I had to check the prices earlier, and though I wasn't bargan hunting, I saw bluray players about $300-400 more than HD DVD players.
HD DVD is within reach of the mass market, but bluray is not, which means unless bluray can counter, fast, it will lose.
Sony has major problems now. It can still win, but it's going to be hard for them now. All the forcing Sony loyalists to buy bluray with their PS3 may end up meanining nothing.
Paramount makes for strong support.
Unless bluray can reduce prices to HD DVD levels, it will lose after this change.
HD DVD players are right on the edge of being out there for the average Joe. If we can get an HD DVD player for about $100, even if its very low end, the war will end quickly. Though bluray could say the same, the bluray players are just generally more expensive, and not even finalized yet.
What's a few billion dollars now to win?...
But nearly all of those are PS3 owners, and about 60% of those don't know they have a bluray player.
Besides, Paramount could get a win/win situation here. With some of the must-haves they have to counter bluray exclusives, and with the cheaper cost of an HD DVD player, they could push it to victory in the war.
So they very well may be getting $150 million to push a format to victory, and not lose any sales in the long run. It could backfire, as well, if HD DVD...
Hopefully not. Dual format means expensive. If I don't want to spend money on a bluray player, I don't want to spend money on a bluray and HD DVD player in one, or extra for dual discs.
Hopefully it ends the war faster, with a heavy player exclusive to the cheap side.
When its cost against content, the war looks to be long, but when its content against content and price, it could end the war fairly swiftly.
It may be interesting to see a spike in...
"Consumers will unfortunately suffer the most, as they will be forced to support a format which is being supported by corporations instead of consumers"
Haha at the article. A report from a bluray website talks about corperations supporting HD DVD, nevermind the bluray exclusives that I KNOW people would rather play on a cheaper HD DVD player).
This is certainly a huge blow for bluray. Paramount makes a lot of very popular movies, and is a fitting cou...
Some developers need to realize that bad games won't sell.
Maybe I'm judging a little too early on their game quality, but Ninja Bream Man sounds like more of a flop than Boogie.
To cash in on the Wii, you need to have quality games, even if you're targeting only the casual gamer. Hardcore or casual, though, neitehr group is stupid.
The fact that it changed how games are played?
Graphics can only evolve so much. We have manybe one more gen of consoles that can't all produce photorealistic graphics. What then?
The Wii turned and found a way to get people without having the best possible graphics, because once you get something that looks totally real, graphics can't improve. Gameplay can, so that's what Nintendo worked on.
People who say its a Gamecube on steriods, using 6 y...
I think we may be jumping to conclusions too soon on this one.
Sounds a lot like the old logbook to me. We'll have to see, but I don't think there will be anything particularly new. There might be something totally unexpected, but I'm not going to start thinking its something amazing right now, only to be let down later.
Until we know all about it, or I get the game and see for myself, whichever comes first, I'm going to assume its nothing really special.
Very nice post.
Though you left out one argument that I love to see people make, and that is the PS2 converters. Sony fanboys like to say that Sony will win because if only a fraction of the people who have a PS2 buy a PS3, PS3 will easily win.
The argument is somewhat funny because the DS is on track to become the best selling console of all time, which would mean Nintendo would need even a smaller fraction than SOny to get their next-gen console, if the DS tre...
Old news.
Original article: http://n4g.com/News-59223.a...
And original source: http://www.gamepro.com/game...
That blog is way behind and very biased when its not taking the words from another place, anyway. Obviously, they're way behind, too, considering its 5 day old news, if somethin...
...that isn't one of them.
It's not often something I read really makes me laugh, but that did!
Didn't I see you singing the praises of Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction?
Why were you doing that for a game you absoluately hate? It has no multiplayer, so why would you say you can't wait for it, and its going to be great?
Oh right, because you're a fanboy.
Well, since the PS3 is having a single player game that lacks any multiplayer for a reason (because it's just not the experance it is suppose to have), I'll make sure to tell ...
Well, PS3 has the best lineup for next year, with really big games comming out, but they will simply be catching up. Years are just reversed for Sony and MS/Nintendo as far as major titles against smaller, but still good-selling games.
At the heart of the topic, though, new and old IPs both have their ups and downs. I don't know how many people I've heard say "I don't want *inset sequal here*, because its the same thing over again." In that way, its not good for th...
Absoluately Sony has the strongest lineup for next year, but the Wii isn't to be totally left out of the fun. It doesn't have as many major titles, but it does have games comming that will sell well.
No one can top what Sony has comming next year, unless there is a major shift to the Wii, but I don't see a shift that big happening, or unless Microsoft is keeping a lot of titles hidden, and I don't see that as a good strategy.
Sony has a very strong lineup next y...
I must ask, what is a casual gamer?
You are calling me a casual gamer, by the way, because I have a Wii.
I love it, because it is what games used to be. Think of good old Mega Man. Why was Mega Man so popular, and still popular today? Simple. No really, that's why. You could walk, jump, slide/dash, and shoot. You can pick it up, and, never having played before, play it decently well.
The best selling game of all time was Super Mario Bros. Yo...
This is fake.
First, anyone who says "Come on, man" in a message that is meant to look somewhat official loses all credibility.
Second, a company only gets money for stocks when it sells them, not just because other people buy them. Because that's the whole idea this is built on, unless Take Two is selling its stock, its totally bongus, and if it is, a lot of people are in a lot of hot water right now. I'll believe it when charged are brought against ...
2 things.
First, I know $50 a year is a lot to me, and its a lot to almost everyone I know, but its no where near as bad as, for instance, WoW. It does, however, amaze me that so many people can defend Halo with multiplayer when Goldeneye will give better multiplayer without an extra $50 investment, and multiplayer in person is so much better than mutiplayer online.
Second, does your NES still work? I boot mine up from time to time, and my SNES is still played ...
The Wii has its share of games that can compete with the other games. The PS3 looks amazing next year, admited, but the Wii doesn't look bad.
Mario Kart is pretty popular, so don't underestimate it. Animal Crossing will be a big seller, as well. Dragon Quest Swords should be to most of the world sometime next year, though how it will fare is anyone's guess. Disaster looks to be out next year, as well.
You say Final Fantasy, but the Wii is fighting back with a...
1. And the Wii is outselling the PS3 by a larger margin, while the PS3 isn't outselling the 360 by enough to catch up any time soon. Unless you want to ignore current trends and think a change can happen, you can't use current trends as a way PS3 will win.
2. Without the Emotion chip, its not backward compatible with every past game, and the Wii has games from farther back, while the 360 can play most Xbox games. Not a good reason here, either.
3. Your average ...
Where did you hear this?
I know there was some talk about Disney releasing for both formats, but I haven't heard anything about it recently.
I really wish they would...I wish they all would, actually, because there's no reason to force those who got a PS3 to get a HD DVD player, and there's no reason to force people to spend $500 for a bluray player. You lose sales both ways.
Sure, under those circumstances, HD DVD would win, and if it had always ...