Interesting Article about Sony (and VGCharts sighting)

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Erik Aston said:
Clearly, Sony thought they were the de facto market king of videogames. Only vast, market-dominating PS3 sales, allowing them to execute their "10 year plan," would maybe give way to DVD-level Blu-Ray adoption several years down the road.

How do you figure? If the Blu Ray format keeps continually and increasinly growing the gap with HD DVD, then the format war will subside quickly with all HD movies coming out on the Blu Ray and all players becoming Blu Ray players. They don't need the PS3 to completely dominate the console race to pull this off, they just need it to sell a good amount.

Blu-Ray will by default see DVD-level adoption if it is the only available HD format. HD adoption will continually get stronger as HD TVs are bought in larger and larger numbers, unless you think that downloadable movies will become the norm very quickly in the next 3-5 years which I don't think will happen.