I am beginning to sense that the console wars are starting the quieting-down stage, as the PS3 gets less and less terrible, and begins to actually compete with the 360.

So what is one of the remaining things that continues to keep the console war going? Well, its another war itself... format wars. HDDVD vs BLURAY. So, I'd just thought I'd throw in my two-cents about what I think the format war looks like right now.

Right now, Its looking like Sony actually did make one majorly good decision, which was making blu-ray the main PS3 format. So far, it has outsold HDDVD 70 to 30 percent (thats a little more than a 2 to 1 ratio). Also, Blu-ray's library is more expansive, and supported by the biggest publishers, excluding Paramount because dumba** toshiba paid them to go HD-DVD only (now I will never be able to see Blades of Glory in 1080p)! Additionally, Dell is Blu-ray exclusive, offering only to place Blu-ray drive upgrades into their computers, not HDDVD. Blockbuster only rents Blu-rays. So right now, it definitely is the most popular.

However, this has the potential to change. Right now, the PS3 is the cheapest Blu-ray player on the market, however that is even still a bit pricy. Whereas, they have HDDVD players that are cheaper. What that means is that all the people who havent upgraded to HD formats yet (which is the overwhelming majority of the world), will all be making the decision as standard DVD is slowly phased out. So, Blu-ray better hope that they can manufacture a bluray-laser that is really cheap in price in the next few years, or they'll be losing lots of sales.

BTW... in a random note, Toshiba's laptops suck. dont buy them. I have one, and I went through 3 motherboards in the warranty period, and now it fried again, and the warranty is out. The best part.. the laptop is only 2.5 years old.