What if Sony had released Playstation 3 without a Blu-Ray Player

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disolitude said:

alpha_dk said:
I don't know why people are assuming HD-DVD would win. All it would have done would be to force more competition in the standalone realm; lower prices, more features and competition, and the formats battling on their own merits. Is everyone who is saying Blu-Ray would have lost also saying that Blu-Ray was worse than HD-DVD? Because even HD-DVD was too expensive for the mainstream at that point, so it would still have been a battle over the technophiles, which I am not so confident HD-DVD would have won...

HDDVD would have won because...

- HD DVD sold much more standalone player than bluray once you subtract PS3.

- HD DVD had both the DVD and HD DVD copy on one disk so customers could have gotten the HD DVD copy even if they had only the DVD player

- HD DVD were cheaper to make as they are the same size as DVDs and the manufacturers didn't have to change the size of the machines used to press the damn things

- Finally, players and movies wee slightly cheaper on HDDVD.

 

I thought standard DVDs weren't on all HD DVD discs? And what's that about the size? Physical size? I don't know about you but at least my PS3 uses DVD-size discs but they are Blu-ray instead of DVD.

Well, the price being a lot cheaper, Sony might even be at more direct competition with Nintendo instead of struggling to reach the second place. Depending on the interest the current userbase has in BD, Sony might actually have lost a significant amount of sales. Still, I doubt MS would be at a very strong position right now