360 to out future-proof the ps3?

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VetteDude said:

AussieGecko said

Argue all you want  but you havent given sufficient evidence why Blu-ray is the definitive next format. Your arguments seem baseless. Almost you want it to be true not that it will be.

Go Download a smallish game from Steam. I have 20 Mbit Down (best you can get in my area), and it still takes freaking forever. I wanna be able to pop a disk in, and play the game. You gotta realize that not everybody is a uber-nerd who wants everything to be downloaded. People like owning their disks. And you do realize that if Valve decided to shut down Steam today, they could? And everybody would lose their purchases, and online multiplayer for all Steam-based games would be shut down. Yep. Download is SURELY the way to go.

1080P HD Movies stream instantly via Zune on the Xbox no waiting no Blu Ray disc in sight, isn't technology wonderful. Secondly OnLive allows you to play games instantly, no Blu Ray or for that matter console in sight. The problem with these two scenarios is does not sit will with we need huge Blu Ray discs. 

Lastly the point about ownership is probably one for the old timers to talk about going forward subscription and cloud based storage solutions will become dominant. You might not like it but thats progress, not everyone is able to accept change so I am sure you will be accomodated for some years to come.

What is clear to me is that this generation of HD consoles have a lot to give. You cannot write them off based on what they had in them at the start. They are more modular and flexible, today Kinect is showing how an attachment really can lengthen the validity of the product. PS3 could well come up with someting yet I still think it has like the Xbox some years to go before they start talking about replacing this generation. I have not voted on the future proof option as I actually think both the consoles show promise of future proofing.