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Kasz216 on 25 August 2008
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Aj_habfan said:
Kasz216 said:
tombi123 said:
Even if they never make their money back directly from the gaming business, the PS3 won the HD format war for Blu Ray. They will easily, indirectly make their money back that way.

Blu-ray was always going to win the format war vs HD-DVD.

 

Blu-ray was losing before the PS3's release, I don't see how its $599 players could have beat a $199 HD DVD player.

 

Blu-ray had more movie support... the only studios that would of definitly stayed to one side or the other was Sony studios.

Outside of PS3s HD adoption rates have sucked and even with PS3s counted disc adoption is monumentally behind.

Had PS3 not entered the Market the HD "war" wouldn't have even started in earnest yet as nobody would be adopting yet.

The HD fight basically started when Sony said it did... they ended it quick for fear of DVRs VOD and others rather then the longer war they would of won anyway. Whether it benifited them has yet to be seen... and honestly is hard to tell even when the data is in.  Since we won't really know how many extra movies winning the war "early" will sell.