| Killiana1a said: Only for the PS4 as Sony, if I am not mistaken, owns a huge chunk in the blu ray business and gets royalties for entertainment using blu ray format (I believe I got this info from one of Squilliam's posts). For this reason, I don't see the NextBox and Mii using blu ray. Why fund one of your main competitors? HD DVD for the NextBox and Mii is my safest choice, but we may be surprised with both Microsoft and Nintendo. I could see Microsoft trying to position Live as the console version of Steam and Nintendo doing it's own format, but this is just speculation. |
you realise Sony also own a chunk of DVD right you know the format that everyone other than Sony is using? Sony getting a fraction of disc royalties again is unlikely to even come into the picture when Microsoft and Nintendo are deciding on a format. Also Sony and Microsoft actually do a lot of busyness together in the computer and cell phone areas so Sony is already funding Microsoft by buying Windows and win phone 7, and Microsoft owns one of the commonly used codec's for Blu-ray movies, tho they had a lot more involvement with HD-DVD and would have gotten a lot more royalties from that if it had won. So no Microsoft wouldn't have any problem using blu-ray if it made good business sense which if it's market share continues to grow it will.
As for Nintendo they have used a modified version of the current disc format for the last two generations and I don't see that changing so a slightly modified basically Blu-ray but with less royalties disc format will most likely be used.
HD-DVD is dead and to be used they would have to make all the players and discs themselves and while that would have benefits they lose the advantage of economy of scale that is gained by using a format compatible with the current standard.
So in closing most likely all three will probably use blu-ray in some form or another.
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