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albionus on 08 May 2007
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tmbh said:

I have to agree with HappySqurrie!!


This is a price war!

Everyone can afford a Wii (even if they can't get hold of one) and it appeals to a bigger customer base.

 PS3 certainly has a huge fanbase from PS2 owners wanting to upgrade but with its current price and lack of games its gonna struggle.  I dont expect to see a price drop for a while,  cheaper manufacturing costs will help Sony loose less money and a price cut could be here by end of the year in time for xmas but I would'nt be suprised if it didnt come for another 6 months after that!!

This is also a format war.

Betamax was far superior to VHS but look what happened.

Blu-Ray vs HD-DVD could go the same way (I would champion Blu-Ray over HD-DVD basically because it has more storage capacity)

But what is the difference between Blu-Ray and HD-DVD?  Both formats will play films in the SAME 1080p resolution with uncompressed 5.1 sound (lets not niggle over compression formats etc) the point is they are the same!! There is no difference!!  Its a silly war!!

Betamax and VHS had big quality / resolution differences, VHS was inferior but the point is that there was a clear difference between the formats so consumers knew what they were getting, there was a clear choice.  Same with consoles Wii works on any TV and is affordablebut to take advantage of PS3/XBOX 360 you need to spend hundreds or thousands upgrading your TV for HD and buying a new surround processor for true HD surround sound etc.

And who wants a 1st generation Blu-Ray / HD-DVD drive NOT ME!! 

 There is also much boasting of Blu-Ray software sales trampling HD-DVD but hardware sales are much closer.

 I predict a draw/stalemate dual players will be the best choice!! 

 Console wars will become a more even playground, I dont know who will win outright, the point is the lead of victorous side will be significantly less than what Sony has had with its last two consoles.

Well HDDVD has an advantage in stand alone players, but I think BluRay has around a 10:1 advantage overall because of the PS3.  Even with that advantage movie sales are only 3:2 in favor of BluRay at the moment.  Although total sales are still so extremely low (a fraction of what big DVD movies sell in a day) that many of those BluRay "sales" could be movies given away with PS3 bundles.  I think the bigger question is will Apple come out of nowhere and sucker punch Sony and MS the way Nintendo did.  Sony and MS had this big huge expensive console war planned until Nintendo stole the market with a cheap market friendly device.  I wonder if Apple TV will have to same effect to Sony and MS' big huge expensive format war.  Perhaps instead of a PS3 or 360 at the center of most peoples entertainment centers there will be two small white boxes .