Re: Michael Bay's format war conspiracy theory: it's a Microsoft fix

"...whats funny about your rants..." --theprof00

MY rants? That actually brought a smile to my face. You're supporting a conspiracy theory about as wild as suggesting that the President blew up the Twin Towers, and you say I'M ranting?

Anyway, prof00, I don't mean to argue with you. If you believe it, you believe it, and I'm not trying to change your mind. I'm only suggesting that the alternative is far more plausible to me.

John

i think msoft would put as much money in hd dvd as possible just to screw over sony, lol. They can afford it , and sony isnt the sony of old! The ps3 is selling horrible! Sony pushed the game industry into bluray, and most game makers say it cost to much to develop for the ps3! i think the ps3 is gonna be a failure(so far its getn its but kicked) and will be the downfall of blu ray.

Scionguy05,

Although the PS3 is selling horribly, the XBox 360 followed just as horrible a sale's curve during it's first 4 quarters - actually worse, considering that the PS3 has been around for only 3 quarters in much of the world but has already sold 5.59 million units to date. The XBox 360 sold 5.9 million units in its first year. The WII continues to kick both their butts.

As far as the PS3 being the death blow to Blu-ray, I'm not sure how getting 5.59 million Blu-ray players into homes is going to accomplish that.

Skyhawk, I would LOVE to know what the game sales statistics are for the PS3 and not from some bluray created web site either. The PS3 has been out for one full year now. I can guarantee you that game sales for the XBOX360 are far higher after one year on the market than the PS3's after one year.

The bottom line is the PS3 is a great game console but it still has zero games. None. Like you said 5.59 million consoles world wide and they're giving away movies with the console instead of games. What does that tell you about the state of the PS3? In fact, what does that tell you about Sonys priorities?

Looks like they're focusing their resources more on bluray than they are PS3 games.

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Looks like they're focusing their resources more on bluray than they are PS3 games.

You could very well be right. It would seem that their inclusion of free movie(s) in the PS3 box rather than games addresses polls that showed only 20% of PS3 owners "knew of/or used" their PS3 to watch a Blu-ray movie. It's my theory that they would rather use the PS3 now to increase consumer awareness of Blu-ray as a strategy to push the dominance of the format and worry about games later. Of course, I could be wrong.

Edit: My son just told me you're wrong and that the PS3 actually has at least two games

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[Post edited by Skyhawk on Dec 6, 2007]

Haha...tell him I stand corrected

One game that I do look forward to on the PS3, and I'm amazed they haven't released it yet because it is such a popular game, is Socom. Socom was so much fun online on the PS2. My brother and I would play that game for hours and hours like we were teenagers. The Socom games did so well for Sony that I'm amazed they haven't released a PS3 version.

THAT would sell really well.

EDIT: Spelling.

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[Post edited by Falcon01 on Dec 6, 2007]

The problem with comparing the PS3 to the 360 as far as sales in their first years. Is that the 360 had the luxury of coming out first and didn't have any competition. So while it may have struggled at first there were no other game systems fighting for next-gen market share. By the time the PS3 was released 360 already had one Killer app (Gears of War) and another one on the way (Halo 3). Plus you had the Wii coming out of left field and surprising everyone with a innovative game experience. Then of course at launch the PS3 was priced out of everyone's range at 600 dollars. The PS3 has finally started to gain traction now that there's a model in the 400 dollar range. I'm not saying it won't do better but I have a hard time seeing it move out of third place.

As far as this theory goes, I think it's easy for some people to believe because for so many people Microsoft=evil. I've never really understood how anything Microsoft has ever done is worse then any other big corporation. I guess because they won't make Windows open source Bill Gates must be the devil himself.

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[Post edited by Movielover316 on Dec 6, 2007]