| Comrade Tovya said: (I didn't use the quote thing, it was getting waaayyy too long, lol) Anyway, I think it is unfortunate, because developers really haven't taken advantage of the space that the Blu-ray disc gives them. And especially now, since the 360 owns a the larger marketshare, 3rd party dual releases will never get larger than 8.5gb.. it just doesn't make financial since for 3rd party games to be completely re-done for the PS3 when it's just easier to port it over to the PS3 mostly intact. Whatever the case is, next generation, all 3 console manufacturers will have to use a higher media format than standard DVD, that's for sure. Sony will no doubt continue using Blu-ray, but I really have no idea what Nintendo and MS will do. If it were myself making the decision, I would go for HD DVD... it's cheap & abandoned by Toshiba, so the royalties from it would be virtually nil. Not to mention there are factories that are still stuffed full of unused HD DVD drives that could be bought by MS for 10% of the wholesale price. And really, HD DVD space per disc is nearly equivalent to Blu-ray, so it just makes sense to me. The whole school of thought that a console must be able to play disc-based movies was destroyed this generation anyway. The wii doesn't (and it's #1), the XBOX 360 is a horrible standard DVD player (and it's firmly in 2nd place), and Sony which makes the best Blu-ray player/upconverter in their console is in deep last place. |
Heh,good idea it was getting long..
I agree with you about Blue Ray space not being touched with multiplat games,and i really agree with why third party would enhance games for PS3,while the 360 version is 8.5.
Im sure the Xbox720 will go wtih HD-DVD,Since it will have dirt cheap dvd like you said.
