Re: Playstation 3 Information, hardware, games discussion Part II
Because of Japan Sony knows its going to beat the 360 in total sales worldwide even if it stands a definate chance of losing in North America and Europe. We already know Sony is going to use this fact and lose a ton of money on PS3 hardware to try to establish Blue-Ray. The scary thing for Sony with Blue-Ray is how much money its current most profitable division could lose even if it "wins" the console war. The scary thing for Microsoft has little to do with this generation. What to they do if HD-DVD is dead before the next gen starts? (my guess is it will be) The fact that the console can't play true HD movies may in fact be a huge issue by then. But the bigger issue might be in what format they release games for whatever comes after the 360. Don't say download only. A 20 or 30 GB game is a lot even if you have broadband. I buy the idea that HDTVs will be well established in households by then and that HD content will be a huge issue 6 or 7 years down the road. I don't buy the idea that broadband will be in every house by then. In fact, I don't think it will be much bigger than it is right now. If you can get broadband in your house and you are the type of person who might buy a console odds are you already have it. If you can't get it in your house then you obviously you don't. I think there will still be many people without broadband 6 ot 7 years down the road. About the same as right now. Not being able to sell XBOX Live to these people is one thing. Allowing a console to ignore them totally is another.
Originally posted by USF11
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