Bah...Blue Ray and HD DVD are both kinda useless. NO way in hell I'm upgrading all my DVDs. With VHS, there was at least 20 years of VHS before the next format came out? and there was also Laserdisk, and we all know how THAT went. It's only been about...what, 10 or so, maybe less until it became really mainstream. Too soon to try to push a new format that dosn't really offer much to the average person.

Wonder if teh Second Coming will be in High Definition.

"Black Onyx World" I think of the casing of teh BS3.

They've LOST their Never-Existant Advertising Skills. Just think teh game to push BS3's this "Holiday Season". Unreal Tournament 3 is now 2/1/08!

ZOMG do we get's steryotypicle anoying add's represented by squrriles and dust balls?

I'll stick with my HDDVD xD.

"well if i had a 360, i would wait for the same multi platform titles cept, i would have halo which is okay, gears, which is ok. but not much else, mass effect, bioshock? ok. but seriously. they got nothing on sony. "

Paragraph of the day!

oh, and wait, wasn't there some serious content left out of some racing games on the 360, like night time an weather conditions because a regular old dvd couldn't store it all. this will become a bigger issue in 2 years when they finally get a better grip on how to make next gen games.. you want.. dvd was a mistake for the competition. it wont push all that resolution that well in the end..

what people don't get too, is that the 360 is nothing but pc port games, games that would of come out on the pc if it wasn't for the 360, most of it is not innovative all, same old crap we've been playing for years now on the pc.

then i get into these stupid arguments with the gamestop people about how they claim the ps3 is hard to code for, when its just something new and next gen. So they try to port their lame ass pc windows code to the ps3 and it chokes because its last gen bs, works on the 360 because it to is last gen processor tech and works great with that windows based code. but honestly the 360 hasn't shown us anything that a pc couldn't do.

ps3 has shown us things a pc could not do... 360 is nothing but a half glorified windows gaming platform. ps3 is truly next gen. and they are still learning how to program it..

oh yeah, and i can't wait for infamous by sucker punch as well, another great exclusive ps3 title..

I have played my friend's 360, but man i hate the controller. yes there are good games on the 360, good windows type pc games that i would of bought for my pc if i hadnt jumped onto the mac for a safer virus free spyware free, secure unix based os that is more stable for music production that i do. vista is a joke and killed off all my interest in anything microsoft. the 360 is a joke, 40% hardware failure rate is nothing to scoff at.

i mean honestly, the 360 is a pc, the ps3 is beyond what a pc is, blue ray, and cell. vs multicore power pc that is much like the duo core intels but way more stripped down. oh ahahah and out dated dvd. once blue ray discs drop in price to 19 bucks like they will for sure in a year or 2, no one will buy dvds anymore... just a matter of time. blue ray is an even bigger step from dvd, than dvd was from laser disc and vhs etc..

most people see hd on some crappy cheapo plasma or lcd. i love hd crt, especially the sony xbr crt. no other display touches this quality of picture and real colors and real black...

hefix93

LOL, keep telling yourself that. I already sold my $600 movie player 5 months ago. As for PC ports, how many are on the PS3?

Hexfix: Did you know that the PS2's failure rate was just as bad, if not worse than the 360? It also went on to be the best of that generation, if not the best now.

And like I said, have you PLAYED all those games you said were better exclusives? Like, the ones that aren't out yet?

All you PS3 fanboys are crazy! So the fuck what if 360 games get ported to PC. I bought a 360 for $400 bucks. How much money would you need to bring 360 quality to the PC? Thats right STFU!

Also Hexfix, you are idiotic.

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Dude, PS3 is done allready!

Let the THREAD DIE. WE GOT A RABID ONE!

Here we go again....dude just dont post, you have no clue!

"ps2 sucked when it launched to"

980,000 consoles sold in the first 48 hours? Yeah, what a terrible start.

^ Point taken, True Dat!

man, i am so unaffected by this advertising. i know what it does and i don't need a commercial to tell me what it does. i can't hate on them for trying to sell them however they can, i'm not saying they are doing the best job, i'm just saying.

"no, i think i see farther into the future is all."

YOU HAVE THE GIFT SIR!!! YOU ARE THE CHOSEN ONE TO BRING ALL CONSOLES TOGETHER!! YOU HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE! The Alliance has been assembled as you have requested your majesty. Truly your insight and wisdom supercede all of us unworthy infidels.

