Capcom laments DVD capacity - Lost Planet 2 compromised

[johnsobas]

joeorc said:

johnsobas said:
yea if 360 went HDDVD they would be way way behind in market share and would have lost way more money. Not exactly win/win. The only people that it helps is Sony.

see that's the big problem, you say lost market share, an would have lost way more money would be a non win win, let's just examin that

one the xbox360 released before the PS3, so if HD DVD was installed right from the get go inside the xbox360 there would have been a jump start for Toshiba to have a much stronger relation, and more leverage to the movie production companies to go with HD DVD instead of Blu-Ray because a year's head start would have granted HD DVD more sales installbase. the same way it also helped the Blu-Ray format because of the PS3 being released right off the bat even though in 2003 Blu-Ray was first released to the consumer in Asia it was not released to everyone and was mainly for recording instead of used as a movie playback format until the Blu-Ray founder's decided one the spec's in 2004 for movie standard's for HD optical disc distribution. back than Blu-Ray was the favored format but If Microsoft would have gone with HD DVD for one Microsoft's IHD control scheme would be the main software for HD TOPSET BOXES instead of BD-java that Blu-ray player's and recorder's use.

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Not only that but many of the developer's game's designed would have less of a problem with storage issue's for their project's IF HD DVD was used from the get go

this just boil's down too Microsoft knew there would be some risk both way's , though HD DVD would have been a much more of a risk, just like it was for Blu-Ray with more of an upfront cost for the unit but over time it prob. would have been a better over all choice even if Microsoft and Toshiba did not come out on top with HD DVD it still would have been an over all better solution in the long run over time than HD DVD for optical disc distribution cost's to developer's.

That doesn't solve the market share issue, 360 would have been stomped if they released with HD DVD.  They would have been forced into a $600 launch price like the PS3 and a 2005 launch would have been impossible.  That is a recipe for epic fail.  Sony is the one who should have not put blu-ray in PS3, then we wouldn't even be talking about this, PS3 could have launched at $400 quite possibly making a profit from the start, and market share would have been much higher.

Instead we are arguing about tiny things like putting things on DLC instead of on the disc, and lower resolution FMVs and compressed sound.  That's really not worth the trouble.