eurogamer.net — Sony's Phil Harrison has admitted that the company "overreached" with its decision to include a Blu-ray drive in PlayStation 3. His comment was in direct reference to the company's cutting of shipments to the US and Japan and the delay of PS3 in other territories until March 2007.
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keyratNov 6, 2006
the bottom line is come launch day there will be about 400,000 blu-ray players installed in US homes. I seriously doubt they've even sold 50,000 HD-DVD players.
bigfknceeNov 6, 2006
@ saahmedFaces?????????? lmao
glitch82Nov 6, 2006
I hate to break it to everyone, but the deciding factor for HD vs BR will not be due to the consoles, but the set top boxes that mainstream buyers will want for their homes.Only time will tell, but if Sony's Blu Ray format turns out to be more expensive and less available, it will only be favored by the richest families in America as opposed to those buying your bargain LCD TV.If Sony itself has a hard time getting these blue laser diodes will it be any easier for OEMs to put them in their set top players over the next couple of years? Can Blu Ray's price point for a standard set top player match that of HD-DVD or is it going to be significantly more?
computerdudesNov 6, 2006
My kids love their PS2. But between the price and the DRM crap that Sony pulled last year, they will not get a PS3. I have not purchased a Sony product (other than PS2 games) in 12 months. They lost my business for sure with the DRM they put on their music CDs.
ejp1082Nov 7, 2006
The winner? Standard DVD, which consumers will use long into the future because they're cheaper, more convenient, not part of a format war, and look brilliant on HDTV's, robbing these new formats of most of their steam.
Closed AccountNov 7, 2006
"But that's the price you pay for adopting brand new, leading-edge technologies that will be future proof"What? Future proof? Maybe by "future" he means his tenure at Sony, i.e., 2-3 years hence?
lunarworksNov 7, 2006
Regarding the PS2 HDD's "success" in Japan: Japan has always had a soft spot for gadgets, or didn't you notice?But in any case, the PS2 HDD's success there was very niche, much like the N64's 64DD. Very, very few games were released for it.The only drive add-ons that had any sort of recognizable success that I recall were the Famicom Disk System (which actually fizzled after a few years, replaced with higher capacity cartridges) and the PC Engine CD-ROM (TurboGrafx-CD), which had quite a bit of support.
nintendo5Nov 7, 2006
Even in the fraction of homes with HDTV, likely half will mainly use PayPerView, and then there's the competing standard (HD-DVD), and the $600 price. Most of the people who would have rushed to get a PS3 will wait a couple of years longer (on standards and prices), and by then XBox720 will be on the horizon.