...for a cool $1K? Yeah, that sounds fair.

GameSpot recently ran a story in The Last Word about how Sony has announced that they will be releasing their new Blu-Ray home video format in North America on May 23. Yes, hot on the heels of the announcement by Variety that Paramount, Warner, and ... Sony Home Entertainment were reducing their UMD releases (citing poor sales).

As if the announcement weren't Earth-shattering enough, they note that coinciding with the launch of the player 8 blockbusters will be available in Blu-Ray format, including: 50 First Dates, The Fifth Element, Hitch, House of Flying Daggers, A Knight's Tale, The Last Waltz, Resident Evil: Apocalypse, & XXX.

Speculation on prices for these new Blu-Ray movies ranges from $30 to $40. While the player itself will be, as I previously mentioned, $1,000.

So, all this does is play movies. Meanwhile the PS3, as I think I have understood Ken Kutaragi to say, can save my eternal soul from everlasting torment in the pits of Hades, and yet will somehow retail for a competitive price to the Xbox 360? Hmmm...

Whatchutalkinbout Sony?