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Golvellius on 09 April 2007
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Poseidon said:

Come on, a good number of people bought the HD-DVD drive because it was also hyped by Microsoft, and countering people who said that HD-DVD might fail. And you mean to tell me people wouldn't have a problem giving back their HD-DVD drives and HD-DVDs for far more less? I want an honest answer from you, if Sony had done this, would you be jumping all over them?

I remember a spokesperson of MS stating - this was more than 3 months before the release of the HD DVD drive by the way - that they considered HD DVD the superior choice, but that Blu-ray winning the war was a possibility actually taken into account by MS and that they would - grudgingly - offer a Blu-ray drive in this case. This doesn't exactly fit my definition of hyping a product to begin with. So if I had bought such a drive, I personally wouldn't have a problem of course should this happen. If Sony had done this, I probably wouldn't have a problem, either. Honestly ^^

 

Poseidon said:

And I agree, if Blu-ray flopped, then that would be it for the PS3. But unlike Microsoft, Sony at least have backed it, are backing it, and will be backing it, whereas Microsoft's real intention was probably just to give Sony a hard time and start another format war.

People want to put Microsoft in a better light than Sony, when they are almost on the same wavelength when it comes to spouting bullshit; you mean to tell me there is a difference between Microsoft's crap and Sony's shit?


I personally don't think there is much difference between MS and Sony, but I do think that in this case MS has acted smartly because they don't offer that many targets for criticism this way.

And as for MS not backing HD DVD as much as Sony are backing Blu-ray, it appears true at the moment, but according to my knowledge MS and Broadcom have recently developed a hardware/software reference design for HD DVD playback that was given to Chinese manufacturers to flood the market with cheap HD DVD players. I'm not sure when this is going to happen and what impact it will have on the format war, though.