dpmnymkrprez said:
The dvd in the ps2 were not the best on the market, so why dont they release an alternate ps3, without blue ray, and make blue ray an option??? |
Because the games already out, such as Motorstorm and Resistance are on BD-ROM. I believe both run upwards of ~22Gb worth of data.
Sony and the PS3 are married to the format, and there really isn't any turning back now.
Sony's production and development costs are sunk. They're not getting that back, and it certainly isn't cheap to warehouse the ~1.9M unsold PS3s that have already been built. One way or another, Sony is losing money, so at some point, Sony will have to slash the price in an effort to stimulate sales and hope to make up the loss on a new run containing cheaper BL assemblies coupled with having dumped the legacy chips in favor of brute force emulation.
Problem is, $100 USD won't do it. There is a psychological barrier preventing people from buying the PS3, and coming down to $499 will not overcome that -- if it could they would never have discontinued the 20Gb model. Heck, $200 may not even be enough to do it, given that prior console launches/successes suggest that the target price range for achieving critical mass is around $249-$299 (the original NES bundle, Wii, PS1, PS2, etc ...).
