Will paste what i said in another thread

Many people on this site (actually I mean Sony fanboys) have gone on and on about how Blu Ray in PS3 was the right decision and that in the end the royalties would make the losses on the PS3 hardware worth it.

I find that to be a wholly unrealistic view. With so many members of the Blu Ray association I don't see how Sony could make $4bn from royalties,etc to make back the losses plus $2 or $3bn on top to result in this blu ray in PS3 having been a profitable venture for Sony and the right decision.

If Sony can make about $7bn from Blu Ray then Toshiba must be swimming from some serious money because I am pretty certain they make much much more royalties on DVD than Sony makes on Blu Ray and I doubt Blu Ray will ever be as popular as DVD has been.

I want 3 minuted of my life back, plz! k? thx

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"Simple" is the awesome word which describes this scenario. Nintendo likes simple, so they're practically a lock. The fact that they like cartridges makes it even more likely! No more noisey optical drives please.

It will however deter the more casual people who would have bought it, these are the same people who tend to hop on at the sub 200$(US) mark, where it hits what people commonly refer to as "mass market price." The problem being if mass market perception is bad, the price doesn't much matter. In the end media perception of a product will affect it's outcome very heavily. Same as market perception of the GC, bright colorful, looked like a toy, hurt it despite it being a very capable console.

I didnt understand the point of the article (wall of text).

In what way was the PS3 designed on purpose to not succeed as a gaming console??

The Wii has had 725,620 of full-on bash articles.  284,024 doesn't seem too bad (especially given this particular one is half-spin, half-bash).

"In the real world, "optical" refers to vision, or the ability to see. In the computer world, however, "optical" refers to lasers, which can "see" and read data on optical discs. These discs include CDs and DVDs, which are made up of millions of small bumps and dips. Optical drives have lasers that read these bumps and dips as ones and zeros, which the computer can understand.

Some common types of optical drives include CD-ROM, CD-RW, DVD-ROM, DVD?RW, and Blu-ray drives. CD and DVD writers, such as CD-R and DVD-R drives use a laser to both read and write data on the discs. The laser used for writing the data is much more powerful than the laser that reads the data, as it "burns" the bumps and dips into the disc."

I naturally assumed you were talking about disc based drives :p

Blu-ray is a moderate success.. I mean, it defeated HDDVD but it people haven't really adopted it as much as Sony would like.

The problem for Sony is that they are the ones who got the big loss to win the format war. However, they aren't the only company in the Blu Ray consortium.