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Posted by WinField on 01/20/07 17:51
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=31406
Sony more interested in Blu-Ray than console war
Analysts' surprise conclusion
By Nick Farrell: Tuesday 02 May 2006, 13:03
SONY is prepared to hand over ground to Microsoft's XBox for a couple of
years if it means that it gets Blu-Ray established.
Mystic musers from Wedbush Morgan Securities, Michael Pachter and Edward
Woo, say that Microsoft's XBox 360 will rule the roost in the console
market for the next two years. They think that Sony is more interested
in winning the HD format wars than the console battle.
In a report into the future of the console industry the authors say
that, in the long term, the console wars will not be won by the
manufacturer who has the most videogame titles per console, but rather,
it will be determined by consumers' willingness to adopt new high
definition DVD formats.
The report implies what we have always said, that Sony is only using its
PS3 as a method of hooking people into the Blu-Ray format.
Pachter and Woo said that after a year or two the PS3 will win the
console battle, but only if it wins the HD Format wars first.
More here. µ
(http://next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2866&Itemid=2)
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Doug Jacobs wrote:
> In alt.video.dvd Peter <pete.ivesAll_stRESS@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>
>
>>But aren't those stats based around the fact that the PS3 sales, which
>>includes a blu-ray player, are also included? And seeing as some of
>>those stats are taken from the Japanese market, a predominantly Sony
>>market, then of course Blu-Ray is appearing to do well.
>
>
> Actually, PS3 sales have stalled in Japan as well. No one wants a $600
> game console with no games - even if it IS the cheapest blu-ray playeer
> out there.
>
>
>>However, other reports are saying that worldwide the PS3 is faltering
>>where it is on sale. If that is so, then Sony is in for a pretty hard
>>time over the next 12 months, and Blu-Ray along with it. If they had
>>done a purely, stand alone player survey then perhaps we may have seen a
>>different outlook.
>
>
> I get the impression that Sony put more of their effort into marketing the
> PS3 as a blu-ray player that can play games, instead of as a game console
> that can play blu-ray movies. Not many are going to be interested in a HD
> movie format right now, and even fewer are going to be interested in
> participating in a stupid format war - especially when neither format
> offers anything substanially different than the other.
.... massive midget SNIP
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