UK Xbox Boss: “Who Needs Blu-ray?”

[Jordahn]

Darth Tigris said:

Jordahn said:

Darth Tigris said:

I found this story about PC gaming embracing DD to be interesting:  http://www.pcworld.com/article/205979/why_digital_downloads_are_soaring_on_pcs_not_consoles.html?tk=hp_new

So does that mean it really IS the future for next gen?  Not for Sony, because they have royalties tied to disc formats that they'd be foolish to give up.  But what about MS and Nintendo?

Anyway, as for THIS gen of GAMING, Blu Ray has proved to be a superfluous luxury.  The movie thing is debatable, though.  Does anyone have a link to a professional comparison between the same movie 1080p downloaded through the Zune marketplace or Playstation store and one played on Blu Ray?

As long as SONY allows for DD of some retail titles, I don't see the issue here.  It can very very plausable to argue that the profits made from a DD outweighs the revenue earned from royalties.  Both ways, SONY can benefit.

Just basing on what Sony themselves have said about the next generation of Playstation.  http://www.mcvuk.com/news/40618/Hirai-PS4-not-download-only?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed: mcvuk/oXMK (MCV: games industry news)

I don't care to know what these console makers say because of PR.  But I will say that SONY allows for DD of retail games via PSN.  Also, I know that royalties from media sales (Blu-ray) is only one means of revenue while royalties from 3rd party sales is another.  Bottom line: if SONY is making more revenue from 3rd party software via DD than from Blu-ray sales, then good for them.  At least it's coming from at least two fronts.