Worst Mistakes in Gaming

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Bobbuffalo said:

Famine said:

Onimusha12 said:
Were Blu-Ray's small benefits to gaming worth seeing the PS3 destroyed at launch and losing the lion share of its once treasured third party exclusivity to the 360 and Wii? Whether its a good choice or not for gaming, it severly damaged the PS3 and halted the momentum of the Sony brand thus was a huge mistake.

I suppose UMD isn't that high, but I was trying to round out a list.

Still too early to say if Blu-ray was indeed a thorn to the PS3. People also thought DVD playback on the PS2 was a mistake, with quite a brouhaha. People were buying PS2s as a cheap DVD player rather than a gaming machine.

Hasn't that been the case for PS3: With hardware being sold, but not a significant software attach rate to boot?

Is a very different case. When the PS2 appeared, the DVD format was growing and starting to replace VHS's. The costs were reducing and it was the format of the future and people wanted to use them. The PS2 came to fill a "necessity" on those days and that's why the DVD format helped the PS2.

Blu ray is not filling any necesity. DVD's are very far from becoming obsolete and Blu ray feels more like a "luxury" than a necessity. For taking advantage of the Blu ray you need a HD TV and a 7.1 home theatre. Although HD-DVD died, Blu rays weren't growth bigger and is not helping the PS3 at all, because of the costs for manufacture them.

 

 actually i agree with you there the dvd movement was going already but the need for a newer cheaper format and easier to store format is why the ps2 and dvd's did so well. the thing i like bout yourpost is the blue ray not fillin any necessity which i true. there still are tons of people still replacing their vhs collection with dvd's. i think its too early and not much of a jump and such for any hd dvd or blueray to really sell well at all. i think the next big thing besides downloading movies onto lets say sd cards will be recording them on your own dvd's when you do download them. if sony had been smart making a system that saves game data onto the discs themselves would've sold millions more then what the ps3 is doin. and it would be much cheaper.