Another negative article on the PS3 that does not use logic

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I get tired of people cutting on the fact that Sony placed a BLU-RAY drive in the PS3. If Sony would have placed a HD-DVD drive in the PS3 you would hear no complaints and the game system would have still been around the same price.. The PS3 games would not be as good of quality if a DVD-ROM disc was used. DVD’s only hold 8.5GB and with BLU-RAY games being 16GB or more either the PS3 games need to be placed on a HD-DVD disc or a BLU-RAY disc. Sony decided to go with a 50GB BLU-RAY drive which offers 20GB more then HD-DVD.

http://www.videobusiness.com/article/CA6437705.html?nid=2705


QUOTE
“I’VE OFTEN WONDERED how committed Sony Computer Entertainment chairman Ken Kutaragi was to the decision to include a Blu-ray Disc drive in every PlayStation 3 console.”

QUOTE 2
“Now, Kutaragi is leaving Sony, and his departure is being portrayed in the press as his taking the fall for the slower-than-expected start for PS3.
Maybe he is to blame. But if adding Blu-ray to PS3 wasn’t his idea, then his failure had many fathers.”
The reason some manufactories are going to combo players is because Universal Studios is still exclusive to the HD-DVD format not because of the lower priced PS3.
QUOTE number 3
“At the same time, manufacturers of stand-alone Blu-ray players are finding it hard to compete with the (relatively) lower priced PS3 console, forcing some to resort to introducing dual-format high-def players to differentiate their products, undercutting Blu-ray’s position in its battle against HD DVD.”