Sony - The Confusion

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When will people realize that the only reason for Sony including the Bluray drive with the PS3 was to market Blu-ray as a trojan horse. It is so obvious. Sony created this Blu-ray thing and needed a way to promote it. Since in their heads PlayStations would sell no matter what, they came with this brilliant strategy of including a Blu-ray drive with each PS3, and though it would give Blu-ray an enormous advantage. For games, the only thing that Blu-ray can offer is extra storage space, which translates into longer games, nothing more. It cannot help with better graphics, or better textures, because the PS3 VRAM memory is limited to 256MB, and all textures need to be in the VRAM to be rendered on screen (so all the talk about a possible XBOX360 version of MG4 using lower quality textures is pure BS, though it would eventually need more than a DVD). And it also cannot offer better transfer rates, because even though Blu-ray has better transfer rates in single (X1) speed, DVD drives used with video games (XBOX360 for example) spin faster, offering better final transfer rates.
The Blu-ray drive is just a bad idea in my opinion. It increases the PS3 price and doesn’t add much value game wise. It is completely different of the PS2 situation, which was the first to offer a DVD drive, but back then DVD players had been available for 3 years or more, and had already establish themselves as the de facto video format. So that was a win-win situation for users, because Sony was offering a game machine with DVD player at roughly no additional cost. Now they are trying to push an unproved format, which increase the price of the unit. You just need to realize that at this point most consumers aren’t interested on a HD player, and there isn’t a guarantee that they will be in the future due to the ongoing HD format war.
And if you ask me, Sony is well aware that they made a big mistake, which became very apparent when they fired the “PlayStation father” last year. Now they are desperately trying to find a niche market where consumers think that $500~$600 is a great value. The PS3 can be black, but for Sony it’s a huge white elephant…