Why Blu-Ray is bad for the PS3

[shams]

Harvey Birdman said:

shams said:

1/ Well done to Toshiba then. They saw an obvious flaw with Sony's business model, took advantage of it - and are now in with a real chance of winning the HD wars. At the very least, I suspect they are making a heap of money from HD-DVD.

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Well done for what? Being outsold on a weekly basis? There is no flaw with Sony's business model. blu ray is winning at the moment, right? Studio support clearly favors blu ray (Disney, Sony Pictures, 20 Century Fox, and coming soon, Warner Bros.) Maybe you shoud tell these studios that there backing a "flawed" product.

Oh come on. I'll assume you are being obtuse here.

As I wrote a while back - this isn't an election. Its not like whoever gets to 51% is declared the winner - and its all over.

Its a business - its about money. Last week HD-DVD had, what - 45% of the total HD sale base?

So Toshiba have 45% of the HD weekly market (and around 30% for the year) - and that is a failure?

They have managed to jump in, create a business - and take a significant chunk of the HD movie market share. They have also done the consumer a great service - create competition (something we should ALL be grateful for!) and force prices down.

(Do you consider the PS3 a failure for only having 17% of the next-gen console market? I think not)