Blu-ray Not A Burden For Sony’s PS3
Sony’s Phil Harrison once again makes a rather arrogant statement, claiming that the Blu-ray drive isn’t a burden for the PS3. In an interview with GamePro he says
“There’s this sort of misunderstanding that the Blu-ray disc player for movies is somehow burdening the console with unnecessary cost. That is completely not true”
As you may remember, Sony’s reason for the European PS3 delay was, (drum rolls), The Blu-ray drive! Here is the exact quote from the press statement:
The revision of the launch date in the SCEE territories is caused by the delay in the mass production schedule of the blue laser diode within the Sony Group, thus affecting the timely procurement of key components to be utilised in PLAYSTATION 3.
He does say “Blu-ray disc player for movies”, but a Blu-ray player is for movies and games, so claiming that it has no impact on the PS3 cost and production is, in fact, a straight up lie.
September 27th, 2006 at 10:41 pm
“There’s this sort of misunderstanding that the Blu-ray disc player for movies is somehow burdening the console with unnecessary cost. That is completely not true
September 27th, 2006 at 10:47 pm
Well at least for $600 you do get the ability to play games in the future written to take advantage of Blu-rays capacity but not HD-DVD from MS. Sony wins this round I’d have to say. MS should have waited until they could have offered something similar.
September 27th, 2006 at 10:50 pm
Anuban: I disagree, If you buy a PS3, you automatically chose a Blu-ray drive, witht eh 360, you have a choice.
I bought my 360 without care for either blu-ray or hd-dvd, I wish there was a $400 ps3 with out the blu-ray drive…
September 27th, 2006 at 11:06 pm
Nin fanboi stories & posts
September 28th, 2006 at 12:36 am
doom the troll!!!
September 28th, 2006 at 11:30 pm
Doom’s post: Haha!
Here’s a fact for you:
Nobody even mentioned Nintendo once in the comments until you stumbled in.
I know you love the PS3 and all, but could you please give it a rest? You’re giving everyone headaches.
September 29th, 2006 at 4:17 am
rofl what a noob.
“Nin fanboi stories & posts” – doom
i guess any news that isn’t in sony’s favour is Nin fanboy news. isn’t that right doom?