Sony drops PS3 price to $499, Microsoft expected to follow suit

[samoth]

it's not really that much samoth my good man, at least for the PS3 considering it has blueray capabilities and a blueray player in itself is like upwards of a thousand dollars, so it's actually pretty cheap if you consider that.

though who knows if blueray is even going to catch on, it's not looking like it at the moment.

A Blueray's just a fancy DVD, right? I don't have a $2,000 HD television or anything, so this HD war it totally immaterial to me.

The whole movies-in-video games thing really made me laugh and never even think about playing another one again.

 

[FriendlyCanadian]

A Blueray's just a fancy DVD, right? I don't have a $2,000 HD television or anything, so this HD war it totally immaterial to me.

The whole movies-in-video games thing really made me laugh and never even think about playing another one again.

yeah, but you can use it as a DVD player.. er blueray player so it's a video game system and a video player..

yeah pretty much just fancy higher quality..

can hold more information on the discs.. so instead of TV Series being like four DVD's they could be like one blueray or some shit.

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

it's not really that much samoth my good man, at least for the PS3 considering it has blueray capabilities and a blueray player in itself is like upwards of a thousand dollars, so it's actually pretty cheap if you consider that.

though who knows if blueray is even going to catch on, it's not looking like it at the moment.

Most industry reports still have it leading by at least a 2-1 margin. Although a Chinese manufacturer is supposedly preparing to sell a $100 HD-DVD player here in the States. That could change things pretty fast no matter how superior Blu Ray is. The manufacturing costs need to come down fast. Although now that Sony is supposedly already profiting from the PS3 after retooling a Blu Ray diode in the system's drive, this may be sooner than later. .

 

[samoth]

yeah, but you can use it as a DVD player.. er blueray player so it's a video game system and a video player..

yeah pretty much just fancy higher quality..

can hold more information on the discs.. so instead of TV Series being like four DVD's they could be like one blueray or some shit.

I guess I just can't understand why that really matters, why companies and video game manufacturers have to make huge fights over it, and why it should necessitate spending thousands of dollars when there's nothing bloody wrong with DVD's in the first place.

Man, I sound old or something.

 

[FriendlyCanadian]

I guess I just can't understand why that really matters, why companies and video game manufacturers have to make huge fights over it, and why it should necessitate spending thousands of dollars when there's nothing bloody wrong with DVD's in the first place.

Man, I sound old or something.

nah I'm 22 and I totally agree with you, I was just stating that 500 dollar wasn't a bad deal, if you wanted a blueray player... even just for that the PS3 is a pretty decent price, plus they lose money on all their systems anyways.

but I agree.. it's pretty fucking retarded..

 

[samoth]

nah I'm 22 and I totally agree with you, I was just stating that 500 dollar wasn't a bad deal, if you wanted a blueray player... even just for that the PS3 is a pretty decent price, plus they lose money on all their systems anyways.

but I agree.. it's pretty fucking retarded..

I totally grew up in the golden age of video games (hmm... maybe siver age?), so all this graphic obfuscation is nothing more than a marketing ploy to me. It seems that first-person shooters have a large share of the market, and RPG's are now partially interactive movies. I dunno... it just seems unappealing. And mixing it with some other technology cheapens it for me, too. What, they aren't good enough unless they throw some other function into the thing?

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

I guess I just can't understand why that really matters, why companies and video game manufacturers have to make huge fights over it, and why it should necessitate spending thousands of dollars when there's nothing bloody wrong with DVD's in the first place.

Man, I sound old or something.

No, not that old, considering there are probably people out there saying "There was nothing wrong with VHS in the first place." If you're a tech geek like me, it's pretty impressive what these systems can do now. The PS3 has pretty much dominated the "Folding@Home" scene for Stanford U, outFLOPping practically every PC on the market.

 

[samoth]

No, not that old, considering there are probably people out there saying "There was nothing wrong with VHS in the first place." If you're a tech geek like me, it's pretty impressive what these systems can do now. The PS3 has pretty much dominated the "Folding@Home" scene for Stanford U, outFLOPping practically every PC on the market.

But the analogy VHSVD:VD:HD does not hold here. This ain't some new technology. It's like revamping the VHS to hold more tape inside the cartridge.

If it was actually new technology and not a media-pushed variation of what we already have, I would be all for it.

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

I totally grew up in the golden age of video games (hmm... maybe siver age?), so all this graphic obfuscation is nothing more than a marketing ploy to me. It seems that first-person shooters have a large share of the market, and RPG's are now partially interactive movies. I dunno... it just seems unappealing. And mixing it with some other technology cheapens it for me, too. What, they aren't good enough unless they throw some other function into the thing?

I agree that sadly the gaming industry is also seccumbing to the financial end of things over the creative, as many others seem to already have.
However, sometimes I wonder...will kids these days look back 15-20 yrs from now saying "I remember when games were simple, where you plugged the thing in the wall and held a controller, and could move around on the tv screen....I miss that simplicity."

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

But the analogy VHSVD:VD:HD does not hold here. This ain't some new technology. It's like revamping the VHS to hold more tape inside the cartridge.

...and better tape . In any case and rate of progression, this HD era will gradually replace standard definition as the new, well, standard. The FCC is switching over to digital in the near future, and when that happens, HDTV's will be pretty affordable. As to what will replace the "disc" format (which won't be any time soon...Popular Mechanics recently showcased "holographic" discs that can hold more data than the largest of current PC hard drives)...who knows. Hopefully it's something scratch/scuff-resistant.