaper, Much better games, none of this installation shit... Yeah, if I didn't want BD, I'd have bought an Xbox first, hell I had to buy one eventually anyway because the PS3 didn't have half the games I wanted, and they had castrated versions of the games I did want, with all the good DLC going microsoft way.
So you have to expect that a lot of gamers who were just in it for games stayed far away from Sony, but a lot of people who are big gamers already have the HDTV and decent surround sound system, so they could USE the blu ray, why wouldn't they? Besides, the PS3 is still one of the best blu ray players around. It plays everything, in the latest profile, has a great firmware update system, plays Divx and a shitload of other PC file formats, can stream from your computer (I use that as much as I use it for BD), and now you can get hulu and netflix on it. Why the hell would you buy anything else?