Controller vibration - most gamers dont care if this included or not. Its would be nice to have but its not a console maker or breaker, so it doesnt matter.
Blue Ray - It doesnt translate to a much better movie experience than HD so why even bother making a new format to begin with? Simple, they want to win this so called format war so that they can make money from selling the license. In other words, it didnt have to happen but Sony got greedy. The extra capacity is not needed nor will it be used in this generation of gaming or movies. Some companies claimed they needed the space but it was only because they chose not to compress things properly. There are no games in the market coming or otherwise that need 9gigs of space save for some MMO's on the PC. No console game should even come close.
Format War? - Imho, there isnt one. Since the formats are currently so volatile (we should see 100gig discs very soon), it will be impossible to pin down any single format. Plus people are generally happy with normal DVD. A normal person really cant tell the difference between DVD and HD or blue ray nor do they care to. This isnt like the days of VHS vs DVD. This is just DVD1 vs DVD2 vs DVD3 to the common consumer. They are all DVD as far as they are concerned and since consoles will barely penetrate about 10% of all households, I dont think any definitive change is going to happen. I think that DVD will remain, and HD and Blue Ray movies will be phased out like Beta vs VHS years ago. VHS won because they simply had a larger install base despite being lower quality. If I had to pick between HD & blue ray however, ill place my money on HD. Blue ray has more capacity but HD is cheaper and already has decent penetration.
