Would PS3 use Blu-Ray if format war didnt happen?

[zorg1000]

kain_kusanagi said:

zorg1000 said:

kain_kusanagi said:
I think an even better questions is this:

If the Xbox 360 shipped with an internal HD-DVD a whole year before Blu-Ray hit would HD-DVD have won the format war?

I don't know the answer, but HD-DVD is the superior format so maybe if it came standard in Xbox 360 it would have given it the push it needed.

That is a good question, perhaps it would have drug out the format war for a few years

It might have. It might have also nuked the competition and be the standard today. MS doesn't care one way or the other. Sony needed Blu-Ray to win. If it hadn't the PS3 would have been a total disaster.

Also would Iincluding hd-dvd to 360 from the beginning have brought the console price up? I know it wasnt as expensive as bluray but would 360 have cost more like 350-400/450-500 depending on sku?