txrattlesnake said:
Soriku said:
txrattlesnake said:
Soriku said:
Nintendo went with cartridges when CDs became more prominent for the N64. Then Nintendo went with smaller CDs over DVDs (don't remember what the small CDs were called) for GC. Nintendo went with optical discs over DVD for the Wii. There's no doubt in my mind they'll use another CD format. It can still be like blu ray, storing 50 GB and such, but it won't be blu ray.
Disney likes supporting blu ray for movies. Epic Mickey isn't a movie, and KH3 won't be a movie. |
But unless Nintendo had the blu-ray movie feature, then they would never fully be able to stamp out PS3 because when PS3 is cheap and has the added benefit of dvds being off the market and all the best movies available only blu-ray, that keeps them as a competitor with something Wii doesn't offer.
Also, when Nintendo went with cartridges on N64, cds weren't the dominant media type -- they had only been used on obscure consoles and hadn't lived up to their true potential. Pretty much the same thing with dvd versus the gc disc. DVD was still in its infancy when they did that. This gen when dvd was the dominant media, they went with dvd.
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The Wii is beating the PS3 fine without blu ray though...
Blu ray isn't completely prominent right now anyway. Next gen it will be a lot more popular.
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It's true that over the course of this gen the Wii has a built lead over PS3 that is almost insurmountable. But looking at just this past year and especially in Japan, for a console that has been considerably more expensive than the Wii, the PS3 has been holding its own just fine with Wii and has beaten the Wii several weeks of this year.
Also, the PS3's price cut was arguably what was responsible for the Wii's own price cut that even with a couple of big game releases has yet to completely shut down the battle between PS3 and Wii this year in Japan.
Most analysts predict that blu-ray will really start to become the mainstream format in 2010. Big releases like The Lord of the Rings on blu-ray next month will help with that.
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Just as an observation ...
Since before the original XBox was released, everything HDTV has been just 1 or 2 years away from becomming mainstream and yet the majority of people seem unwilling to adopt to HD formats until they don't have an option anymore. Realistically, I wouldn't expect more than 33% of people to care about Blu-Ray until most people have a Blu-Ray playing device in their home that they purchased for a reason besides playing HD movies.
