Why Blu-Ray is bad for the PS3

[GotchayeX]

I hate to say it, but you've completely missed the point again.

Nowhere in my quoted post do I talk about the PS3 being more expensive because of BluRay or about games on BluRay costing more simply because they're on BluRay. That said, it seems pretty obvious that a BluRay drive is more expensive than a DVD drive, and that a BRD is more expensive than a DVD, but that's beside the point.

The point was that the realization of benefits from BluRay both isn't particularly meaningful to consumers and isn't worth the price for developers.

It's absurd to argue that making use of BluRay - that is, filling between 9 and 25gb - is generally only as expensive as making use of a DVD. To actually make a game on BluRay in any way different than a game on DVD, you have to exceed the space limitations on a DVD, and that will prove to be generally more expensive. However, doing this is cost-prohibitive, since it doesn't capture many more sales than just using 9gb would, which evidences that consumers really don't care that much about the extra content.

You even concede this in your last paragraph when you say that it's harder to see the benefits of BluRay in games. You even grant that the extra space is only nice because it allows for more 'if the designer so chooses'. That right there seems to torpedo any notion of BluRay being necessary - there wouldn't really be a choice if it was, and many more developers would have made use of it.