friedtofu said:
Fans from both sides have the predicament of contradicting themselves when it comes to hd format wars + console wars. My god has this shit been beaten to death over and over. On one side Sony fans are saying why should Toshiba waste their time with hddvd, its a losing format, AND the PS3 isnt failing and its selling lots of software given its smaller user base. Yet on the other end why should Sony waste their time on ps3, its a losing console, and HDDVD is selling very well given its smaller user base. In hddvd's defense, given the 6 MILLION PS3's plus 400K(?) Blu-ray standalones vs 750K hddvd stand alones + xbox hddvd add-ons combined, doesnt a 66:34 ratio look pretty damn GOOD for hddvd? Do hddvd owners just buy more movies? One thing Ive wanted to hear peoples thoughts on, that was brought up in another forum, is why 2 hd formats couldnt survive side by side. "It works for consoles, shouldnt it work for movies?" I dont personally believe this would work myself, since movie studios dont have hardware sales they need to stand behind. Anyone else have thoughts on this?
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Well to be fair, most Blu-ray fanboys are blu-ray fanboys because of the PS3. While most HD-DVD fanboys are fanboys because it's cheaper.
I mean, they play the same movies, that look exactly the same, and sound exactly the same. (well they don't, but the difference isn't discernable by the human ear.)
This is like argueing over which company makes the best spring water that comes from the same spring. Everythings the same except the price and branding.
If both show they are here to say, eventually studios will stop their stupid "so and so exclusive" tags, and everyone will be able to get the movies they want, on the system they want, for cheaper no less.
Smaller movie studios who can't afford both will just find publishers to do it for them. If they can't... the movie probably sucked anyway.
