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Jaffe Would Have Ditched Blu-Ray
GameDaily is reporting on comments made by God of War designer David Jaffe. In an interview with Geoff Keighley, Jaffe has stated that he believes Blue-ray should have been removed from the PS3 so that the console could be sold at a lower price point. "Jaffe didn't outright label it a mistake either, but he's the first Sony employee (to this editor's knowledge) to even question the need for Blu-ray. SCE Worldiwide Studios President Phil Harrison and other Sony executives have repeatedly stressed the importance of the Blu-ray format, not just as a next-gen movie format, but as a game disc format that provides game developers with plenty of storage space to build highly detailed game worlds without the need for multiple discs."
.. oh, Jaffe. Never mind. But working in a UK electronics store as I do I can confirm that whereas the 360 and the Wiis were damn hard to get hold of for the first few months after launch, we have loads and loads of PS3s in stock. One store, W H Smiths, is even discounting the console to £399.99. Not a good sign.
Well, as a Brit; I'm happy to use the current $->£ exchange rate to my advantage; even with shipping, it's often cheaper to buy goods from the USA; for example, I recently bought a "DS ONE" Supercard to run homebrew on my DS lite; importing it was significantly cheaper than buying it from the UK ("DS ONE" with 500mg Micro SD from US =~£37.00, the same from the UK without the Micro SD card was over £39.00). But at almost $2 to £1 that's to be expected.
It's not just electronic goods either, almost everything is cheaper in the states at the moment; hence my recent shopping spree over at thinkgeek.
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Maybe you should be more concerned about how worthless your money is becoming in general..