| Demonslayersoultaker said: Harddrives are not killing blu rays, harddrives are bigger yes but blu rays are infantly cheaper then a comparable size/physical size harddrive and the speed issue is still there with downloading, most of the consumer base doesn't have the connection to download that high quality within a resonable amount of time and in 10 years most of them still won't especially in other areas in the world one or two games is one thing but if you put every full game on your harddrive it would fill up incredibly fast not to mention the whole having to download that much, unlimited internet still has caps for downloading and you'd reach them Movies have nothing to do with medium for gaming, several times companies have used unique mediums for games, (gamecube, snes, genesis, psp ect) so even if dvd won movies for the next million years blu ray would still be better for games because it gives the developers more room to work and make a better game |
harddrives are quicker than blu-ray and the portability as you only need a usb port outweighs blu-ray usability.
Honestly this conversation could go on forever, if you believe that fine, you should say imo, blu-ray is not a definted upgrade, it hasnt won the battle, you are talking like it has. Piracy believe it or not are ripping sales off blu-ray more than they did with dvds imo that is why the prices have plummetted on blu-ray movies, in aus for ex they entered the market at around 60, now you can get some for around 20. Some PS3 games budget games are now 10. Which is extraordinary.
Imo HD-DVD (from ms point of view, or they would have put it in the 360) was simply to fight blu-ray so Digital Distribution would get a foothold, it has done what was necessary.
Movies have EVERYTHING to do with medium for gaming as some people buy a ps3 for a blu-ray and this is plain and down the road fact. If PS3 uses an obsolete disc drive than sales will drop (not saying to a high extent) But i personally know people who chose the ps3 because of the blu-ray.
It is almost Naive to think that gaming medium is strong enough to last on their own, look at UMD, you could play movies on it as well but as a format it failed and movies stopped getting made for them.
Give me a reasonable point to converse against or we are simply going around in circles...
