| KoopaKidBilly said: I still don't know why some people believe the PS3 inclusion of Blu-Ray DVD is just like the PS2 including DVD. The PS2 was not the first device on the market with a DVD drive. The PS3 is the first device that any consumers have seen that has the Blu-ray Drive. I remember before the PS2 was released I had watched Movies on DVD and they were already being adopted as drives in PC's. Think about it when the PS2 came out the idea of getting a DVD movie to play in it wasn't that far fetched. Blu-Ray on the other hand is still very early in it's introduction to the public. I think wikipedia disagrees with the idea of Sony owning/benifiting from DVD. I believe Toshiba (http://www.dvd6cla.com/) gets most of the rolayties the only idea that Sony provided was the EFMPlus technology. |
The PS3 wasn't the first blu-ray player. Blu-ray drives are in PCs, as are blu-ray burners. If Sony contributed to DVD I'm sure they benefited.
I'm not trying to argue that blu-ray will succeed, even if I think it will, but it is superior to hd-dvd in space, theoritical space, speeds, scratch resistance (very hard to do anything to a blu-ray disc that will prevent it from playing), and studio support (by quantity, since one might think Universal is the best or something).
As for games...I believe several developers have mentioned the squeeze of space that dvd-9 has. I think the PS3 versions of games will be superior because of the added space and potentially extra features such as the Hard Boiled pack-in for Strangehold.
We'll see how much of a benefit it is. It's possible that hd-dvd will hang around too long and blu-ray games won't make a difference, but I believe at least one of those won't happen.
