Good point forgot to mention that download services will make the formats obselete!!!
| tmbh said: I have to agree with HappySqurrie!!
Everyone can afford a Wii (even if they can't get hold of one) and it appeals to a bigger customer base. PS3 certainly has a huge fanbase from PS2 owners wanting to upgrade but with its current price and lack of games its gonna struggle. I dont expect to see a price drop for a while, cheaper manufacturing costs will help Sony loose less money and a price cut could be here by end of the year in time for xmas but I would'nt be suprised if it didnt come for another 6 months after that!! This is also a format war. Betamax was far superior to VHS but look what happened. Blu-Ray vs HD-DVD could go the same way (I would champion Blu-Ray over HD-DVD basically because it has more storage capacity) But what is the difference between Blu-Ray and HD-DVD? Both formats will play films in the SAME 1080p resolution with uncompressed 5.1 sound (lets not niggle over compression formats etc) the point is they are the same!! There is no difference!! Its a silly war!! Betamax and VHS had big quality / resolution differences, VHS was inferior but the point is that there was a clear difference between the formats so consumers knew what they were getting, there was a clear choice. Same with consoles Wii works on any TV and is affordablebut to take advantage of PS3/XBOX 360 you need to spend hundreds or thousands upgrading your TV for HD and buying a new surround processor for true HD surround sound etc. And who wants a 1st generation Blu-Ray / HD-DVD drive NOT ME!! There is also much boasting of Blu-Ray software sales trampling HD-DVD but hardware sales are much closer. I predict a draw/stalemate dual players will be the best choice!! Console wars will become a more even playground, I dont know who will win outright, the point is the lead of victorous side will be significantly less than what Sony has had with its last two consoles. |
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Blue3 said:
lol you cant be serious. Even Nintendo fanboys should by now have accepted the fact that the reason for N64 failure was the dumb decision to use cartridges, Nintendos greed = cartridges = no 3rd party support = N64 failure . While PS2 games stand toe to toe with anything on xbox or GC, no sane person can say the same about wii games and PS3 or 360 games. Why even buy a wii if a PS2 is half the price and has same quality games ? wont there be more people willing to spend $49 on a PS2 when $99 on a wii if its all about price ?     |
Cartriges had a lot to do with failure of N64, but there were also a lot more reasons behind 3rd parties abandoning N64. I agree that there would be people willing to buy PS2 in 2011, but PS2 will not have decent support at that time. Even the retailers don't sell it anymore at that time. 3rd party will eventually drop its support and so will Sony. If they want to gain sales for PS3, they have to focus on PS3 and moving existing PS2 owners towards PS3. Anyway, the console business does not work in the way, that they support old consoles. New ones have to be made that console manufacturers keeps selling consoles, because when certain penetration is reached, sales will drop because everyone that want's one, has one. The market can expand only to a certain point, unless something really new and interesting is brought to market, buzz, DDR, singstar and guitar hero are perfect examples. But they can't expand the same old forever without bringing new base to expand to market.
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Ok, for the last time, downloadable movies will NOT become the standard for high definition films in the time it would take for one of the existing HD disc formats to become a standard. There will be an increased adoption of HDTVs in the next year or so and eventually HDTVs will be all that are left (to buy). So if your TV dies you will HAVE to get an HDTV to replace it. This increase in HDTV adoption will cause an increase in HD movies. HD Movies ARE HUGE! That is why they are stored on HD-DVD or Blu-ray discs. Their capacities are measured in double digit gigabytes! At the current rate high speed internet adoption. There will still be a substantial part of the worlds population that are limited to cable modem speeds (as many are limited by slow dsl or even dial up at present). This speed (while fast - around 2.5 to 5 mbps) is still too slow to make downloading a movie more convenient than a trip to the video store. Just try starting to download a movie on the 360 right before you want watch it. The sun will come up before its done!
| theshoe23 said: Ok, for the last time, downloadable movies will NOT become the standard for high definition films in the time it would take for one of the existing HD disc formats to become a standard. There will be an increased adoption of HDTVs in the next year or so and eventually HDTVs will be all that are left (to buy). So if your TV dies you will HAVE to get an HDTV to replace it. This increase in HDTV adoption will cause an increase in HD movies. HD Movies ARE HUGE! That is why they are stored on HD-DVD or Blu-ray discs. Their capacities are measured in double digit gigabytes! At the current rate high speed internet adoption. There will still be a substantial part of the worlds population that are limited to cable modem speeds (as many are limited by slow dsl or even dial up at present). This speed (while fast - around 2.5 to 5 mbps) is still too slow to make downloading a movie more convenient than a trip to the video store. Just try starting to download a movie on the 360 right before you want watch it. The sun will come up before its done! |
I think by downloadable content they usually mean downloadable and streaming video. But you're right about that connection speeds will not be at the level for years, that HD requires, unless data comes with high compression and is decompressed "on the run". But if streaming video can hit the market even on SD, it will still eat HD-video discs sales. Basically every TV channel have internet broadcasts even today, the problem is that you need a computer to watch them and people are not used to watch TV from computer. But if you can use hub which is connected to TV, it's a lot different thing. Oh, and not to mention HD broadcast through satellite, and someday even terrestial, for example Canal+ have its kiosk, through satellite, a pay per view service, which uses "streaming data" and you can watch any movie you like, whenever you like.
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Nintendo games sell only on Nintendo system.
The cable companies have plenty of bandwidth for HD streaming and are doing it already. They can stream hundreds if not thousands of times faster than the internet since they are using the local network.
| theshoe23 said: Ok, for the last time, downloadable movies will NOT become the standard for high definition films in the time it would take for one of the existing HD disc formats to become a standard. There will be an increased adoption of HDTVs in the next year or so and eventually HDTVs will be all that are left (to buy). So if your TV dies you will HAVE to get an HDTV to replace it. This increase in HDTV adoption will cause an increase in HD movies. HD Movies ARE HUGE! That is why they are stored on HD-DVD or Blu-ray discs. Their capacities are measured in double digit gigabytes! At the current rate high speed internet adoption. There will still be a substantial part of the worlds population that are limited to cable modem speeds (as many are limited by slow dsl or even dial up at present). This speed (while fast - around 2.5 to 5 mbps) is still too slow to make downloading a movie more convenient than a trip to the video store. Just try starting to download a movie on the 360 right before you want watch it. The sun will come up before its done! |
The current government is completely clueless in regards to broadband (amongst other things). And with talks of a national broadband network only recently hitting the political limelight, the situation doesn’t look like changing for another 4-5 years. Basically, I don’t see “downloadable services” being successful here in Aus for quite some time.
While DLC won't kill physical media, expect it to start taking a healthy bite out of the marketplace.
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I think Digital Distro will overtake the formats, with me I either torrent movies and TV shows or I use Netflix and rip the DVDs to my hard drive, I haven't bought a DVD in almost two years, no reason to at this point
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| Ray007 said: Not sure about the rest of the world, but your comments sure ring true in Australia. We’ve just recently had some adoption of ADSL2+ through a number of smaller players (wholesale resellers). But few people are lucky enough to have access to those speeds. Most current plans here are limited to a connection speed of 8Mbps and download quotas in the range of 10-50GB/month (which won’t get you too far for HD streaming). Higher quotas exist, but the costs are insane – my plan is AU$60/month and has a 20GB limit. The current government is completely clueless in regards to broadband (amongst other things). And with talks of a national broadband network only recently hitting the political limelight, the situation doesn’t look like changing for another 4-5 years. Basically, I don’t see “downloadable services” being successful here in Aus for quite some time. |
You have download quotas? That sucks...
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