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S.T.A.G.E. on 24 June 2013
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Mr Puggsly said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:
sales2099 said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:

lol bluray was totally not needed last gen apart from winning Sonyy the format war.......

Tons of mandatory installs, because the loading speeds were inferior to that of DVD tech in the 360. And to top it all off the vast majority of 360s library was single disk, with only JRPS taking up most of those games that required multiple disks.


I was skeptical of Blu Ray....now I threw out my DVD player and now I squarely use the PS3 as my Blu Ray player. All my friends even my 360 and Wii owning friends have Blu Ray players.  It served a purpose inside and out of the gaming industry unlike the Kinect which MS is forcing into the box because they know lightening wont strike twice with peripheral being sold seperately. The market accepted Blu Ray after the market price went down because of the PS3. Sony has been doing this for a while, especially with the PS2. The PS2 was the cheapest DVD player in 2001 much like the PS3 in at its price. Sony made it affordable for all and saved some of the top manufacturers in electronics investment.

1. Your Bluray owning friends probably waited for significant price cuts before adopting that technology. Just like MS did beforing putting it in their platform. Also, its actually useful now that games are requiring significantly more space.

Exactly Pug, Pug the PS3 was responsible for that. The Wii U is even using a form of Blu Ray. :)

2. Kinect technology is being used beyond gaming. I can use that technology to play a movie, order a pizza, browse the web, etc. Xbox isn't just a gaming device.

Sure it isn't thats what Microsoft would want the casuals to believe, but they aren't going to drop $500 on a console. :)

3. The technology would have become affordable with or without Sony pushing it. I'm not sure why you're praising Sony so much for pushing Bluray. Why does it matter so much to you?

Really?....You do know Blu Ray was going to die had Sony not pushed it right? HD-DVD was destroying it. The PS3 dropped the price and expanded marketshare. Read up on it Pug Pug!  :)