MikeB on 25 December 2008
@ yushire
Seem SONY wants to even gamble their hardware brand just to dominate their formats against Toshiba...
The PS3 really needs Blu-Ray for the long run. It's not a SDTV targeted console like the PS2 or Wii.
People aren't well educated with regard to its gaming benefits. Scratch resistance, streaming strengths and most important, enough storage to have top quality graphics and audio without too many sacrifices. Adding playback software for Blu-Ray movies just makes a lot of sense.
The benefits of Blu-Ray are IMO already obvious in exclusives and there's plenty of headroom left for developers to tap into. This while multi-platform games developers and 360 exclusive developers already make sacrifices to still fit on 6.8 GB dual layer 360 DVDs.
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune would have been a less impressive game without Blu-Ray, the same for Motorstorm Pacific Rift, the upcoming Killzone 2 would also have become a less impressive game without Blu-Ray, etc. I am happy the PS3 comes with this state of the art technology out of the box.
I love the movie feature, but for games it's IMO equally important.
