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

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Bladeforce said:

mroca said:

StanGable said:
He also forgot to add that it was necessary to add Blu-Ray to inflate the number of Blu-Ray players sold cuz otherwise they wouldn't have beaten HD-DVD

I dont know if the PS3 is the main reason why HD-DVD is dead. I think it was the studios who fell back from supporting HD-DVD and joined the Blu Ray side that brought Toshiba to stop production of HD-DVD players, discs, etc, with anything involved with Toshiba's HD-DVD tech.

Oh absolute crap! Sony put BR on PS3 because they tought the PS3 would fly off the shelves and movie companies would look at BR hardware sales and think thats a  lot of hardware! Not to mention Sony bought there way through the format war!

 

Follow Sony and you follow the devil!

First things first dude, I don't follow the devil...I AM THE DEVIL!

Secondly, Sony has been pushing multimedia for quite some time, so in that respect the PS3 helped sell the format. In a sense, yes PS3's flew off shelves, but not for gamming. Given M$ and their their practices during the console war I don't think you can say anything about Sony's practices. Perhaps if Toshiba was smart they would have pushed the HD-DVD format on M$ and this might be a different discussion.