Comments on: Blame Blu-Ray: How Sony’s Hubris is Killing the PS3

By: Devindra Hardawar

Devindra Hardawar — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:48:59 +0000

Unfortunately that's probably not possible since the games also run on Blu-ray discs. They've sort of dug themselves into a hole, which is especially bad now given that the 360 is $200.

By: Bookworm

Bookworm — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:34:30 +0000

From what I've heard Sony is already losing a crapload of money with the PS3, so we probably won't be seeing it cheaper until they figure out a way to manufacture it better. Maybe the option would be to remove the Blue Ray.

By: Devindra

Devindra — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 14:39:54 +0000

I agree that Blu-ray does have benefits for the PS3, mainly the massive amount of disk space, but my argument was that Sony was not thinking about games when including the format–they were thinking only about movies. We’re over a year past the PS3 launch right now, but it’s still failed to find any “system seller” titles. There are a few games like Uncharted that are excellent, but they don’t carry the hype that convince tons of consumers to purchase a PS3.

The “system seller” PS3 games, MGS 4 and Final Fantasy XIII, will start showing up in 2008. It’s just a shame the system didn’t have much to show for it in 2006/2007.

By: Dark Shroud

Dark Shroud — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 11:28:40 +0000

I know this is old but I’ll reply anyway since no one else has, I just found this site. The 2x Blu-ray drive in the PS3 cost $300 at launch, now it’s more like $200 or lower.

Blu-ray gives the PS3 an edge in a lot of areas. Game devs are actually able to cache data straight from the disc. Games like Uncharted show of the potential of Blu-ray. There are no load times what so ever. Furthermore games no longer have to be split up or downgraded in quality. Project Gotham Racing 4 did not have night & day tracks because of a space limit. The developers have the room (50gigs) to put in what they want. And it’s cheaper as well; you can fit all of the languages on one disc. And since the PS3 hardware is region-less a company can literally just press a single copy a million times over for all regions. And finally no disc swapping required. On the 360 Blue Dragon is 3 duel layer DVDs while Lost Odyssey is 4 duel layer DVDs.