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What will the 360 do now?

Since the battle of the new HD media is over, which was won by blu-ray, the 360 no longer is a lower cost buy. With a PS3 running $399.00 and a 360 running at 349.00 (i know there is one for 279.00 but that one has no hard drive) why would you get a 360? Currently they do have more tittles, but that is not going to last. The PS3 turelly, with no competition in it's way, gives you the new HD experience with the emergence of the victorious Blu-Ray. The 40 gig ps3 offers 40 gigs of hard drive, free online game play, six axis controller, built in wireless, and blu-ray. While, the $349.00 360 offers 20 gigs, no wireless, no free Internet game play, no interative controller like the Wii or the PS3 and finally no HD movie watching capability. So, you would have to buy a Blu ray player to watch HD movies. The cheapest blu ray player was $399.00 at Best Buy. So, you would have to buy a $349.00 360 + $399.00 blu ray player, which ends up costing you $748.00. But even if you go this route you still dont have blu ray on your gaming system. We all know that as games get more advanced and gain better graphics game developers would have to go to blu-ray to get that space that they would need. That is why I think the majority of game tittles will make its way over to the PS3. If the 360 is to compete they would have to cut cost even more, which is not good since the 360 already is a financial burden fon Microsoft. If they decided to offer a blu-ray player attachment they would be at the mercy of Sony. Sony could keep the price of the 360 up with the control of the pricing of their blu-ray technology.

This blu-ray victory is going to dume the 360. I believe that tittles will flock to the PS3 as the year goes by. It may even take two years, but it is going to happen. I see the Wii to continue to dominate the low cost fun family oriented gaming and I see the PS3 dominate the more advanced gaming industry. Which, leaves no market for the 360. Can you say Dreamcast repeat? People will decide to buy the PS3 to get the combination of the next generation gameing platform and for the Blu ray dvd capability. As this happens you will see more and more game developers developing games for the PS3 exclusively.