Akvod said:
What do you mean duped? That people were "forced" to get Bluray on the PS3? There's the 360 avaiable, and ultimately you don't have to buy a Bluray movie. If you're upset that companies are using Blu-ray disks for video games, while many may argue that Bluray is inferior to DVDs, I don't think Hideo Kojima, along with every developer who made a game are in this "conspiracy". You also stated in your earlier post that we wanted DVDs, while Bluray was being forced upon us. So what was up with the PS2 and Xbox then???
So are you against consoles getting 3rd party exclusives in this console war? Sony got support from movie industrialists, and got to get their movies on their disk (like the 360 got games on its system early in the war). We still had a choice, and we decided to buy the format which had more support and movies on it. That's competition, and fair competition.
Bluray will become cheaper... unless its raw materials are worth $20? Bluray came to be accepted because Sony decided to, along with getting movie studios (and their own studio) to support their format, AND they took the risk and gambit to make the PS3 a bluray player. It payed off in the aspect that all those millions of PS3's, although low in the console wars, were huge in the HD format wars, and they were able to get more Bluray players, and convince the studios to give even more support.
Yes, you can say that the PS3 was a "Trojan Horse" for Bluray, but again, we did not have to buy Bluray movies, we had the 360 avaiable BEFORE the PS3, and DVDs aren't going anywhere for a few more years. Companies are able to control the market!!! There's no such thing as force, unless the entire industry is agreeing not to give consumers what they want, which seems nearly impossible without government outright banning a product. If everyone really wanted to buy only DVDs, they'll do so, and the companies who still continue to manufacture and sell DVDs will get the benefit of losing the competition who try to "force" Blu-ray on us.
Advertisement, is an attempt by companies to control the market. Make something cool, and people will buy it (e.g. iPod) Cutting and setting the price is an attempt by comapnies to control the market. While this might sound scary and conspiratorial like you say, due to competition and enough freedom in the market, if there is one company who won't hitch the price up on the product, they'll reap the benefits. If all of the companies want to push Bluray by making it dirt cheap, they're not really "forcing" us to buy it, is it? You're sounding more and more crazy. You seem to despise how companies are trying to compete (or "forcing" as you call it), but it is that very competition that makes you safe from being literally forced to buy a certain product, at a certain price, from a certain company, etc. You don't HAVE to buy Bluray. You don't HAVE to buy a PS3. All movies are on both DVDs and Blurays (or actually, all movies are on DVD, and some on Bluray). |
When I say duped, I'm saying that Blu Ray wasn't naturally accepted by consumers. Because Sony knew the PS3 would sell millions, they put the Blu Ray into the PS3 which in turn forced Blu Ray into the mainstream, instead of being accepted as a stand alone product. The PS3 was listed as the cheapest Blu Ray player and because of the PS3 selling, Blu Ray rode on its back, leading to the eventual price drop in Blu Ray stand alones. It would've never worked had board members accepted that Blu Ray was just as redundant as HD-DVD was. You're obviously not getting what i'm sahying clearly, DVD's are the standard format. DVD's never had as much resistance as Blu Ray recieved.
I am not against consoles getting third party exclusives, because thats just the nature of the game. 3rd party devs generally aren't loyal and in this economy will follow whatever trend leads to the money. Microsoft (as i've said time and time again) revealed the fact that Sony depended too much on third party and less on first and second party. They also financially backed third party more and dropped more first and second between the PSX and PS2 generations. Third parties are generally up for grabs, theres no doubt about this. Microsoft made it extremely hard for gamers to choose between the PS3, by adding third parties to their lineup to the point where the 360 was the cheaper system with nearly all the same games that played them with similar performance and no uploads.
Of course Blu Ray will become cheaper....stand alones already have because of the PS3. Putting the Blu Ray into the PS3 wasn't a risk, it was guaranteed. Blu Ray being allowed to continue stand alone was a risk.
Of course there is a such thing as force. The market should always be allowed to run on it's own. The people should be able to choose what they like and don't think is relvant. Read up all of the reports that brought light to the fact that Blu Ray would've never survived without the PS3. Companies do not control the market unless they are a monopoly.
I'm not crazy, I just see things the way they are. I have no loyalty to brands even if I like their products(ahem, Samsung). This allows me to look objectively and clearly.
