BluRay has a kind of strange rep among people yet, kinda like "neat but not necessary". I'm in the same boat for now, but I have a feeling that the PC market is going to decide it, with higher bandwidth and more storage capacity (don't even try to debate that point) it'll be a sure hit among PC users once hardware and disc prices go down (a lot...).

I to agree that the Blu Ray is a neautral thing. Cause alot of people do(if you choose to believe this or not) use that as a point of advantage to buy the PS3. However the intial sticker shock drove prospective buyers away. When it's all said and done though PS3 will be remembered as a system that delivered some of the best games ever of this generation as well as the best looking games of it's time. (Not Saying the other systems don't deliver just pointing out the facts as they stand and note that I'm talking after this generqation of systems is over because I don't believe that PS3 is going to die off.)

I to agree that the Blu Ray is a neautral thing. Cause alot of people do(if you choose to believe this or not) use that as a point of advantage to buy the PS3. However the intial sticker shock drove prospective buyers away. When it's all said and done though PS3 will be remembered as a system that delivered some of the best games ever of this generation as well as the best looking games of it's time. (Not Saying the other systems don't deliver just pointing out the facts as they stand and note that I'm talking after this generation of systems is over because I don't believe that PS3 is going to die off.)

Perhaps, but it has freed a lot of developers from disk space constraints they would otherwise be facing.  While escalating the price did lower sales, it also gave PS3 games the potential to be much much greater than those of its counterparts.

I'd rather pay once for the extra space and see its value in every game I buy than start with a cheaper system and see weaker games with every purchase.

Perhaps a burden on the PS3 for its FIRST YEAR, when the prices drop and the game quality skyrockets as it already has been doing, it won't seem like such a bad thing ;) Ummm I've watched numerous blu-ray movies, and we own like 8 or 9 games, so I'd say blu-ray was a great thing for me :D

 The potential hasn't payed off so far really has it though? The games are no larger than on the 360 so far and the only game that I know of that has taken advantage of the space is HS which was 6 hours long and used all the space on uncompressed audio.

I have heard that some developers are having trouble with the size on the 360 but you can hardly claim that Blu Ray is showing its value in every game. 

 Well, Uncharted is 24GB if I remember correctly. Also, this is only the first real year of next-gen gaming (with all three consoles) and already developers are struggling with the 360. Ive been saying this before the 360 even game out, but games are constantly increasing in size; you think 3 years down the line games are still gonna fit on an 8GB DVD? I highly doubt it, Blu-Ray has deterred people from the PS3 in the short term, but in the long term can only be a positive.

Smart developers looking to make their games better will take advantage of BluRay.  The point is not that every developer absolutely must use BluRay but that the storage space is available and they don't have to feel pressured to overcompress data and cut corners to save space.

 Or they could just use more than one disk. Idiots think that the larger disk size is more useful than multiple disks, but in most cases it isnt. For example a game with giant open worlds that you traverse to multiple times may be hard to fit on one disk and would be a pain to multi disk. A linear game like Uncharted could logically be done on XBOX on most likely 2 disks(I dont think the XBOX can do 7.1 audio, which is what takes up most of the disk).

Oh yes, because using mass quantities of smaller more inferior disks makes perfect sense.

That's why we're all still using 5¼" floppy disks.  Oh wait...