Blu-Ray = Asset to PS3....Not Liability???

Atleast I've always thought of it as a liability to the success of the PS3, giving the PS3 a higher price tag and making it sell less units than it would had it originally not included it.  However, this article seems kinda interesting from an analyst ( I know analyst who care) but he actually brings up a valid point perhaps that I really had not contemplated on yet.

Wedbush Morgan Securities has issued a report on the video game industry for 2007 and beyond. Huge growth is expected, and analyst Michael Pachter believes the PS3 will ultimately win (just barely) thanks to the Blu-ray format, which he expects to defeat HD DVD.

Blu-Ray and PS3

I'm not sure if it has been posted (maybe?) But I'll post it for all that haven't read.  It's just interesting.

P.S.  I see now that Gamespot has the article on their front page also.

"These estimates do not include market shares in Japan, which we expect to be dominated by Nintendo (51% through 2011) and Sony (44%)."

I could easily see PS3 coming out on top once it's had a significant price drop, but I don't think Sony (or cows, for that matter) should bust out the champagne just yet.D0013ER

Blu-ray already won. Which means Sony Wins.

Which Ultimately means PS3 wins.

Blu-ray becomes cheaper and more widespread.

PS3 price drop within Mid-Late 2008.

MGS4.

Win 

[QUOTE="D0013ER"]I could easily see PS3 coming out on top once it's had a significant price drop, but I don't think Sony (or cows, for that matter) should bust out the champagne just yet.SpecialForcesOp

Blu-ray already won. Which means Sony Wins.

Which Ultimately means PS3 wins.

Blu-ray becomes cheaper and more widespread.

PS3 price drop within Mid-Late 2008.

MGS4.

Win

You have just got to tell me where you got that bangin' crystal ball...

I could easily see PS3 coming out on top once it's had a significant price drop, but I don't think Sony (or cows, for that matter) should bust out the champagne just yet.D0013ER

Truth. Nintendo can bust out the champagne just for selling as well as they have up to this point, but the real "war" won't be over for years.

Anyway regardless of BD as a movie format, which I won't fully embrace now because I'm still backlisting VHS' to DVD, I think it is well worth it in terms of a gaming medium. I just see BD movie functionality as a bonus. When I heard "50 GB" would be used for games, it was over. I knew I was getting one. 

I could easily see PS3 coming out on top once it's had a significant price drop, but I don't think Sony (or cows, for that matter) should bust out the champagne just yet.D0013ER

There won't be a price drop until Sony can get costs down, another year maybe. They're already losing lots of money on each console So in the next twelve months,  PS3 is not selling, is losing massive ground in Japan to Nintendo, and has no big games besides a dragon sim to challenge Halo 3.

It's **** or bust for Sony, and they're losing.

[QUOTE="SpecialForcesOp"]

[QUOTE="D0013ER"]I could easily see PS3 coming out on top once it's had a significant price drop, but I don't think Sony (or cows, for that matter) should bust out the champagne just yet.D0013ER

Blu-ray already won. Which means Sony Wins.

Which Ultimately means PS3 wins.

Blu-ray becomes cheaper and more widespread.

PS3 price drop within Mid-Late 2008.

MGS4.

Win

You have just got to tell me where you got that bangin' crystal ball...

Where else? They make the best Crystal Balls there.  

You have just got to tell me where you got that bangin' crystal ball...

SpecialForcesOp

Where else? They make the best Crystal Balls there.

NICE...

Atleast I've always thought of it as a liability to the success of the PS3, giving the PS3 a higher price tag and making it sell less units than it would had it originally not included it. However, this article seems kinda interesting from an analyst ( I know analyst who care) but he actually brings up a valid point perhaps that I really had not contemplated on yet.

Wedbush Morgan Securities has issued a report on the video game industry for 2007 and beyond. Huge growth is expected, and analyst Michael Pachter believes the PS3 will ultimately win (just barely) thanks to the Blu-ray format, which he expects to defeat HD DVD.

Blu-Ray and PS3

I'm not sure if it has been posted (maybe?) But I'll post it for all that haven't read. It's just interesting.

P.S. I see now that Gamespot has the article on their front page also.

MikeE21286

The only people that thought that having a next-gen media player built into the Playstation 3 was a bad thing were the jealous Xbox fanboys that got saddled with a last-gen DVD drive in their 360s.

Everyone else just used their head. 

I'm just really trying to bring up a point about how Blu-Ray could help out the PS3 instead of hurting it like lost of people believe. And also the fact that it would be what 36% Sony 34% Nintendo and 30% Microsoft in the USA would offset the 7% difference in Japan between Sony and Nintendo (which would mean the results would still be the same in all likelihood because 2% in America is > 7% in Japan)MikeE21286

maybe not.  i don't see the ps3 selling 78.7million.

also as history has shown us, japan goes for one system WAY more than any other. his 7% difference in japan is a bold statement. in addition we have the DS sales which would indicated that the Japanese market doesn't also have to be less significant than the US. 

[QUOTE="MikeE21286"]I'm just really trying to bring up a point about how Blu-Ray could help out the PS3 instead of hurting it like lost of people believe. And also the fact that it would be what 36% Sony 34% Nintendo and 30% Microsoft in the USA would offset the 7% difference in Japan between Sony and Nintendo (which would mean the results would still be the same in all likelihood because 2% in America is > 7% in Japan)Ontain

maybe not.  i don't see the ps3 selling 78.7million.

also as history has shown us, japan goes for one system WAY more than any other. his 7% difference in japan is a bold statement. in addition we have the DS sales which would indicated that the Japanese market doesn't also have to be less significant than the US. 

OH yeah I mean I'm not trying to analyze his predictions.  But I was just saying that 2% of the American Market constitutes for a larger amount of people than 7% of the Japanese Market (and you obviously understood that's what I meant).  Only time will tell based on how many consoles are sold in each respective market