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Sony\'s CFO Masaru Kato commented, \'It is no longer thinkable to have a huge initial financial investment like that of the PS3.\'

Sony\'s PS3 was pretty slow out of the gate with its $599 price tag, but Sony had little choice in terms of pricing due to the heavy costs surrounding Blu-ray and the Cell processor. The

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TL;DR - Blue Ray sells no where near their expectations and that was one of the main goals of PS3 - to win the format war. And it did that with sheer numbers of sold PS3 units, while in the same time Toshiba sold regular players. today, figures show that initial growth of blue ray sales (read PS3 consumers initially bought some BR movies) was just that - initial. Today, majority of people have no desire what-so-ever to own a BR player and BR is going down the drain as far as sony is concerned (as an investment it fails to be even 10% of that of VHS).

[Tom]

Another i-d-i-o-t. Ya it was a format war. You can get a bluray for $50 now you i-d-i-o-t. Going down the drain eh? Ya that's why my video store almost has more bluray than dvd. What you go to the same i-d-i-o-t school as tride? ffs.

And what the fuck is with the word censor, so fuck is ok but i-d-i-o-t isn't? Makes real sense.

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I am yet to meet a person that has a BR player, I don't think I will meet a person with BR burner.

My local super market has more kinds of books for sale than toilet paper. I guess people buy more books.

[Sabot]

Every high end home cinema system is blu ray / blu ray 3D.
Not knowing someone that doesn't have BD system isn't exactly accurate in your sweeping statement.
All new high end laptops also have BD as standard and naturaly several MILLION PS3 owners have it out the box.
For the record i have 4 in various formats and yes they are cheap as a dvd player but for a start you can't watch 3D movies on any 3D tv without a 3D BD player. Plus what is the point of owning a full HD TV if you can't watch HD movies in 1920x1080P?? BD is the only format that allows that. HD on xbox and the old rival to BD has been dead for years!!!
Your living in the dark ages

[Tom]

LOL, ok then.

It's pretty clear here that some of us here have absolutely no clue what quality BR brings to the table. A DVD doesn't even hold a candle to the quality of picture of BR. Then the media is also scratch resistent. I don't know what the heck they make BR out of but none of my collection has suffered any scratches and with little kids around the house swapping them in and out of the BR and my htpc it's pretty amazing. I haven't touched a DVD for movies since I got my PS3 really.

[Tom]

these morons haven't even restored the store and other areas of PS3 network. Basically the barebones is up and that's it. Like wtf! 30 days or whatever to get your free downloads? Pfft. Boy Sony is really proving to the world how totally fucking incompetent they are. Guarantee ya, I ain't getting a PS4. LOL! Ya come buy a PS4 and then we will strip features away from your box! Ya! Don't you want one!

[RayzorBlue]

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