[News] The Death of HD-DVD

Originally Posted by Megalith

Why the fuck is this in the video game section?

I love how worked up 'lith gets whenever this topic gets mentioned. He's all butthurt because his preferred format got its ass handed to it. Adorable.

I'm with Skills, though. I don't know how much of an effect this will have on game sales, though console sales will probably tilt a little higher on PS3s end with people purchasing the cheaper/better/can play games if you want to option for BR.

It's also mentioned that not a lot of people are rocking the HD TVs yet, but the market is certainly going in that direction. Don't forget that all Sat/Cable in Canada will be going high def by, I believe it's 2012 or 2015. I'm sure the US has the same sort of thing in practice. So that's certainly an incentive for people to start moving over sooner rather than later. And let's be fair, people who are buying new TVs are being wooed by flat screen LCD or Plasma HD televisions. No, not everyone has an HD TV kicking around their house, but I can see it being the norm within a few years. Early adopters are hopping on BR now. I've got a whole whopping 6 BRs, and will replace probably a dozen or so of my old collection of DVDs with BR (I don't see the point in needing them in high def unless they're gorgeously shot flicks. I really don't see the point in owning, say, Clerks in BR for instance). But I'll probably buy a lot of newer flicks in the BR format.

So yeah, it'll sell more PS3s, and I'm glad the market decided this early which format to push so there wasn't some long prolonged fight that fucked half the population. But until Sony actually starts producing more games that I care to play, I'm not exactly popping champagne for the triple yet.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Mo0

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.

Uh. I don't think anyone here was talking about the PS3 winning anything there, Lunch Box. Settle down. I think the argument has been about how Blu Ray toppled HD DVDs.

There's nowhere I can't reach.