If bly-ray wins the PS3 will get a boost in sales and possible get a software boost. My uncle is getting a PS3 for blu-ray only since he doesn't play games. I will buy GT5, FF XIII and VS, and maybe others since he bought a PS3 so it might sell some software thanks to blu-ray winning as well. But this in no way means that the 360 is out, it still is selling well in NA and the PS3 is failing in NA so it is up for grabs.

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Sony has tons of creed with the brand - and they have touted it as the cheapiest BR player on the market. Those two elements, and a new sku at $399 made the holidays awesome for Sony. However, they are still taking big losses on every PS3 they sell, and yeah, it's still leading in weekly sales, but just wait until mid spring to see if that trend keeps up. If I were in a race, and a competitor was hitting faster times than me, would I really care? Nah ... because I am in the lead.

MS has dropped the price of the 360 down $50 in its 2-year lifespan. Just once. Sony? In a year, it's had 2 price cuts, 4 different skus, 2 deleted skus JUST to keep it competitive.

And for most folks, there's no compelling reason to jump to BR even in light of the Warner announcement. It's better than DVD, but not by much.

Blu Ray *winning* will have some folks moving into the HD arena, but not as many as you think. When folks don't know the difference between an HDTV, HDMI and HD DVD,  you have some problems ... 

BluRay succeeded in large part because Sony tethered it to the PS3, giving it a quick and easy way to expand the user base.

HDDVD failed in part because MS refused to do the same thing.

HOWEVER...

PS3 has struggled BECAUSE it tied itself to BluRay, raising prices well beyond consumer demand.

And the 360, being independent of HDDVD, will be able to survive it's demise with no problem.

Microsoft is hedging their bets more on digital distribution anyways. They talk quite a bit about Xbox Live every now and then

just throwing this out there, but they are going to do blu ray support--so...yeah

1. Blu Ray has been winning for over a year. It has not helped PS3 much.

2. PS3 is edging out the 360, not "killing it". And that's after 2 price cuts, when the 360 has had one, and a relatively minor one at that. It now has a good deal of room to cut prices itself, and that will almost certainly drive sales up.

3. Do some math. Even under best case scenarios, the PS3 could not catch the 360 until 2009 at the earliest, and that's with zero competition in the East. MS has already assured the 360 a better showing this generation than last, while the PS3 is almost guaranteed be seen as a disappointing follow up to the PS2.

4. The average consumer doesn't care about BluRay. Those that do are generally tech heads who, if they care about games, will own multiple consoles. DVD was a fluke - the right technology at the right time which showed historically unprecedented success. The PS2 was able to ride the DVD tidal wave. Unfortunately for the PS3, BluRay's wave is much smaller.

lol in usa the 360 kills ps3

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MS said they *could* do it if the consumers wanted it. However, what's the attach rate for the HD DVD? Rarely do  add-ons ever do good business for console makers (Sega CD, Sega 32X). MS laid out their gameplan - and it's IPTV.