| Mr Puggsly said: I'll be blunt, I can't point to a single game that was better thanks to Bluray. The best things Bluray had to offer on PS3 is higher quality video and no disc swaps. It appears to me the only thing that motivated Sony to push Bluray was royalties and it made the PS3 signficantly more expensive. Had PS3 not included Bluray, it might have launched for $399. Not everyone wants Kinect, but not everyone wanted Bluray either. So I ask again! Is forcing Kinect on people any different than Sony forcing Bluray on us for PS3?! |
I would say it's very different... I think pushing blu ray was, quite frankly, a lot worse, for several reasons:
1) The PS3 was $600, and that was 7 years ago. Especially adjusting for inflation, that makes it way more more expensive than the X1.
2) Bluray didn't give an expanded experience. It prevented multiple discs from being used, but didn't add anything new to gaming. (Granted, for those who wanted a blu ray player, it was a good deal) Kinect on the other hand adds more capabilities, gaming and otherwise.
3) Bluray was slower. Since it was new, it was actually slower, back then, than a DVD drive. So PS3 games, pretty as they were, came with longer load times and sometimes lengthy mandatory installs.
Now in this new gen, I haven't purchased either system yet, the first game that interests me enough to want to get on a next gen platform (even though it'll be on the 360) is Titanfall. What may cause me to get an X1 before that, though, is the voice control. Maybe it's growing up watching Star Trek and other scifi, but I love the idea of it recognizing me and responding to voice commands. The fact that it's mandatory is fine with me, because I feel like that sort of stuff is what future technology should be like.
Actually it makes me think of Star Trek 4, when Scotty comes back in time, and tries to use computers from our era. He sits down and stars talking to it and doesn't know why it's not working. Because in the future, everything should respond to our voices and recognize us, right?
*Though I realize, people could say the same about Bluray as a standard. But at the time, it wasn't a standard yet. If HD-DVD had won the war, it would merely have been consumers subsizizing Sony's attempt to decide the new standard.
