[News] The Death of HD-DVD

Plarom, I cannot forgive you for using M$. That acronym is fucking old and annoying.

Anyway, the fact of the matter is that yes, it will increase PS3 sales as the people waiting on the fence about BluRay go and find the cheapest player. However, I don't see it increasing GAME sales very much, because the logic people have that "Oh they'll buy it for the movies but they'll start playing games" doesn't hold much water. If someone doesn't currently play video games, it's highly unlikely they'll bypass buying movies for $25 and skip straight to the $60 games that Sony would need them to buy to start making money with the games.

The lack of HD-DVD does make the choice easier for consumers, but I really don't see the market being that big for it yet. It really only matters when you have an HDTV, and what a lot of the console geeks forget is that the average Joe Consumer doesn't have an HDTV yet. They're getting cheaper, but the market required for massive DVD-style penetration (the people who will pay no more than, I'd say, $100 for a player) isn't being wooed yet.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

This reminds me of something that's bothered me about the internet for years now: Since when does selling consoles at a loss count as winning? Other than incessant fanboys who have nothing better to do than bitch about a big number going up or down each week, who actually seriously thinks that having a bigger console sales number matters?

Bigger SOFTWARE sales. I won't believe the PS3 is a success until I see the dominance of the software sales charts that 360 and Wii currently share.

There's nowhere I can't reach.