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SCEA President Hypes PS3 Shelf Life Over 360
kukyfrope writes "Sony Computer Entertainment America President Kaz Hirai recently talked to San Jose Mercury News about their upcoming console. His argument is that, by waiting to deliver Blu-Ray and performance hardware, even at a high price, the PS3 will be in greater standing than the Xbox 360 in the long run. Hirai also takes a cop-out on the amount of hype surrounding the PS3 hardware performance saying, 'It's all about the games. We all know that [...] This is a console that is here for the long haul and is not on a five-year cycle. Microsoft is coming out with an HD-DVD accessory for HD movies as an add-on only a year after they launched: that is exactly the kind of thing we don't want to do.'"
There's a shelf full of them at my local game store. THe shortages thing was true for a month or so due to supply issues, but there haven't been any shortages for months.
I still have more fans than freaks. WTF is wrong with you people?
Considering that GTA:SA already filled an entire DVD on current-gen consoles...
No, it really didn't. Admittedly, the only Xbox size I could find was a PAL version, but it was a whopping 2.85 GB. The NTSC version of GTA III was a whopping 733MB (even the Dreamcast GD-ROM could have accommodated that on one disc) and GTA:VC was 1.20GB. Relatively few games even made it past the first layer of DVD. It's no wonder that Microsoft didn't feel a next-gen disc drive was necessary for the 360.
The difference is that those add-ons were *required* to play games specifically designed for them. In this case the HD-DVD add-on is soley for watching HD-DVD movies, games will still be DVD based. In the end all this really is is a way for people who own an Xbox 360 to get a cheap (compared to a standalone) HD-DVD player. Not buying it will not hinder game playing at all.
- "Scientia non habet inimicum nisp ignorantem"