I too think it's a bit early to give the trophy to HD-DVD. There are a lot of companies making hybrid players that may keep both formats viable. Sony's really just starting to get Blu Ray out there and it is a superior format so we'll see what happens...

However, you do have to keep Beta Max in mind when talking about this, so assuming Sony does lose the format war, those Blu Ray discs may end up being too expensive to keep producing. And with most cross-platform games most likely never exceeding the 360's DVD 9 capacity, I think Sony may abandon the format and switch to producing DVD 9 games, which the PS3 is still capable of using. The bad thing about all of this is that whether they switch to DVD 9 or not, Sony will have to keep putting the Blu Ray drives in all of the PS3's since there are games now that use it. This will keep the system's cost high and therefore, the price probably won't drop anytime soon. That's gonna put the 360 on a pretty level playing field with the PS3, and it would certainly make things interesting.

Bottom line, it wasn't a good move on Sony's part...a little too risky for my taste. But who knows, it may pay off in the end.

sophospeare

You’re right I never thought of that. Sony will be in a really bad situation if Blu-ray fails. The only logical thing to do would be to take out the function on it’s future PS3s to decrease the cost… but dam..you’re right, those new ones will not be able to play the blu-ray games that are out now. They would have to put some sort of disclaimer on the new PS3s stating they cannot play blu-ray games. Messy messy messy, I doubt the consumer’s are going to even try to attempt to deal with that.

P.s. Does anybody know how much how much the blu-ray function adds to the PS3s price?

MICROSOFT IS GREEDY! gmastersexay

Probably help Sony a ton, because they would finally be able to release a non Blu-Ray version of the PS3 and sell it at a reasonable price.AfterShafter