When will the Xbox 720 (or whatever) come put? Post your predictions here.

[Prodigy_BE]

You really think the consumer will decide on the fact that blu-ray will be bigger than dvd? Jeez, you're ignorant.

Just as DVD was forced upon us, BD will too.
Distributors want to move away from dvd, because they're too easy to copy, have too small a profit margin and illegal downloading makes them miss out on tons of $$$.

So in the future, you will see big movies being released first on blu-ray, with the dvd release the following month. Just as they did with dvd. And the more people who buy into dvd, the more they will push dvd releases back.

BD means less piracy for distributors, bigger margins, and selling you some of the the same crap multiple times.

And I know BD has lots of contributors, but Sony's share in all this is quite big. So the % of the royalties for them is also quite big. You really think a hardware and software giant with that much resources would be pushed out of the market that easy?

As a gamer, I hope MS keeps making Xbox 720, Xbox 1440 and so on. Just to keep competition running, and keep Sony away from domination. Because that wouldn't be a good thing for us, gamers.

But the analist in me says it aint gonna happen.
We'ge got more chance to hope for a unified platform. Like DVD is one, and HD tv is one, and gasoline is one, and so on.

Only then wil gaming truly be mass market