MikeB on 11 January 2008
@ misteromar mk4
IMO neglecting too many things, people don't get a clear enough picture of the situation.
HD DVD had been voted down several times by the majority of the DVD forum until Toshiba changed the voting rules, thus empowering and resulting into the Blu-Ray camp which enjoyed majority support from consumer electronics companies and movie studios.
Combine this with the PS3 comming supplied with a Blu-Ray drive by default (also needed to suit the long term ambitions of many bigger games developers) it was clear HD DVD had no oppertunity to win the format war, in a worst case scenario the market would stay devided.
