| raygun said: That parts that weren't B.S. - -Like the ps3, the ps2 was thought to be too expensive at the time, and would fail because of it. ... - built in dvd drive was new, just like the PS3's blu-ray drive |
Erm, the first point is completely not true. PS1 launched for the same price and $300 is a standard for a console launch. Everyone thought the Gamecube was cheap when it launched for less. It's not too expensive.
As for the Blu-ray, I got two points:
1) When PS2 launched the DVD format was already well and truly on its way to dominate. ONLY NOW can we say the same thing for BR, and even then some will still argue that BR is still way too expensive to be completely mass-market.
2) DVD didn't have to compete with any other disk format. VHS is WAY older than DVD is, but DVD isn't that much older than BR. One could strongly argue that there is still a very big market for DVD's, while the VHS production stopped almost immediately after DVD reached a certain level of marketshare.
There's a lot of fail in this thread.
