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Beating HD-DVD was the easy part. Beating the entrenched standard is where I believe Blu-Ray will falter. DVD had many advantages that it could boast of over VHS: durability, random access, extras, multiple languages, and yes, better image and sound quality. Blu-Ray's only advantage over DVD is in image and sound quality, and then only to a degree that leaves many people wondering if it's really worth the price. Overcoming that obstacle will be what makes or breaks the format.

Honestly, I think Blu-Ray will become the next laserdisc: a niche format for technophiles, but nowhere near the mainstream.



Complexity is not depth. Machismo is not maturity. Obsession is not dedication. Tedium is not challenge. Support gaming: support the Wii.

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What do I hate about modern gaming? I hate tedium replacing challenge, complexity replacing depth, and domination replacing entertainment. I hate the outsourcing of mechanics to physics textbooks, art direction to photocopiers, and story to cheap Hollywood screenwriters. I hate the confusion of obsession with dedication, style with substance, new with gimmicky, old with obsolete, new with evolutionary, and old with time-tested.
There is much to hate about modern gaming. That is why I support the Wii.