Thread: Playstation HOME Beta...

The console maker for me was Ratchet and Clank: Future, so I've had my system for around 2 years. A little after launch, I think, maybe 6 months? Between that and the X-box my brother has (which I have a Live account on), I still tend to play the PS3 more. And I fuggin' hate MGS4, and I refuse to buy it. Games like Resistance 2, which don't really get a whole lot of attention, but in my opinion are better than... Bioshock, which I found terrible are what make the system worth playing.

And there is some degree of me sticking by the console because I dished out $500 for it.

Physical Media will always prevail, mainly because most people like to actually have something in their hands if they are paying for it. If Im paying for a movie I want to have a copy on disk. And I know Im not the only one.

Originally Posted by Anonymous D

Physical Media will always prevail, mainly because most people like to actually have something in their hands if they are paying for it. If Im paying for a movie I want to have a copy on disk. And I know Im not the only one.

This is the type of thinking that screwed Sony.

The sales just aren't there. Their product isn't viewed as a better value than rival physical media, nor is it viewed as the most cost-effective form of HD media. DVDs are still pretty good, HDTVs are just barely out of the early adopter phase, and the next wave has already struck. They blew the market.

I mean it was going to happen with or without the format war. Whoever won was going to need to render their own format obsolete to stay ahead of the curve. This is akin the old Betamax-VHS format war, except imagine duking it out knowing that TiVo would debut a year later.