Why Blu-Ray is bad for the PS3

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GotchayeX said:
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.

 Going by that argument (that something isn't "necessary" would mean that you still farm your own food and raise your own chickens?  Cause, I mean, let's face it.  It really isn't necessary to do any more than that to survive.  Oh, not getting that analogy?  How about this one.  It isn't necessary for you to buy a new car.  But is sure is nice to have one.  Or how necessary is it to order out when you could just make your own meal at home?  Convenience.  Sure, it might cost a little more, but is sure is nice to not have to do all the extra work.  It's not necessary to have electricity, but you pay that bill every day.  People have to work extra to provide you that service when they don't need to.  So why is it really necessary?  You could boil your bath water over an open fire in the back yard.  (It's also not necessary to live in town.  It's costing you extra in property taxes, and the benefit of living in town isn't all that much better than out in the woods.  I mean, it's good enough.  Right?

If you really think BluRay isn't necessary to advance beyond the games we have today, your kidding yourself.  Games are using a full 9G DVD and PS3 games are using more.  If you don't think it's necessary, I take it that you still used vinyl records today?  They are still available, and you get "good enough" sound out of them.  Why would your music need to be on something other than vinyl?  Or heck, even recorder scrolls.

It's about advancing technology.  It will get bigger, faster, smarter, hotter, or cooler.  NOTHING is necessary except food and water.  Everything else is irrelivant by your logic.