Sony Screwed for PS3 Launch

[Kairyu]

Yep, that's the one. And it looks like there were loading times for several of the loading screens. That's pretty impressive.

[Lilith]

hahahaha talk about owned

there will be RIOTS over this one

[MottZilla]

hahahaha talk about owned

there will be RIOTS over this one

I could believe that considering there has been murder over stolen Xbox consoles. You can bet you'll see alot of PS3s going high on eBay.

[Kingboo30]

Here's an idea. I should buy a 100 PS3s and then sell them all in Europe. Expect me to return with millions of dollars. Anyone remember the 1000$ PS2s that were faulty?

[MottZilla]

Lots of the first PS2s were faulty. They lost a class action suit as I recall which means they must fix the fault parts reguardless of wether your warrenty is valid or not. By now ofcourse no one's warrenty is any good on those units. You can bet with these new Blue laser drives, there's a good chance there will be more shitty drives that fail much sooner than they should.

[Nicholas Steel]

i am yet to see a ps2 game that is multi disced and asks you to change disc during play... thus i assume there is a tech limitation to dvd's which is why blue ray is coming.... not that i would buy a ps3...

[goKi]

Blu Ray is coming for no reason other than DRM. It's a god damn joke. I hope the PS3, Blu Ray, HD-DVD and Sony all fail.

[Kingboo30]

i am yet to see a ps2 game that is multi disced and asks you to change disc during play... thus i assume there is a tech limitation to dvd's which is why blue ray is coming.... not that i would buy a ps3...

I guess you haven't seen too many games then...especially RPGS. Heck, there's even a few for Gamecube!

[Limzo]

There's a 2disc game for PS1. Abe's Exodus. One of my favourite games ever.
AND IT'S 2D!

[MottZilla]

There are many PS2 multi dvd games. The reason for a new disc format is for a higher capacity storage medium as we start to need much more room for data than before. HD-DVD and Blu-Ray are merely the most popular formats of optical discs denser than DVDs.

Sony wants to get the Blu-Ray format going for its own $$$ motivations. That is one of the reasons they include it in the PS3. Now if you want the next playstation you are also stuck with Blu-Ray, probably in hopes that you'll use that or atleast use that over HD-DVD.

Again I think the 360 went the better way, sticking with affordable and much improved DVD technology. The DVD drive in the 360 is awfully fast. I'm sure everyone wouldn't mind more space on discs, but no one wants to pay the costs for it really. Blue Laser technology is still a high priced luxury item.