Sony had 'no choice' but to include Blu-ray in PS3

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KBG29 said:
Instead of looking at it as did PS3 need Blu-ray, look at PS3 today and try to imagine it without it. Every time I think about PS3 without the Blu-ray drive I feel extreamly happy Sony put it in there. I look at my games shelf and see Uncharted, Resistance 2, Metal Gear Solid 4, Little Big Planet, Motorstorm Pacific Rift, Killzone 2, Lair, Heavanly Sword, and Ratchet and Clank, and I think just how much I would be missing out on if they had been starring at that 6.8GB barrier. Sure they could have used multiple discs, but that is not something that publishers are willing to let run wild.

I made a post here a long while back, and I said Blu-ray was the most important tech of this generation, and I stand by that statement today. Blu-ray is the number one reason PS3 is capable of going further than 360, and Wii. Blu-ray is the reason that even in the next generation of consoles PS3 will hold up better than any console in history. As developers gain access to more space with the next Xbox, and Nintendo unit, PS3 will only benefit. In fact, I can not wait to see how EA, and others will explain why their yearly franchises make a dramatic leap on PS3 when the next gen consoles come around, and they port that code, and art to PS3. Perhapps they will just go ahead and start developing first on PS3, and using Blu-ray, then porting down and out to the lesser systems.

You could think about all the games missing from your shelf because the PS3 didn't sell as well as it could have...

When the next generation comes around and they start porting their code to the PS3 it will choke and die trying to run it.. wait what? Yep it will choke and die on next generation code just as much as the lesser consoles. What you see is limited by what the PS3 can hold in memory and process not by how much is stored on the disc.