Rumour: GTAIV DLC on Xbox 360 will include new city!!!!!! OMFG!!!!

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radioioRobert said:

DMeisterJ said:
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@ RadioRobert

Uhh... no?

Risk their entire game business? Guess you forget about the PS1, PS2, and PSP. And even if they did, has it worked out? Uhh... yeah. They won the format war, and the PS3 is selling much healthier since then.

The only people who believe sony 'risked their gaming business for Blu-Ray' are people who fail to see that there was no risk there, simply an opportunity that presented itself, and worked out for the better of the company as a whole.

 

Well we disagree then. Not that the PS3 will thrive. It will. However if HD had won, things might have turned out a lot less rosy. After losing 2/3 of all money the PS brand had made from all time, they got the BR.victory and turned the PS3 brand around. In that time they also killed off B/C, and dethroned themselves as the undisputed kings of the gaming world. That my friend is risk. It all worked out, but they did risk the gaming division. In your own words, you said they saw an opportunity. So you made my arguement. They took a risk in the name of business. So did M$.it's all business.

 

I would contest your argument that "it all worked out."  They may have permenantly lost any chance of gaming dominance, have definately lost $2-3 billion only to gain a Blu-Ray victory that by all accounts won't come clost to the dominance DVD still has.  Between downloads and DVD, the question in not whether Blu-Ray will be a massive success, it's whether it will be a moderate success or not worth it.

On the other hand, the gaming industry is in a general upswing compared to the movie and home video industry's that are in a general downswing.  As many Sony fanboys have pointed out, what would have happened to Sony's gaming business if the PS3 had launched at $400?  If they'd done that, they still would have had a better shot than Toshiba at clinching the Format War (Blu-Ray had more backers).