"Lord Hexfix, will you tell us the grand tale of how you rescued the kingdom of Consolia!? Tell us of your grand Blu ray that slew the Gates dragon!!"

"Yes Lord hexfix please!"

"LONG LIVE THE BLUEST RAY OF THEM ALL!"

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You mean the phantom console?

its too early to use blue ray as a marketing point. It cannot compete with the DVD yet, since it just doesnt have enough advantages, mostly due to the price of the player, and the lack of extra usefulness that immense cost gets you.
As for gaming, it will remain mostly underutilized for years to come, id be willing to bet. The simple reasoning is, that the 360 has a massive install base, compared to the modest numbers of the ps3. Hence, most developers want to make their games for the 360 as well, and thus the ps3 will be limited to having some higher res textures, or more of them, or whatever. No new content, or amazingness or anything. Of course, it has its exclusives... which its losing left right and center. I doubt that having a blue ray player will be important for at least another 2 or 3 years, if ever.

sony is just all screwed up about what is going on. I think they should focus on the games, and sell separate blu-ray attachment players the way microsoft did with the HD players, that way if someone wants to play games.... oh hell with it... what games? Sony is in a hole.

@hefix93 people on these gaming blogs can be pretty reactionary. There not really fans of sony since sony has it's fair share of idiot executives and the PSN doesn't really cater to the gaming nerd as much. Performance wise PSN is fince you can play pretty large lag free games but XBL has a lot of community features that gaming nerds like, they can see what games there little friends are playing and compare gamerscores which are like street cred in the gaming nerd community. Plus sometimes microsoft gives bloggers free stuff like the duffel bag full of Halo 3 stuff.

Real gamers didnt care about digital audio when the PS2 came out...

I care about blu-ray. Not blu-ray movies, I only have one of those. Not Talladega Nights though that movie is awesome. I care about Blu-ray games. A game with 25GB worth of textures, music, extras you name it. It truly is a next-gen console. I am glad that people are enjoying their 360 as much as they are. But I am really excited about what the PS3 is going to do in the near future.

Oh and the PS3 is not going anywhere. 3D0, Gamecube, neither one of those had the brand recognition or third party support that the PS3 has. I know by now it's cliche to say but MGS4 and FFXIII and FFXIII Versus alone will move units in massive numbers.

@Riser Glen: You beat me to it; I wasn’t gonna post a picture (props for the Prison Break GIF, but instead something like...

*reads post* *sees picture of Kaz* *facepalms*

Look, I care about Blu-ray like a father for his child (well, okay, maybe not quite in that way). It was one of the reasons I bought a PS3 — in fact, I own several Blu-ray titles (including 300, Planet Earth, and seasons 1 and 2 of Weeds), and they all look fantastic on my HDTV, even though it’s only a 26" LCD (I can only imagine how they look on a 50" 1080p plasma or something). And while it makes perfect business sense for Sony to promote all of the features that its console possesses, including its high-def capabilities, they have to be very careful about how they do it. They should only market the Blu-ray feature set in specific spots that are tailored for video enthusiasts — like at Best Buy’s Magnolia Home Theater or something. I mean, the PS3 is the cheapest Blu-ray player around, especially now that the $400 40 GB model has been confirmed, and that’s important to videophiles. But they need to focus on the games. That’s what it’s all about.

@qwerty: No, Sony could definitely not afford to buy Microsoft twice — probably not even once.

When is Sony going to realise that real gamers just don't care about Blu-ray?

I have to take issue with this. As evinced by glitched, among others, it’s not fair to make blanket statements like that (in fact, it’s irresponsible to do so as a journalist, no matter how much any mention of Blu-ray may irritate you). As I said earlier, I’m a gamer — I consider myself a pretty hardcore gamer, actually — and Blu-ray was a difference-maker in my decision to purchase a PS3. Obviously, that wasn’t only because of the movies and such available on Blu-ray — as Taicho mentioned, Sony was thinking ahead when they decided to make Blu-ray the centerpiece of their console because of its storage capacity for games. I’ve read that a single level in Killzone 2 takes up around 2 GB of data — last time I checked, that was over a fifth of a dual-layer DVD-ROM, which is, of course, the storage format for the Xbox 360 and the Wii. Though Blu-ray’s immense storage capacity advantage hasn’t reared its head in a big way as of yet (except for a few instances here and there), it seems obvious that it’s only a matter of time before we start to see that happening. And real gamers do care about that.

zomg teh jebuses?! h4x!