"Sony should remove the Blu-ray drive from the PS3" (new article)

[haiku_aubade]

what an idiot

[ps3andlovinit]

Originally Posted by haiku_aubade

what an idiot

If only he was...he knows exactly what he is doing. That's why he keeps writing this garbage over and over.

Maybe M$ should remove their Xbox Live service entirely since it's $50/year and that means $250 over 5 years - making the 360 more expensive than the PS3 - and that's before you start adding in the HD-DVD, controller charger, wireless access and failure rates.

Why isn't he talking about that? If he was so concerned about cost and his customers then it would be required of him wouldn't it?

Unless he has another agenda to spread FUD against blu-ray and the PS3.

[WickyWoo]

No, he doesn't know what he's doing. He only knows things from the retail side, and has no actual knowlege of anything outside of what is taking place outside of the storefronts

He rightly sees the BR drive as the most expensive single component of the PS3 (right now, it won't be in a few years)

But fails to understand that the BR drive is there to consolidate one disc for the world, to hold those massive pre-rendered CGI cutscenes the Japanese (specifically square) love, and most importantly as a copy protection measure to stop their games from being pirated, and so they can track them back to the factory that made them. The money they save by being able to crossship their game stock, stop piracy, plus movie royalties all make it a keeper.

I have no doubt that Microsoft will at some point reduce the cost of live, or eliminate the price entirely for multiplayer games once they start generating moolah with ads in all the games and once the division is nicely in profit.

[Lord_Stewie]

he is not asking sony to actually pull this off.

if you click on the link you will see why he is saying that. however, i think blu-ray is a necessary addition for the PS3, it is what is making the console superior to all others. and plus i enjoy watching my movies on HI DEF. so i disagree with the idea of removing blu-ray.

[blurayforever143]

Ideas like these make me so angry. I swear, whoever wrote that outright idiocy must have a Wii stuck up their...

No, in all seriousness, anyone that can't afford the development costs of PS3 games and the Blu-Ray format can EASILY develop for PSTwo and still have a wide release. That's what people forget, you could easily develop for PSTwo and PSONe and have a market because the PS3 plays ALL three

However, I have a feeling studios are seeing the advantages of the Blu-Ray format. For one, how the hell do you pirate a game on Blu-Ray and actually profit? What do you do? Spend $1000 on a burner, then buy BDs at $15 and sell the game at $30 each, when people could buy the real thing for a just a little more money and no hacking or mods required?

Not only that, being able to run uncompressed textures and sound, fitting anything and everything on to one list, it's like having a whole wall to paint instead of just an 8x11 and that's what people don't understand. Games may be a business, but like art, the creators need the right tools to work with, and quite honestly, I'm pretty convinced DVD isn't the right tool at all.

More than anything though, sounds like a tool who wants to see a proven, reliable, and futureproof format fail. Why are critics and analyst hell bent on killing any sort of change and advance? SA-CD suffered the same exact fate, and so did Mini-Disc, even though both formats were WAY ahead of their time and had their unique advantages. Sit down at any demo at Circuit City, one TV playing King Kong on HD-DVD and one TV running looped store footage, the store footage looks better than the HD-DVD crap!

Blu Ray Forever, analysts can ***** and moan but give a year or two and the world will be blu all over.

[inaz4sun]

That guy is an idiot. The only reason I bought a PS3 is because it has a Blu-ray. I don't care about the games or to dumb down a system and have a piece of crap like an XBOX.

[movies3]

he must work for microsoft...lol

[outfdblue]

So what is he asking for? For us to buy the $1000 blu-ray player so we could wacth a blu-ray. One of the reason i bought a ps3 was for blu-ray capabality. It's what makes it unique yeah it's a lil pricy but after a while it will surely go down in price. How about this...the new stranglehold special edition will include the movie "hard boiled" all in one disc. is that even possible to do on a dual dvd or even an hd-dvd without sacrificing quality or anything. I think developers enjoy blu-rays because they don't really have to worry on how much they can fit on one disc even now there are talks of 200 gig blu-ray why stay in the past with hd-dvd when the future is blu-ray. Im so happy i have a ps3 blu-ray included

[Dave]

Originally Posted by haiku_aubade

what an idiot

double that

[shido]

Geez, what an idiot. Games of the future are going to use more space. Look at Blue Dragon and Halo 3 on 360 - both are multi disc games. So I don't see how anybody can argue against having blu-ray, and quite frankly, when the we start seeing all these multi disc games on 360, it just makes Sony's move look all the more smart.

[MOONPHASE]

how can you hate the ps3? i mean its cheaper then the blu-ray players out there right now plus you can put your pics from your computer, music, videos, etc. just like the psp but now you can watch them in high definition on your tv and plus it only makes sense for having the blu-ray disc player in a system that plays blu-ray games i mean that would be like putting a ps3 game in a ps1