I've done quite a bit of thinking on the subject, because my initial reaction was that Bluray was going to fail. That was day one reaction when I first heard bluray was going into the PS3 and was causing shortages for launch. many people complained about not giving consumers the choice, and useing teh PS3 as a Trojan Horse for Bluray, but i've come to realize that Sony may have had an incredibly cunning strategy, whether intentional or not.
Look at the two possible scenarios:
Bluray wins - Sony gets pats on the back all around, PS3 is seen as the more "leading edge" console and now even more people will be looking to get it as a bluray player that even lets you play games too.
Bluray loses - Sony is sad, now the butt of even more betamax and laserdisc jokes then before. BUT now in order to pirate a bluray disc to create illegal copies, pirates don't just need codecs and media formats, they need to go out and find a bluray player AND writer, which by a year down the road may have been completely discontinued from production by all but Sony. Sony now has a proprietary format for their games which become downright expensive and inconvenient to steal.
Either way, Sony would have benefited from the new format.
Thoughts?
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