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Posted by GMAN on 04/14/06 14:38
In article <bl2112-0DBF75.22363713042006@news.uswest.net>, Black Locust <bl2112@hotmail.com> wrote:
>In article <yIF%f.2199$ZW3.984@dukeread04>, "~P~" <bmxtrix2005@cox.net>
>wrote:
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>> Then PS3. IMO it ALL comes back to PS3. If PS3 were HD-DVD, then I would
>> consider Blu-ray dead. If, on the other hand, PS3 is a halfway decent
>> Blu-ray player and comes in at expected pricing, then 10:1 outselling HD-DVD
>> will likely be on the low side of things.
>
>Why bet everything on the PS3? This whole PS3 = guaranteed success is
>bunch of malarky IMO. The playing field has changed substantially since
>the release of the PS2 6 years ago... Sony hasn't even been able to take
>away the portable gaming market from Nintendo(portable gaming isn't
>about "powerful hardware"...nintendo knows this, sony doesn't). Who's to
>say the juggernaut that is Microsoft isn't going to whipe the floor with
>Sony in this console war? Because of the Playstation brand name? Pff...
>That brand name hasn't done much good for the PSP so far.
>
Thats because Nintendo already saturated and cornered the portable market.
>The PS3 may or may not be a huge success, but I'm not one to buy into
>hype, which is what Sony so often thrives on. Just because the previous
>2 incarnations of the Playstation have been hugely successful, doesn't
>mean this one will. Remember Nintendo had 2 of the most successful video
>game consoles of all time in the NES and SNES, but in the blink of an
>eye they slipped to a distant second with the N64. The same thing may
>happen to Sony this time around.
The fact that the PS3 may sell eventually anywhere from 30-50 million units
worldwide makes a huge difference in getting blu ray into the home.
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