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

[Mr Puggsly]

the2real4mafol said:

Mr Puggsly said:

the2real4mafol said:
Yes, the tech was there anyway. Sony might as well have used it and its actually benefitted games. Games like God of war 3 and Uncharted 2/3 and others would have been restricted too much if they had to fit on a DVD. Blu ray was a good choice in the long run.

God of War and Uncharted would have been been fine on DVDs. Worst case scenario, more disc swaps and FMVs wouldn't be as sharp. Not a single PS3 game showed we needed Bluray this gen.

Not using Bluray would have benefited Sony financially and a cheaper PS3 would have been a greater success.

I completely disagree, going with blu-ray was a good idea for this generation. So what if it didn't make them much money?! It gave the extra storage space that games especially exclusives needed. Uncharted 2 and 3 and Metal Gear Solid 4 are such examples that blu-ray was needed, there were nearly 50gb each! God of war 3 was 35gb, could you imagine these on 6 or 7 DVD's?! It's this reason that it's stupid that Metal Gear Solid V is coming to xbox 360, i dread to think how many DVD's that will use. Personally, i like my games on 1 disc but i'm sure developers have reduced the quality of graphics and even cut stuff from their games, just to fit it on an old fashioned DVD. It was enough for last gen, but not in the HD era

Correction, it made them no money, Bluray cost them billions of dollars. It also made the PS3 too expensive so they they lost fans from PS2 and allowed the Xbox to thrive. What does Sony have to show for it? No disc swaps on PS3? Wonderful!

Games like MGS4, Uncharted, and GoW3 don't actually need that much space. They just aren't compressed.

If DVD wasn't enough for this era, its funny how most games fit on a single DVD. That's thanks to compression.