Do you think Sony will ever pull ahead this generation?

[Mod_Man_Extreme]

2011: Dreamcast 2 comes out and puts everyone else out of business.

that was really funny for two reasons
1) Surprising and unexpected
2) Sega will never beat Sony or Microsoft. That is like a cold day in hell

1) Stranger things have happened.
2) Don't forget Sega used to demolish current Sony and Microsoft numbers back before the age of digital advertising.
3) I think he was just kidding.

[BigTinz]

Wow, what a troll thread.

PS3 is already far superior to 360....

[OldSchool_Boy]

Do you think Sony will ever pull ahead this generation?

yeah.with Blu-Ray being the only form of HD and Sony recieving money for every film on Blu-ray i dont see how there not already ahead.With UMD dying and now being replaced digitally.Sony is gonna be recieving evern more profit.Its only a matter of time.

[Erik_Twice]

I think the PS3 will not catch in Europe because they think 1$ = 1€. This means that the PS3 is a lot more expensive in absolute terms and that hurts quite a lot. Also it doesn't seem to catch on around here in Spain which was one of the few countries where it sold well at first.

I think it's too late so as to make a difference.

Also, Am I the only one who thinks Blu-Rays are unneded?

[fast]

Im with you Norris. With most people not owning HD tvs and internet speeds only getting faster (I am very tempted by the 100meg down Comcast is offering in my neck of the woods mid next month), high quality streaming via sites like Hulu, Apple, and Netflix, are going to circumvent the entire market. Why pay $25 for a blueray, when you can stream it for $1? Or in the case of Netflix, for a few dollars more a month. I mean I love hardcopies of movies and games, but I dont watch most movies I own more than 20 times.

[Octopod]

Wow, what a troll thread.

PS3 is already far superior to 360....

Bullshit

[elvis]

Im with you Norris. With most people not owning HD tvs and internet speeds only getting faster (I am very tempted by the 100meg down Comcast is offering in my neck of the woods mid next month), high quality streaming via sites like Hulu, Apple, and Netflix, are going to circumvent the entire market. Why pay $25 for a blueray, when you can stream it for $1? Or in the case of Netflix, for a few dollars more a month. I mean I love hardcopies of movies and games, but I dont watch most movies I own more than 20 times.

This only works in countries with decent broadband adoption and pricing (i.e.: USA, and parts of Asia).

For the rest of us suckers paying $90 a month for 50GB a month of limited quota in other parts of the world thanks to zero competition in our local area, hard copies of movies are our only option.

And yes, I realise that USA+Asia represents a much bigger market than the piss-ant countries that don't have that sort of bandwidth. I agree it makes objective sense to shift to digital content distribution, but sadly if it happens I'll be left way behind.

[elvis]

Wow, what a troll thread.

PS3 is already far superior to 360....

Bullshit

Successful troll was successful.

[jfrost]

Im with you Norris. With most people not owning HD tvs and internet speeds only getting faster (I am very tempted by the 100meg down Comcast is offering in my neck of the woods mid next month), high quality streaming via sites like Hulu, Apple, and Netflix, are going to circumvent the entire market. Why pay $25 for a blueray, when you can stream it for $1? Or in the case of Netflix, for a few dollars more a month. I mean I love hardcopies of movies and games, but I dont watch most movies I own more than 20 times.

This only works in countries with decent broadband adoption and pricing (i.e.: USA, and parts of Asia).

For the rest of us suckers paying $90 a month for 50GB a month of limited quota in other parts of the world thanks to zero competition in our local area, hard copies of movies are our only option.

And yes, I realise that USA+Asia represents a much bigger market than the piss-ant countries that don't have that sort of bandwidth. I agree it makes objective sense to shift to digital content distribution, but sadly if it happens I'll be left way behind.

I still pay kind of a hefty sum for my ridiculous 300k connection.

[the7k]

Im with you Norris. With most people not owning HD tvs and internet speeds only getting faster (I am very tempted by the 100meg down Comcast is offering in my neck of the woods mid next month), high quality streaming via sites like Hulu, Apple, and Netflix, are going to circumvent the entire market. Why pay $25 for a blueray, when you can stream it for $1? Or in the case of Netflix, for a few dollars more a month. I mean I love hardcopies of movies and games, but I dont watch most movies I own more than 20 times.

Once Time Warner finally gets around to instituting bandwidth caps in a way that doesn't scare the average customer, every other cable provider will do the same. Then I'm sure we'll all start singing different tunes about digital distribution.