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Posted by Lloyd Parsons on 06/08/07 20:25
In article <136je7d47g4vq5f@corp.supernews.com>,
Doug Jacobs <djacobs@shell.rawbw.com> wrote:
> In alt.games.video.sony-playstation2 asjbiotek@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > Really? Must be news to all those PS3 owners who use it for just about
> > everything - music, games. movies, and even contributing processing
> > power for medical research (more than 250,000 PS3s provide free
> > computing power to the medical grid)
>
> The only reason to buy a PS3 is for the games, of which there are precious
> few - not what I'd consider a good use of $600.
>
> Movies - I have separate hardware for that.
>
> Paralell computing project - it's pretty sad that this still gets touted
> as one of the best features of a GAME CONSOLE.
>
> Give me games - good, exclusive games - and maybe we'll talk about how
> awesome the PS3 is. Right now, it's a $600 console that has maybe 2 decent
> exclusives, and is undergoing an identity crisis with regards to its online
> service.
>
> > Oh, haven't dropped in awhile but some news:
>
> > 1. Blu-ray continues to widen its sales lead over Hd-DVD
>
> Which matters why, exactly? Even if blu-ray conquers the video market,
> what exactly does that do for the PS3 as a gaming console? NOTHING. But,
> oh, it'll be a $600 movie player in a market flooded by $300 players.
> Yeah, that's a bright future.
>
> And even though HD video sales slowly increase, they still only make up
> what, 1%, compared to what DVD is still doing.
>
You have to excuse the BluRay fanboys, they do get carried away
sometimes. Right now you have two competing formats that essentially
look and sound the same, fighting over a tiny marketshare and trying to
figure out what it takes to make it all fly off the shelves.
Neither has figured it out yet.
> > 2. Matrix on Hd-dvd, which was hyped by toshiba/microsoft and was the
> > biggest hd -dvd release this year was a complete disaster, selling
> > only 13k units!
>
> Did you ever stop to think that this could be because:
> * 80% of the market doesn't even have a HDTV - so HD-DVD and Blu-Ray are
> worthless to them.
>
> * People already bought each movie separately, then bought the "ultimate
> collection" - just how many times do you expect people to purchase the
> same movies over and over again? (that goes for blu-ray titles too, you
> know.)
>
> * Most of that 20% who already own a HDTV aren't getting involved with the
> format war.
>
> So, enjoy your blu-ray movies on your under-featured, overpriced blu-ray
> player that sometimes thinks it's a game console.
>
> The rest of us are content to wait out the format war while playing
> consoles that actually have decent libraries.
The Matrix set sold quite well considering it was about $80 or more for
the disks. In sales of disks, BluRay vs HDDVD is about 52:48 or
somewhere thereabouts. Shows that neither are doing as well as some had
hoped.
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