MS Snub Blu Ray

[Who]

oh yeah...

 

[CarMadMike]

Ive seen that before CD :P

 

I already have a ps3, yet im still choosing to buy it for my 360, why?, as id probably never stop playing it, and if i get it on the ps3 id probably stop playing the 360 for a while, and with ms' high prices for live! i feel abliged to use it

[ShadowGT]

Hehe we PS3'ers get our online for free :D No way in hell i'd ever pay $79 a year to play online.

[YeOldeTDUMan]

Well a few thoughts from me ...

 

surely MS will have to adopt Blue-Ray or whatever the 'next' disc format is for it's next console system? I guess the PS3 will be using Blue-Rays for some of it's games? GT5? and surely with that capacity increase MS will have to consider something similar for it's next console.

 

As to the film issue ... I can't see film downloads being a big thing at the moment ... 'most' people like to have collections ... be it physical collections of CDs/DVDs on their shelves or huge collections of music on their generic mp3 player ... so to cope with film downloads, especially HD quality you'll need VERY big storage ... and then to the other point Diablo made ... there just isn't the bandwidth in a lot of countries ... in the UK I think the quickest public ISP is about 20M ... but that's rare ... I think Korea (could be wrong there) has 100M these days and that's the sort of level you'd need, but most people would want instant play rather than waiting 'hours' for the film to download before they can play it ... also I'd be curious to know the figures for people actually downloading films off the current XBL service.

 

As to the 360/PS3 issue that this thread then went onto ... ALL games have always been associated with one machine rather than another, Elite although came out on lots of machines in the end will always be remembered as being a BBC Micro game ... I would personally associate GTA with the Playstation ... BUT I'll be buying it on the 360 ... I'm 'traditionally' (in terms of recent gaming history) a Sony boy, bought a PS1 at launch and same for PS2 ... then my PS2 finally died on me and I'd heard from a mate who had a 360 (well he tends to buy EVERY console that comes out) about some game called TDU ... and so here I am ... thanks to my PS2 dying and the PS3 being delayed from it's original launch date ... but I will buy a PS3 at some point ... or the same reason as Diablo ... GT5 (not the prologue version) ... oh and I'll want a blue-ray player

 

As to the casual / hard-core gamer ... I do sort of agree that the 360 is definitely set-up and marketed toward the more 'hard-core' ... the Wii has the sillyness and envolvement factor for the family and pretty much everyone I know who has one isn't a 'gamer' and this is this first console in a lot of cases ... the PS3 has the whole blue-ray thing and the Playstation is a far more developed brand than the xbox

 

However there are 2 people in the UK that I think do a good job at promoting the machine ... a certain Christopher Moyles and a Vernon Kay ... however they do often talk about the 360 in a spoddy semi hard-core gamer way

 

I don't think MS can do much about changing peoples perception on the machine tho ... it's like trying to convice people that Skodas are good solid cars!

[Nodz86]

yes GTA started on PlayStation

 

I thought GTA originally started on the PC then went onto the original Playstation. (Nugget perhaps :p)

 

As to the film issue ... I can't see film downloads being a big thing at the moment ... 'most' people like to have collections ... be it physical collections of CDs/DVDs on their shelves or huge collections of music on their generic mp3 player ... so to cope with film downloads, especially HD quality you'll need VERY big storageI agree with you there about wanting a physical copy to have a collection. Also with having a collection if your HDD was to corupt you still have it where as if you download you wouldn't.

 

I agree with you there about wanting a physical copy to have a collection. Also with having a collection if your HDD was to corupt you still have it where as if you download you wouldn't.

 

... and then to the other point Diablo made ... there just isn't the bandwidth in a lot of countries ... in the UK I think the quickest public ISP is about 20M ... but that's rare ... I think Korea (could be wrong there) has 100M these days and that's the sort of level you'd need, but most people would want instant play rather than waiting 'hours' for the film to download before they can play it ... also I'd be curious to know the figures for people actually downloading films off the current XBL service.!

 

Well listening to Newsbeat today people who download tv series and movies are having fines on there bill from there ISP from going over there download limits.

 

As to the 360/PS3 issue that this thread then went onto ... ALL games have always been associated with one machine rather than another, Elite although came out on lots of machines in the end will always be remembered as being a BBC Micro game ... I would personally associate GTA with the Playstation ... BUT I'll be buying it on the 360 ... I'm 'traditionally' (in terms of recent gaming history) a Sony boy, bought a PS1 at launch and same for PS2 ... then my PS2 finally died on me and I'd heard from a mate who had a 360 (well he tends to buy EVERY console that comes out) about some game called TDU ... and so here I am ... thanks to my PS2 dying and the PS3 being delayed from it's original launch date ... but I will buy a PS3 at some point ... or the same reason as Diablo ... GT5 (not the prologue version) ... oh and I'll want a blue-ray player.......!

 

As you I had a PS1 then PS2 but as the PS3 took ages and was delayed ened up getting a 360 but I will be getting a PS3 as sson as the release either GT5 and the getaway or the 80gb sku that was ment to replace the 60gb sku.

 

However there are 2 people in the UK that I think do a good job at promoting the machine ... a certain Christopher Moyles and a Vernon Kay ... however they do often talk about the 360 in a spoddy semi hard-core gamer way

 

But they only ever talk about one game COD 4 and the online so even tho they are promoting it its still biased to the hardcore gamer.

 

I don't think MS can do much about changing peoples perception on the machine tho ... it's like trying to convice people that Skodas are good solid cars!

 

SKODA'S ARE GOOD CARS!!!! My dads had a Favourite (after he wrote off his escort), then a Fabia and now a Felicia and they have caused him hardly any trouble at all compared to other cars and lets be honest they are just rebadged VW's now.

[Eudemon]

I meant console wise Nodz.