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The Far Side of Tech: Blame Blu-Ray: How Sony’s Hubris is Killing the PS3

  • Dark Shroud · 1 year ago
    I know this is old but I'll reply anyway since no one else has, I just found this site. The 2x Blu-ray drive in the PS3 cost $300 at launch, now it's more like $200 or lower.

    Blu-ray gives the PS3 an edge in a lot of areas. Game devs are actually able to cache data straight from the disc. Games like Uncharted show of the potential of Blu-ray. There are no load times what so ever. Furthermore games no longer have to be split up or downgraded in quality. Project Gotham Racing 4 did not have night & day tracks because of a space limit. The developers have the room (50gigs) to put in what they want. And it’s cheaper as well; you can fit all of the languages on one disc. And since the PS3 hardware is region-less a company can literally just press a single copy a million times over for all regions. And finally no disc swapping required. On the 360 Blue Dragon is 3 duel layer DVDs while Lost Odyssey is 4 duel layer DVDs.
  • Devindra · 1 year ago
    I agree that Blu-ray does have benefits for the PS3, mainly the massive amount of disk space, but my argument was that Sony was not thinking about games when including the format--they were thinking only about movies. We're over a year past the PS3 launch right now, but it's still failed to find any "system seller" titles. There are a few games like Uncharted that are excellent, but they don't carry the hype that convince tons of consumers to purchase a PS3.

    The "system seller" PS3 games, MGS 4 and Final Fantasy XIII, will start showing up in 2008. It's just a shame the system didn't have much to show for it in 2006/2007.
  • Bookworm · 10 months ago
    From what I've heard Sony is already losing a crapload of money with the PS3, so we probably won't be seeing it cheaper until they figure out a way to manufacture it better. Maybe the option would be to remove the Blue Ray.
  • Devindra Hardawar · 10 months ago
    Unfortunately that's probably not possible since the games also run on Blu-ray discs. They've sort of dug themselves into a hole, which is especially bad now given that the 360 is $200.