The PS3 not performing as bad as some claim?

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HappySqurriel said: This is a problem with Sony's strategy ... When GTA4 is released this year I have the choice of spending $400 on an XBox or $600 on a PS3 to play that game because I own neither system, does the PS3 offer enough benefit for me to choose to spend $200 extra to own it? Blu-Ray has its disadvantages; the main one being that the player is expensive, and the transfer rate is pretty low.

Yes, I agree, exactly there is IMHO Sonys biggest problem. Sony can't win a price war. The Xbox 360 is a financially much more healthy console. While Microsoft probably won't even make a big financial loss, when they lower their prices after the processor shrink, Sony on the other hand has still a long way to go to even reach the break even point. On the other hand it is rather cheap and easy to develop multi-plattform games (compared to the X-box PS-2 times) that you can demand fom Sony or Microsoft that they have to pay you for the games that you do not sell on the other plattform. Very expensive. And then the situation looks like I can get nearly identical games on these two plattforms for the same prices. I take the cheaper one. While the BluRay would probably get "Well, nice, but the discs costs more than 20 Euro per movie. I think I'll take the DVD for 7 Euro.".