What sony is doing is pretty obvious, since they make alot of stuff that needs media in every shape and form, they "invent" new media that fits it.
PSP = UMD, PSP + Sony Phones (thats alot) + Sony Professional stuff = Memory Sticks. Professional Broadcast still uses Beta.
Why use and pay royalties when you can create your own?
And minidisc actually won the format battle, they beat the DCC tape (you do remember that), only to be beaten to a bloody pulp by Napster and MP3 players.
Blu-Ray was proposed to the DVD forum but rejected over the Toshiba format, because HD-DVD is cheaper to make. The interesting question is, how much cheaper will it be when there is 25 million PS3s out there with games on Blu-Ray discs?
And why pick Blu-Ray over plain DVD for a next gen console? well consider this:
The PS-ONE was a 4MB machine with a 640MB media format, storage factor 160
The PS2 was 32MB machine with a 9GB media format, storage factor 280
The XBOX was a 64MB machine with a 9GB media format, storage factor 140
The 360 is a 512MB machine with a 9GB media, storage factor 18
The PS3 is a 512MB machine with a 50GB media, storage factor 94
Lets just for arguments sake say that most XBOX games took up 2GB space, most of that would be used for graphic assets i would guess.
This is on a machine with only 64MB memory, the 360 has 8 times the memory & 7 times less storage, and the need for higher res textures and more assets is evident.
Sony clearly chose the right format, its just damn expensive right now, but everyone knows that the best price for a product is where the production line can follow the demand, and in the PS3 case it will sell out at launch, it will be hard to get one for quite some time. After that period it will drop in price, Capitalism 101
And about the Betamax vs VHS war, give this a read.
"Read this, and the next time someone tells you that, of course, Betamax was superior to VHS, you can tell them that they are wrong. It's an urban myth." http://technology.guardian.co.uk/online/comment/st ory/0,12449,881780,00.html
Basicly the VHS won because... it had more storage:-)
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What sony is doing is pretty obvious, since they make alot of stuff that needs media in every shape and form, they "invent" new media that fits it.
t ory/0,12449,881780,00.html :-)
PSP = UMD, PSP + Sony Phones (thats alot) + Sony Professional stuff = Memory Sticks. Professional Broadcast still uses Beta.
Why use and pay royalties when you can create your own?
And minidisc actually won the format battle, they beat the DCC tape (you do remember that), only to be beaten to a bloody pulp by Napster and MP3 players.
Blu-Ray was proposed to the DVD forum but rejected over the Toshiba format, because HD-DVD is cheaper to make. The interesting question is, how much cheaper will it be when there is 25 million PS3s out there with games on Blu-Ray discs?
And why pick Blu-Ray over plain DVD for a next gen console? well consider this:
The PS-ONE was a 4MB machine with a 640MB media format, storage factor 160
The PS2 was 32MB machine with a 9GB media format, storage factor 280
The XBOX was a 64MB machine with a 9GB media format, storage factor 140
The 360 is a 512MB machine with a 9GB media, storage factor 18
The PS3 is a 512MB machine with a 50GB media, storage factor 94
Lets just for arguments sake say that most XBOX games took up 2GB space, most of that would be used for graphic assets i would guess.
This is on a machine with only 64MB memory, the 360 has 8 times the memory & 7 times less storage, and the need for higher res textures and more assets is evident.
Sony clearly chose the right format, its just damn expensive right now, but everyone knows that the best price for a product is where the production line can follow the demand, and in the PS3 case it will sell out at launch, it will be hard to get one for quite some time. After that period it will drop in price, Capitalism 101
And about the Betamax vs VHS war, give this a read.
"Read this, and the next time someone tells you that, of course, Betamax was superior to VHS, you can tell them that they are wrong. It's an urban myth."
http://technology.guardian.co.uk/online/comment/s
Basicly the VHS won because... it had more storage