| Dodece said: Are we seriously looking at the specter of a true division collapse. Could Sony actually find itself in the next few months looking to sell off its gaming division? Imagine the holy hell that would ensue were Nintendo or Microsoft to buy Sony gaming on the cheap. Ironically it might be the way to go to increase BluRay penetration which is what Sony really wanted in the first place. Selling off their console effectively killing it they wouldn't be competing quite so directly with Microsoft of Nintendo. Both of which would have greater reason to adopt the drive as a standard. Which they will not do now due to competitive reasons. We thought last years holiday season was critical. Could this season be even more critical? |
Don't know where you get this idea.
Nintendo has never adopted anyones format for discs or cartridges. They have always used their own proprietary format. Also, they try to keep their systems cheap, so Blu-Ray is out of the question til standalone blu-ray players are in the $75-100 range.
Microsoft launched their system before blu-ray was even remotely viable. If they had adopted it, they probably would have had to charge $1k for their system, which would have been suicide. Now if they adopt it, they fracture their already small user base, as the 20m users with the old x360 wouldn't be able to play new blu-ray games.
don't be suprised if next generation Nintendo adopts blue laser disc technology, but they invent their own format. So you can expect 30-50gb discs, but not in a standard format.
