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Posted by GMAN on 06/09/07 17:18
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.
>
>> 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.)
Waaaa, next you are going to complain that these new fangled memory styx are
replacing your floppy drive. i mean according to you, that is all the storage
you need.
games are already getting too big to fit on DVD, I hope you enjoy swapping
disks with Halo3 on your 360.
>
>* 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.
>
You meant the few dozen 360 titles and handfull of old XBOX titles that play
on it, or the 5000+ library of PS1,PS2, and PS3 games?
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