With wind in its sails from the recent defection by Warner Brothers into the Blu-ray exclusive camp, Blu-ray's future looks a lot brighter. That future, however, involves a lot of flux for consumers, as Blu-ray needs to standardize the kind of features that HD DVD had from day one.
This means that players capable of being upgraded remotely (e.g. the PS3) have the advantage, while standalone players which can't be so easily upgraded are faced with being unable to use features in the latest Blu-ray DVDs (assuming they can still play them…which remains to be seen).
Representatives at the Blu-ray booth at CES told BetaNews that the PlayStation 3 is currently the only player they would recommend, due to upcoming changes to the platform. But Pioneer, Samsung, Panasonic and Sony have all been selling standalone Blu-ray players to customers.
This serves to perpetuate the dominance of the Blu-ray market by the PS3, which accounts for 75% of all Blu-ray playback devices in existence. That suits Sony well, though I fail to see why that would bring much cheer to Blu-ray's hardware partners.
Square Enix launches Final Fantasy X 25th anniversary site, revealing new Nomura art, books, music releases, and merchandise.
Look I know VIII has its issues and all that but how on earth can the do big anniversary events with new artwork and merchandise for VII, IX and X yet VIII got sweet f*** all.
They could have given it something during its 25th anniversary yet all it got was a single Happy Anniversary post on their social media.
they should know that we are OG fans of VIII as it sold truckload as well. not as much as VII or X. I personally didn't like IX but X and VI are my personal fav.
Shadow Hearts 2 covenant is another game I love. I hope one day someone can make remake, I would be delighted
Final Fantasy VIII is great and you are always the first to defend it in the comments
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A brutal reset, a smarter story, and a return to what made it great—Mortal Kombat (2011) revived the series.
Underrated comment. I used to hate that game so much that any time my siblings asked me to play it, I just picked Hom and shut myself down mid-match.
15 years went by so fast. I remember playing through the story mode at launch.
Wow, another sour grapes HD-DVD article. Everyone loves reading these.
Just change the shark picture to a cry baby image...
Beta Blu-ray
So true, so true..
Buyer Beware!
of the other members of the bda, they can quietly add support for hddvd playback where as the ps3 cant do that with a fw update. The blue lasers are getting cheaper and with no need of a defraction plate like the first gen combo units means adding support for the "rival" format all that more appealing to those who make players.
Every ps3 sold benefits Sony and no one else...well, maybe the movie studios. Do you think pioneer gets any love from sony on ps3 sales? They make players just as good as sony and yet people dont buy them so what is their motivation to stay to one side? If it is more cost effective to sell a combo player for the same cost as a one sided player, more companies will opt for that.
The same thing happened with +/- dvdr's. It was eventually cheaper to support burning to both formats as opposed to only one. I am not saying this will save hddvd but it could stimulate the studios to be more neutral and see they only stand to make $$ no matter which format their content is available on. Combo dvd/hddvd, bluray, downloadable, It would be the same content just in more user friendly choices.
i think there will be a huge market for combo players eventually. So people can keep their hddvd calatlouge and start a blurray catalouge.
why would a ps3 owner need a combo player when they have been buying bluray all along. and i can gurantee that movies that were only hddvd will eventually end up bluray.
Why would anyone think that owning 2 different types of disks is beneficial is beyond me. This is stupid in world of movies we only need one medium and there's no room for 2. Why would I go buy a stupid HD-DVD player for 250.00 to 300.00 dollars when all it does is play movies that are on a future dead format. PS3 comes with HD out of the box. You can do so many more things on PS3 than on a HD-DVD player. Most people own 10 or less HD-DVDs or Blu-Ray movies. It's not like were watching Hd content a freaking day long. For the price the PS3 is the best. Hell even the Xbox is good for all the extras but to buy a Player just to do nothing but sit there and every once in while turn it on is ridiculous. Edit! I forgot one more special point. Have you seen those FUGLY players. They look like the VHS-Players from the 80s all retro with ugly freaking grey buttons and some of them don't even have a digital display on the front. I refuse to add anything that looks like it came out of the 80s in my living room hahaha.