Max King of the Wild said:
1. no one said kinect was anti consumer 2. If blu-ray was not needed last gen then niether was 512mb of RAM last gen and 4gb of RAM this gen... but that argument is 100% asinine and no one would make it. |
2. totally wrong. the ram and so on are REQUIRED to run a game. A disc is just a storage device used to well store data. A game can be on a usb drive, digital, dvd, blu ray disc, whatever disc nintendo uses, cartridge, ect. It doesn't matter what the game is on storage wise, BUT it does matter that the console has the power to play the game.
can you not download games on your PS3? Are multiplat games for 360/ps3 both playable yet are on different formats blu ray/dvd or whatever 360 uses. The blu ray is just as stated a format that data is stored on. You could still play ff13 on 100,000,000 floppy discs if the ps3 had a floppy disc drive. The blu ray drive was an unneeded thing.
Lets say you download a game on your PS3 and also have the game in hard copy (ie blu ray). You can play BOTH on your ps3, either digitally or hard. Now open up your ps3 and remove the ram or the gpu. Now try and play your game. Neither the digital or blu ray version will work at all. THUS those are needed. The blu ray drive is not. It could have been left out completly such as PSP Go, or it could have been switched with a CHEAPER alternative such as a standard dvd drive.